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Post by Hnefi on Mar 17, 2005 16:39:43 GMT -5
Hi all
I'm new to this forum but have been reading SRL for thirteen years.
If you cast your minds back to first reading Grail did anyone else think SRL had left it open ended for another book in the series (I don't mean Avalon here). What I mean is Grail ends with Llanlleweg exiled back to Ireland but in book three of Arthur he is back in the High Kings inner circle of friends, but we never find out how he was redeemed. At the time I thought this was to get another book in, did anyone else wonder the same?
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Post by calixar on Mar 18, 2005 0:37:07 GMT -5
Yes.
Mr Lawhead... if you see this... it occurs to me that if the publisher is not up for another Pendragon book you could work out something with Ark, like the Celtic Legends CD you wrote the short stories for.
I'm sure Jeff and Brian would be open to the idea of an exclusive story set in the Pendragon Cycle...
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Post by cowgirl on May 2, 2005 21:00:51 GMT -5
i just started reading Arthur, so I cant reall answer this question.
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Post by pink3elephant on May 3, 2005 12:56:41 GMT -5
i did wonder when llenleawg(spelling?) was reedemed, but i didn't think of another book, but now that i think about it, i would love to read another book!
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Post by dgan on May 5, 2005 2:03:19 GMT -5
I'm torn. Of course, I would love any further book within the Pendragon story. However, at the same time, I would hate for SRL to force anything. Wegy's redemption seems hardly enough material with which to write an entirely new book, meaning SRL would have to weave in yet another twist to the tale. I would just hate for him to try to create something that just isn't there, and its kind of nice to leave some parts of the story to the reader's imagination. I hate having everything spelled out for me. That said, if he wrote it, would I read it? Absolutely!!  |
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Post by dinadan on May 5, 2005 7:05:19 GMT -5
Maybe he should just try to get in on the next Legends short story anthology, and go that route with it. A short story wouldn't be nearly the kind of comittment that I novel would be, but would effectively tie up this "loose end."
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Post by dgan on May 5, 2005 23:33:42 GMT -5
A short story wouldn't be nearly the kind of comittment that I novel would be, but would effectively tie up this "loose end." That would be cool. Has SRL had any short stories published in the past? |
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Post by calixar on May 6, 2005 11:04:57 GMT -5
That would be cool. Has SRL had any short stories published in the past? The only ones I'm aware of were in a CD booklet from Ark Music ( www.arkmusic.com/NewFiles/discography.html ). The title of the CD was Music of Celtic Legends: The Bard and the Warrior and had two Lawhead short stories in it; The Dream of Taliesin, and cúCulainn's Last Battle. |
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Post by Tegid on May 6, 2005 12:31:20 GMT -5
The only ones I'm aware of were in a CD booklet from Ark Music ( www.arkmusic.com/NewFiles/discography.html ). The title of the CD was Music of Celtic Legends: The Bard and the Warrior and had two Lawhead short stories in it; The Dream of Taliesin, and cúCulainn's Last Battle. Although Ark Music lists this Windham Hill recording in the discography, it is no longer available from them. Ark has arranged to make a re-recorded version of it available, titled The Dream of Taliesin, in CD clamshell packaging with no insert. For the two SRL short stories, you could find a copy of Music of Celtic Legends: The Bard and the Warrior in the secondary market (eBay and the like). |
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Post by dgan on May 7, 2005 3:24:47 GMT -5
Wow, I had no idea. Were they pretty good?
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Post by calixar on May 7, 2005 10:11:13 GMT -5
Wow, I had no idea. Were they pretty good? Well, they are extremely short. They definitely left me wanting more. |
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Post by myrddinemrys on Nov 4, 2005 22:46:15 GMT -5
If you piece together a timeline (which I've been thinking of putting one together lately), it will show that the events in Grail took place (if I remember right) before the Aneirin section of Arthur. Grail is narrated by someone else, and it's just an exploration as to why the Grail was moved to Avalon. Lawhead doesn't tell things chronologically, which I believe is a literary feat performed by one of the greats, who had also received much, much criticism over, J.R.R. Tolkien.
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Post by aelfric on Nov 29, 2005 7:15:16 GMT -5
From what I remember most of the events in ‘Pendragon’ followed on from the Bedwyr section of ‘Arthur’ and ‘Grail’ followed on immediately from Pendragon. Now ‘Grail’ ends with Llanlleweg being exiled and in about as much disgrace as it would be possible for a warrior to be in, yet by the Aneirin section of ‘Arthur’ he is restored to the high kings favour as his champion. So at some point between the end of ‘Grail’ and the beginning of Aneirin, Llanlleweg is able to recover from the utter disgrace of his betrayal of Arthur and his friends and climb right to the top of the kings favour. I would like to know how!
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Post by kg00ds on Dec 26, 2005 15:58:21 GMT -5
I would gladly read another book in the Pendragon series.
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Post by waterhouseemrys on Feb 7, 2006 21:57:10 GMT -5
I am so glad people feel the same way. I think a short yet satisfactory story would remedy the loose ends that Lawhead left us holding after Grail. I know most people wish to have a sequel to the Song of Albion l, and if asked, I would cheer of the thought. But, Pendragon begs for explanations. Not only is Llen. brought back into Arthur's company, but in the book, Arthur, he is described and shown as Arthur's champion (see the escourting of the knights into the Rotunda)! What! I'm all about the grace offered to him, but how and what can he do to redemy such a falling out to be given such a welcoming? I guess it is grace just like the Prodigal Son The sinner comes back not just welcomed but also celebrated and redemed. Sorry, I did not mean to answer my own question or do an interpretation of Grail now. I think I'll stop typing on this matter now before things get crazy. Silly, English teacher. |
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