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Post by ccoppenbarger on Nov 17, 2005 15:37:55 GMT -5
The amazon.co.uk site lists the new book as Hood(Raven King Trilogy) and as a Children's Book. Could be something to compete with Harry Potter possibly? I'm doing more searching on it.
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Post by aelfric on Nov 29, 2005 8:12:11 GMT -5
The synopsis on Amazon says it is about a Welsh lord and his struggle to defend his tribal lands from the Normans - sounds like a very different take on the largely Saxon legend of Robin hood! Very much looking forward to it all the same.
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Post by cube on Nov 30, 2005 11:02:49 GMT -5
just looking atthe noticeboard is the last picture - a storyboard of a film of Albion  ??  ( I havn't read all this post in case someone has mentioned this before) |
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Post by Gwalchmai on Nov 30, 2005 12:32:10 GMT -5
It looks like its running more along the lines of comic format than a storyboard for a movie.
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Post by blixbrunner on Dec 5, 2005 20:57:09 GMT -5
Hi all. Here is the text... ....doesn't actually say anything about being Welsh. Enjoy.
blix
Synopsis
Bran ap Brychan becomes lord of his tribe's ancient lands when his father is killed by a Norman border patrol, serving the new overlord, King William. Norman Earl Falkes d'Braose then lays claim to Bran's ancestral home and Bran is severely wounded in the resulting clash. He is nursed to health by an old seeress in the wildwood, who captivates him with stories of the mythical Raven King and Bran decides to assume the identity of this Dark Enchanter and Lord of the Forest. Using the forest as his base, he will wage a subversive war against the Norman usurpers, raiding under cover of darkness. As his soldiers grow ever more fearful, Earl Braose grows steadily more determined to rid himself of this uncanny apparition, and thus a battle of wits and courage begins.
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Post by aelfric on Dec 6, 2005 3:48:43 GMT -5
Hi all. Here is the text... ....doesn't actually say anything about being Welsh. Enjoy. blix True, but 'Bran ap Brychan' is a very Welsh name and certainly not an English one. I just assume from that that he'll be Welsh! Very much looking forward to this sereis. |
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Post by chrystalized on Dec 8, 2005 1:52:10 GMT -5
wow sounds really good i dont think i can wait for it
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Post by Dred on Dec 8, 2005 13:46:02 GMT -5
This is most intriguing. I can't wait to read it.
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Post by blixbrunner on Jan 12, 2006 18:24:36 GMT -5
HERE IS THE STUFF!!Stephen R. Lawhead has sold The King Raven trilogy to young adult novel publishers Atom. The new series is a re-imagining of the Robin Hood legend but thankfully there's not a Costner in sight - Lawhead is taking the legend back to it's roots. "What's the point in rewriting a version largely cobbled together during Victorian times and flogged by Hollywood?" he said. "You know: a fairly tame, swashbuckling tale that takes place in the high Middle Ages, involving a lot of aristocrats swanning around a balmy Sherwood Forest full of Merry Men singing Hey-nonny. I think we've had enough of men in tights. "I'm much more interested in where the legend must have started. I suggest a 'real' Robin Hood who was likely born in the devastating clash between two completely different cultures – British and Norman, following the invasion of 1066. The root of the story as I wish to tell it is darker, more earthy and elemental." The trilogy starts in July 2006 with Lord of the Forest. www.thealienonline.net/ao_030.asp?tid=1&scid=2&iid=2975I think this sounds great. Maybe the same kind of reworking and 'rootsing' that he did with the Pendragons. Hope so!
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Post by kg00ds on Jan 12, 2006 21:06:55 GMT -5
I can wait!  Oops, look at me I'm drooling. |
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Post by Bard Child on Jan 12, 2006 22:35:13 GMT -5
YESH!
*dances* I have new book to look forward to this year
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Post by Dred on Jan 13, 2006 10:05:16 GMT -5
Thanks for the update. It should be another great piece of work by our leader. I'm eagerly awaiting the release as well.
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Post by blixbrunner on Jan 19, 2006 16:34:04 GMT -5
AND HERE IS SOME MORE FOR YOU ALL (loving being the bearer of good news!)
Synopsis
Bestselling author of historical fantasy, Stephen Lawhead, returns with a new trilogy set in 11th-century Britain. Recapturing the spirit of contemporary tales, from minstrel songs and plays, and recreating this historical period with brilliant insight and imagination, the King Raven Trilogy promises to be one of the most exciting series of recent years. Bran's father, King Brychan of the Welsh Marches, has been murdered by the power-hungry Normans. Bran undertakes a long and dangerous journey to London in order to report the outrage, but his case is thrown out of court and the land he should have inherited is confiscated. Back home, he finds himself a fugitive. His only choice, it seems, is to flee - to avoid the fate suffered by his father. But Bran is taken in by a strange and enigmatic forest dweller - a woman who makes Bran realise that the sword is not the only weapon against injustice.
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Post by dinadan on Jan 19, 2006 20:55:12 GMT -5
I must say, I'm not sure that the tale has Celtic roots (except maybe in a very basic way...the way that, say, the "quest" story is supposedly Celtic in origin); I was afraid he'd Celticize something that is largely Saxon in origin. Makes me just a bit sad.
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Post by kg00ds on Jan 20, 2006 3:14:10 GMT -5
Well, Dinadan I am sure he didn't mess it up too much |
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