The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (Collins Voyager)

by Alan Garner | Teens | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 000712788x Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingPlum-crazywing of Brighouse, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on 8/2/2009
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Journal Entry 1 by wingPlum-crazywing from Brighouse, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on Sunday, August 2, 2009
When Colin and Susan are pursued by eerie creatures across Alderley Edge, they are saved by the Wizard. He takes them into the caves of Fundindelve, where he watches over the enchanted sleep of one hundred and forty knights. But the heart of the magic that binds them - Firefrost, also known as the Weirdstone of Brisingamen - has been lost. The Wizard has been searching for the stone for more than 100 years, but the forces of evil are closing in, determined to possess and destroy its special power. Colin and Susan realise at last that they are the key to the Weirdstone's return. But how can two children defeat the Morrigan and her deadly brood?

Journal Entry 2 by wingPlum-crazywing from Brighouse, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on Sunday, August 2, 2009
I loved this book as a youngster so when I spotted it in a charity shop for only 20p there was no way it was going to escape my clutches....

Journal Entry 3 by wingPlum-crazywing at Brighouse, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on Wednesday, December 11, 2019
If you had asked me a week or two ago which books I loved from my childhood this would be way up at the top of the list as it had made such a strong impression on me. How bizarre that the only thing I found familiar was the fact there was a wizard & a sleeping army as in all honesty nothing about the book resonated with me! As a result, reading it again after nigh on 50 years, I can't help but wonder if I ever had actually read it all! It certainly it can't have been one I read over & over, so its strange that it left so much of an impact on me....or maybe it isn't considering the mythic theme is one I seem to have always loved.

As a youngster I adored "The Chronicles of Narnia" & later "The Hobbit" etc & "The Weirdstone of Brisingamen" is most definitely of the same ilk. Along with wizards & dwarves we encounter the morthbrood, svarts, stromkarls & the names have a Middle-earthish twang too, Durathor, Fenodyree & places such as Fundindelve. Of course the Good v Evil motif is there as is the fact that a fairly arduous journey takes place...& for me it was rather arduous as I found myself skimming over passages I found hard to depict & to my mind, dragged onto long - I can't imagine that I relished this trek as a child.

A book that I wish I'd left as left as a happy memory, albeit a wrongly remembered one...







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