Is any one here a fan of the DragonKeeper Chronicles by Donita K. Paul? I got the first one, "DragonSpell", at the Christian Store yesterday, and I can't stop reading it! It is great! It doesn't seem to be well known but I wonder why, it is extremely good. So far there are 3 books. "DragonSpell", "DragonQuest", and "DragonKnight". The 4th one, "DragonFire", comes out in about two months and the one after that, "DragonLight", comes out next year. If you haven't heard of them, and would like to check them out, here is the official website.
http://www.dragonkeeper.us/index.shtml
No, I haven't ever read or heard of them (Man, how many books are hidden of this genre, and many of them are a bunch of crap). But, as soon as I check the site and take a good review, perhaps, if they are worthy, will be added to my list. And I hope you take a good view to some of them. YOU SHOULD DO IT
Welcome to Epic Earth!
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Attention to all of you, in this forum...
I welcome you to Epic Earth
I, Maese Delta, have something special I'd like to share with you.
Well, first things first, if you really want to earn your love for such kind of stories, you'll do well to not only read the books, but also watch the movies, and more important, read the epics that inspired them.
As you might guess, this will be a long thread, but I have no time yet to explain all I want to tell you. But, I have something urgent now.
Here I go: I am totally an Epic Lover, it's the literary and film genre by excelence. I am writing a story of such a genre, and I've spent 6 years in the making, though I still keep on the work. My first and greatest inspiration was The Lord the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. Since then, I've followed, read and watched as many epic I've found. And also, my story was conceived.
And now, here is the glimpse of what this thread will speak of:
What of the following epic movies have you seen, and which ones are your favorites? If you have seen most of them, how will you rank them?
Note: The order the movies are listed does not represent my preferences... well, just a bit, yet I don't remember very well how was my ranking for them.
1. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring*
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers*
3. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King*
4. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe*
5. Braveheart*
6. Gladiator*
7. The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc*
8. King Arthur*
9. Kingdom of Heaven*
10. Troy*
11. Alexander*
12. 300*
13. Spartacus*
14. Ben-Hur*
15. The Passion of the Christ*
16. The Ten Commandments*
17. The Prince of Egypt*
18. The Greatest Story Ever Told*
19. Barabbas*
20. Attila
21. The Fall of the Roman Empire*
22. The Lion in Winter*
23. Helen of Troy
24. Alexander Nevsky
25. Alexander the Great*
26. The Vikings*
27. Beowulf & Grendel*
28. Excalibur*
29. Gangs of New York*
30. Lawrence of Arabia*
31. Quo Vadis*
32. Napoleon
33. Julius Caesar
34. Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World*
35. Apocalypto*
36. Hero*
37. The Curse of the Golden Flower
38. The Seven Samurai*
39. The Last Samurai*
40. Gone with the Wind*
41. Dragonslayer*
42. Cleopatra
43. Ladyhawke*
44. Pathfinder
45. The 300 Spartans
46. Saving Private Ryan*
47. The Mahabharata
48. The Patriot*
49. Tristan & Isolde*
50. Willow*
51. Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace*
52. Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones*
53. Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith*
54. Star Wars IV: A New Hope*
55. Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back*
56. Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi*
57. Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl*
58. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest*
59. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
60. The Mummy Returns*
61. The Rope*
62. Miracle Maker*
63. Eragon*
64. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves*
65. Eldest
66. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
67. Erik the Viking
68. Krull*
69. The Count of Monte Cristo*
70. Azoka
71. Dances with Wolves*
72. The Last of the Mohicans*
73. Elizabeth*
74. Gandhi*
75. The Charge of the Light Brigade*
76. Zulu
77. The Black Shield of Falworth
78. The Emperor and the Assassin
79. The Lion King*
80. Alatriste*
81. Ran
82. El Cid
83. Seven Swords
84. The Last Legion
85. Anna and the King*
86. Asoka
87. The Emperor’s Shadow
88. Kagemusha
89. Princess of Thieves*
90. Patton*
91. Sodom and Gomorrah
92. The Promise
I have to say that some of them are not quite understood or created as epics, they're just adventure movies, but for me, I have identified some things that has made them worthy of my liking, and that they are here on my list.
The ones marked with asterisk are the movies I have seen... And about Prince Caspian and Eldest, of course I haven't seen them, but since they're being filmed, they should be on the list.
Well... that was 'Phew!' for you. But, now you know, that shows at least a glimpse of my love for the Epic. On the next days, I'll update this thread and ask you about how many epics you have read. I hope you're interested to know more about this genre in both books and films. And, why not, perhaps to build a group which I call 'Glaerendilis', which means: 'Friends' or 'Lovers' of the Epic in Sindarin, one of the Elvish tongues of Tolkien in Middle Earth.
And don't be afraid of all of this, and please, do not feel offender nor scared. The Epic shows many things, you'll see... besides, what is the Epic about? It is always a long journey, and there many things to face. You are not afraid of such overwhelming things like this, and have you never felt once in your life like if you were in one of those stories?
Now, here I go with the Epic Literature. Remember, some of them may be considered well in such a genre, even when some stories were not understood and/or written as epics:
1. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
3. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
4. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew
5. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
6. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Horse and his Boy
7. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
8. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
9. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair
10. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Last Battle
11. The Holy Bible
12. The Divine Comedy
13. The Iliad
14. The Odyssey
15. The Aeneid
16. The Battle of Moyture
17. Cath Maige Tuired
18. Mabinogion
19. Beowulf
20. The Nibelungenlied
21. The Volsungs Saga
22. Lay of Mio Cid
23. Song of Roland
24. Epic of Gilgamesh
25. Ivanhoe
26. Jerusalem Delivered
27. Orlando Furioso
28. Paradise Lost
29. Paradise Regained
30. The Araucana
31. The Austriad
32. The Lusiad
33. Julius Caesar’s Gallic Wars
34. Le Mort d’ Arthur
35. Pharsalia (Civil War)
36. Shah-Namah
37. Robin Hood and his Adventures
38. Anabasis
39. Erec et Enide
40. Lancelot or the Knight with the Cart
41. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
42. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
43. The Danish History
44. The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway
45. The Cattle Raid of Cooley (Táin Bó Cúailnge)
46. The Fall of Troy
47. The Kalevala
48. Laxdaela Saga
49. The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald
50. The Mahabharata
51. The Ramayana
52. The Poetic Edda
53. The Prose Edda
54. The Ring of the Nibelung
55. The Saga of Grettir the Strong
56. The Story of the Ere-Dwellers
57. The Saga of Hervor King Heidrek the Wise
58. The Story of Burnt Njal
59. The Story of the Heathslayings
60. Ulysses
61. Yvain or the Knight with the Cart
62. The Life of King Alfred
63. The Argonautica
64. The Knight of the Two Swords
65. The Quest of the Holy Grail
66. De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)
67. The One Thousand and One Nights
68. Epic of King Gesar
69. The Faerie Queene
70. Henriade
71. Ossianic Ballads
72. Don Quixote
73. The Count of Montecristo
74. War and Peace
75. The Silmarillion
76. The Hobbit
77. Les Miserables
78. Moby-Dick
79. Thebaid
78. The Tale of the Heike
80. Metamorphoses
81. Eragon
82. Eldest
83. Empire
I leave you my email:
maesedelta@yahoo.com.mx
So that you may send further comments to me about what you have learned today with this thread.
Farewell to all of you.
Maese Delta (Glaerendil)
