Comments on: Teaching and Fantasy Literature: When All Stories Were Fantasy Stories

By: C.S.E. Cooney

C.S.E. Cooney — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 14:45:17 +0000

So great. As usual. I can go for weeks without reading this blog, but if I see on LJ you’ve written something, here I dash!

By: Gruud

Gruud — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 13:51:05 +0000

Thanks for clearing that up for me, and permanantly too!

BTW, I had a co-worker who recently named his son Garion … from NWN1 I believe …

And hiw wife was okay with the name and the source.

By: Sarah Avery

Sarah Avery — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 21:05:24 +0000

You're not the first person to see Gareth and think Jareth. Actually my son is named after my favorite Arthurian knight. While I was pregnant with him, I was working on Malory's Le Mort d'Arthur with a couple of my students--two brothers whose native language was Mandarin, but who wanted to understand the Arthurian revisions in Garth Nix's short story collection. It was pretty slow going, even though we used a rendering in modern English. After a few hundred pages of knights behaving badly, the only one of those characters I would have wanted to hang out with at a neighborhood barbecue was Sir Gareth, the ultimate good stand-up guy. Apparently it's a common name in Canada and the UK, especially in Wales. All the other Gareths I've met have been Canadians. The internet thinks Jareth is the correct spelling for the goblin king, so your friends seem to have hit their target just right.

By: Gruud

Gruud — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 13:42:04 +0000

Actually, I was trying to make a bit of an “in” joke without being too obvious about it.

But I have always wondered about something, since my friends did a very similar thing. Only they began with a “J” instead.

Would we need a script to know which was “correct”, or are there other sources? If I had to guess, I’d guess they spelled it “wrong”, not everyone else.

Either way, they were very surprised when I knew the source.

By: Sarah Avery

Sarah Avery — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 03:04:30 +0000

Gruud, ask anything you like about the goblin king.

(Something about the word “inquiries” feels very job-application-y to me. My first thought was to wonder whether you were calling for references because you were considering hiring a goblin king, or inquiring whether I had any job openings for goblin kings.)

By: Gruud

Gruud — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 11:40:00 +0000

Would it be impolite of me to make inquiries here regarding the goblin king?