Medieval Medley: First thoughts about The Wheel of Time, adaptations, and related stuff that I don't want to write about separately (Part 1 because this is getting late and long)

All right, what to talk about tonight? Since I really haven't dug back into Substack this holiday week, I might as well talk about what I have had on my mind, and most of that had centered around my growing interest in fantasy fiction. So, let's dance around that for a while.

A Reading List

I probably mentioned it before, but before diving in to this bigger fantasy project, I've been taking a deeper dive into some of the fantasy I had read as a kid and getting into some books I thought were long overdue. I reread The High King by Lloyd Alexander (which held up far better than my middle-school memories had recalled) and started diving into The Lord of The Rings. Of the latter series, I've been pretty impressed, but I got started on it back when schools closed down back in the spring of last year. Sadly, I've been stuck somewhere in Part Two of The Fellowship of The Ring and always don't find time to continue that. I even started to to a video review of it, but it's been a long time since…