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burntcopper) wrote2008-11-03 01:47 pm
burntcopper) wrote2008-11-03 01:47 pm
nano smite!, Mariza
nano being fucking evil. Got completely bogged down every time I started a new paragraph. This section clearly doesn't want to be written. And considering it's the opening scenes of the Pevensies deciding to stay and aftermath of the battle of Beruna, gyeeaargh. Though I don't understand why Caspian's pov keeps sneaking in. It's supposed to be omniscient.
Just hope the reaction scenes go better so I can get on with the sort-of-plot. Then figure out where precisely I want to stick Glozelle's pov on Peter. Or rather, where up to - I know I want to start from when he first encountered or heard of him, which is probably the siege on the castle, but not sure where up to after that. I'm presuming that most of the Telmarines know a bit about the Narnian kings as legends or something - not on the near-worship King Arthur status the Narnians have them (Calormenes have them on King Alfred/Normans level where they still have records of treaties and so on of the time and thus know a bit better what they're more likely to do), but more like... I dunno, Robin Hood? GAH. Why can't the English have more legendary figures so I could do comparison better? But nooooo, we only have two. :headdesk:
Went and saw Mariza (fucking stunning Fado singer) last night at the Barbican (food in the restaurant is really good, btw), including the newbies of my aunt Sam and her mate Heidi, and bro's gf Louise. See them be stunned. mwhahaha. And she just gets better every time - better interaction with audience, more confident, funnier, more commanding - she's learnt how to control the audience with a single gesture. Voice and stage presence are stunning, as usual. Added bonus - she came down into the crowd and was an arm's length from us. Mum has informed me she's going to torment the portugese bloke at work with this. (the only pouty bit of this vs. Cardiff is the fact that due to it *not* being Wales, the audience singing a bit back to her was rather weak. I still treasure that moment in Cardiff - it was the end of her last tour, she'd been getting audiences to learn the chorus of a song, and when it came to the part when the audience sang it rather than hesitantly repeated it, she had this rather stunned look since she'd got hit by the wall of sound that is Welsh choral and clearly hadn't been expecting it.) Half the portugese population of London were in the audience. :g: Oh, and she apparently did a kids and families session that afternoon with added Q&A, which is very cool and a great way of capturing the new generation.
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Just hope the reaction scenes go better so I can get on with the sort-of-plot. Then figure out where precisely I want to stick Glozelle's pov on Peter. Or rather, where up to - I know I want to start from when he first encountered or heard of him, which is probably the siege on the castle, but not sure where up to after that. I'm presuming that most of the Telmarines know a bit about the Narnian kings as legends or something - not on the near-worship King Arthur status the Narnians have them (Calormenes have them on King Alfred/Normans level where they still have records of treaties and so on of the time and thus know a bit better what they're more likely to do), but more like... I dunno, Robin Hood? GAH. Why can't the English have more legendary figures so I could do comparison better? But nooooo, we only have two. :headdesk:
Went and saw Mariza (fucking stunning Fado singer) last night at the Barbican (food in the restaurant is really good, btw), including the newbies of my aunt Sam and her mate Heidi, and bro's gf Louise. See them be stunned. mwhahaha. And she just gets better every time - better interaction with audience, more confident, funnier, more commanding - she's learnt how to control the audience with a single gesture. Voice and stage presence are stunning, as usual. Added bonus - she came down into the crowd and was an arm's length from us. Mum has informed me she's going to torment the portugese bloke at work with this. (the only pouty bit of this vs. Cardiff is the fact that due to it *not* being Wales, the audience singing a bit back to her was rather weak. I still treasure that moment in Cardiff - it was the end of her last tour, she'd been getting audiences to learn the chorus of a song, and when it came to the part when the audience sang it rather than hesitantly repeated it, she had this rather stunned look since she'd got hit by the wall of sound that is Welsh choral and clearly hadn't been expecting it.) Half the portugese population of London were in the audience. :g: Oh, and she apparently did a kids and families session that afternoon with added Q&A, which is very cool and a great way of capturing the new generation.
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Why? Probably because the UK has any number of different mythos cycles that have fed off each other over the years, many of which originated from neighbouring countries or racial groups.
The Arthur mythos has been particularly voracious; there are any number of older or more obscure stories that have been recast to bolster Camelot.
Also: a lot of English mythos is Germanic; whereas what was British mythos remains in some form or another in Wales and the West.
Good book to read (when you're not up to your eyeballs in nano): Charles L Squire's 'Celtic Myths and Legends' (pub. 1905); not the most exacting or up-to-date book, but it does cover a fair bit of the British and Irish mythology well.
Non-Arthurian hero figures?
Bran
Taliesin
Gwyddno Garanhir (king of the Lowland Hundred - near Aberdyfi)
Gwydion
Peredur (who possibly got morphed into Percival)
Culhwch
Beowulf
Wayland
(Some of which are used to some degree in Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising)
As for Robin Hood-alikes and historical figures:
Boudicca
Owain Glyndŵr
Hereward the Wake (who held the Fens against the Normans for some years).
Jarl Buthar and Aikin the Beloved (who kept Lakeland free of the Normans for 30 years post-invasion - the Viking resistance to the Normans is the backdrop for Sutcliff's 'The Shield Ring'.)
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also, trying to think - I need formal announcement or way of conveying to the populace that the Pevensies are official monarchs too, and that Peter is the High King - should I get Aslan to do it as the last thing he does pre-buggering off or get Caspian to make the announcement?