The genre has always left me cold, but my children love it. A family half-term trip to a new British Library exhibition made me think again
Sir Ian McKellen as Gandalf in ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King’ Susie Mesure is a freelance feature writer and interviewer. She was previously a senior writer and retail correspondent at The Independent and The Independent on Sunday.there are lightsabers,” says my 12-year-old son. He is trying to give me a crash course in a genre that has always left me cold, much to the disappointment of my fantasy-obsessed sons.
Crossover, finally, between what we both liked. But despite spending weeks last spring trying to follow Frodo’s quest while readingReal life, however, can be a real bore, which might explain how something novel started creeping into what I was reading.
Cartography, I later learn from the exhibition, has been a crucial component of fantasy since the time of Thomas Moore’s. “Although it’s an important philosophical text, it has an important link to fantasy today: it was the first invented world with a map and an invented language,” says Kirk. I read on, enchanted by Ged’s humility and Le Guin’s fine prose. Later that morning, in the exhibition, comes my reward: two handwritten pages from Le Guin’s earlyI peer at her notebook, from 1967, thrilled to read in her beautiful cursive script how Ged realises he must turn pursuer and confront the shadow on his own terms if he is to find peace, a lesson we would all do well to remember back in the real world.
The section on portals makes me realise I was wrong to think I never used to read – or enjoy – fantasy. CS Lewis! Philippa Pearce! Kirk laughs at my revelation. “The likelihood is you will have either read it as a child, or read it or experienced it as an adult,” she says, also pointing out that many authors are drawn to the genre. “Even writers who you might think of as solely literary classic novelists were also thinking about and writing fantasy.
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