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Series
Genres
Publication
Ballantine Adult Fantasy (1973), Paperback
Pages
268
Description
Three children are drawn into another world where a fierce conflict for power is waging.
Awards
Mythopoeic Awards (Finalist — 1972)
Language
Original publication date
1970
Physical description
268 p.; 6.9 inches
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LibraryThing member wirkman
A dark sort of coming-of-age fantasy, wherein children of our world are transported to a fantasy realm, and there grow up, amidst much danger and warfare and sorcery. Very well done, very much like Alan Garner's work, only it is even more reminiscent of more famous fantasists. You might even say it
I've actually read this twice, once as a youngster, once as an adult. It held my attention the second time, so I have to give it fairly high marks.
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is like a marriage of Tolkien and Lewis: the main thrust of the fantasy action and world is Tolkienian; the children's arch story is more Lewisian, almost out of Narnia.I've actually read this twice, once as a youngster, once as an adult. It held my attention the second time, so I have to give it fairly high marks.
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LibraryThing member schteve
A little too derivative to garner more stars from me, Red Moon and Black Mountain combines elements of C S Lewis's Narnia books (the children swept away into a fantasy world where there is a coming of age) with Tolkien's Lord of The Rings (said fantasy world is under threat from a powerful
Excellent writing in parts and a better LOTR plagiarism than Terry Brooks' Shannara potboilers.
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baddie).Excellent writing in parts and a better LOTR plagiarism than Terry Brooks' Shannara potboilers.
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LibraryThing member hermit_9
I remember that this book was good enough to read at least twice. I just wish I could remember it.
LibraryThing member ben_a
Read at the recommendation of James Stoddard (The False House), but not for me. I did not find the world adequately realized, I did not find the villain or heroes resonant, and it all felt rushed.
LibraryThing member Dr_Bob
On re-reading, the awe instilled by Chant's beautiful prose, her gift for simile and metaphor, for setting and emotion, for apt insights into people as individuals and as a species and our sometimes harmonious and sometimes contentious interactions with nature and with ourselves remains as powerful
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as I remember--and only deepened by the knowledge that this work was written by Ms. Chant, a librarian, when she was but twenty-five years of age. The tale is a portal fantasy with child heroes, Narnia-like, and yet their challenges, the choices they make, and their consequences are harshly adult, particularly its dramatic somewhat disturbing--yet right-- conlcusion. Similar to Lewis' Narnia, upon rereading, I find a patina of Christian allegory and archangel analogs within Chant's panthenon of atavistic pseudo-Druidic "High" gods. "Red Moon, Black Mountain" Fifty years since its publication, I consider the book a classic of modern epic fantasy written in the tradition of those like Lewis, Tolkien, Morris, and Eddison written decades to a half-century before. Show Less
LibraryThing member Dr_Bob
On re-reading, the awe instilled by Chant's beautiful prose, her gift for simile and metaphor, for setting and emotion, for apt insights into people as individuals and as a species and our sometimes harmonious and sometimes contentious interactions with nature and with ourselves remains as powerful
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as I remember--and only deepened by the knowledge that this work was written by Ms. Chant, a librarian, when she was but twenty-five years of age. The tale is a portal fantasy with child heroes, Narnia-like, and yet their challenges, the choices they make, and their consequences are harshly adult, particularly its dramatic somewhat disturbing--yet right-- conlcusion. Similar to Lewis' Narnia, upon rereading, I find a patina of Christian allegory and archangel analogs within Chant's panthenon of atavistic pseudo-Druidic "High" gods. "Red Moon, Black Mountain" Fifty years since its publication, I consider the book a classic of modern epic fantasy written in the tradition of those like Lewis, Tolkien, Morris, and Eddison written decades to a half-century before. Show Less