>>25153245https://youtu.be/0S7r46y5n1w
>>25153245I like Tolkien and Lovecraft, and apparently they liked Dunsany, so worth checking. I have King of Elfland's Daughter lined up.
>>25153245kindly post a passage of any length from any of his work to convince me of this.
>>25155861I would but that file image name is cringe so shan't be doing that.
>>25153245His short stories are some of the greatest of all time. His novels not so much though.
>>25155874hark!
>>25155874it's from a song
>>25155034>I have King of Elfland's Daughter lined up.Bad start, he shines as a short story writer, not a novelist. Read The Book of Wonder or Tales of Three Hemispheres if you want to get Dunsany.
>>25155861>passageWhy not a complete story?From "Fifty-One Tales".
>>25153245He's alright, only really remembered because he is grouped with the other old fantasy writers, and that Tolkien had read and liked him. In terms of judging him separate of that, he's pretty mediocre, although there's been a couple of times where I seriously liked his writing.Time and the Gods is easily his best work.
>>25156788thanks. kinda neat. reminds me a bit of the mutibility stanzas of spenser.>>25155874her guess what fuckface.
>>25155861first paragraph
Currently reading Elfland. His prose is beautiful but honestly kind of a pain to read. Maybe his short stories are better.
>>25159450Elfland is great but yes, his 140 or so short stories are some of the greatest ever written.
>>25159578I don't dislike it so far but I feel like his style isn't suited for a longer narrative. It's very fairy tale-like.
>>25159686Elfland is only 70,000 words. Not exactly tome-like. And it’s written in such a structure as his early short stories, such as KITH OF THE ELF-FOLK.
>>25153245Based thread. With Robert W. Chambers in bookstores again we need to meme Dunsany back into the public consciousness too. Need to reread TKoED; I enjoyed some passages but the whimsical yet tragic tone filtered me. Been reading The Sword of Welleran and the title story and Kith of the Elf-folk were great. Babbulkund read more like Borges than I expected (not a bad thing)
>>25160156Dunsany really hits different. He only filters post modernist zoomer feminists. People today that actually read him love him though they are few and far between.
Dunsany sucks ass.
>>25160809Why do you have to be like this anon
He wrote what's considered the first modern Sword and Sorcery story.
>>25160985sacnoth?
>>25160991yes
i'd support this thread only if elephantfag weren't the op and stopped posting his shit on this board
>>25161473You sound jealous
>>25161473>serial shitposts because I irrationally hate a poster You lost the game that is 4chan
>>25161748>>25161788Nobody is jealous of you, elephantfagPeople hate you because you spam your rare dunsany books thinking anyone cares, to make up for the fact that you spent thousands on a LOTR copy thinking it was actually made out of elephant skin
>>25161792Meds
>>25161792Why do you people continually make shit up. It’s been years now and the facts have since become distorted. Nobody spent thousands of dollars on a folio society LOTR set unless you’re talking about the 2003 edition. The 1990s edition I bought for $150 which is the market price. Also, I collected more than just that over the last decade.
>>25161872You still pretended it was made out of elephant skin and embarassingly tried to excuse yourself of it.You even called yourself elephant anon instead the term /lit/ gave you- Elephantfag
>>25161879Okay, but that was funny. And as a semi public person I can’t use words like that. Obviously you are aware of this. I’m easily identifiable just by the books I post. Some of the books I own are even 1 of 1s that don’t exist outside institutional collections. Not everyone who posts on /lit/ can remain anonymous. You keep saying that people hate me, but it’s mostly just you posting this over and over. Yet there are people that like seeing the books I post. My collection is generally very well respected in the circles outside 4chan. I put over a decade of effort into it and hundreds and thousands of hours of time, let alone the monetary investment. For me it’s not about the money though, it’s just a passion of mine. I hope you can someday respect that hater anon.
>>25161899Why do you keep obfuscating the fact you tried to brag on here about owning a book you thought was actually made from an elephant's hide?No person with actual experience in the rare book trade thinks elephant hide refers to a book binding made of tanned elephant leather rather than a type of paper. Actual serious book collectors don't buy multiple copies of the same book, which is what you do. They also generally own rare books from a multitude of authors rather than autisticlly buying the same book over and over again.
>>25161918I don’t partake in “folio” buying. That was my first meme book I ever bought. I don’t even own Tolkien anymore. I sold my entire collection for profit. My 1957 LOTR I bought for $2200 I sold for $9000. The 1963 LOTR I sold for $8,000. My 1963 I bought for $800 I sold for $3300. Not much of a profit on that one. I used that money to grow my Dunsany collection which has been a side passion for me since 2018. I don’t buy multiple copies of the same book unless it’s for a purpose: for instance, a unique inscription, association, a better dust jacket, etc. I own about a dozen books with original unpublished poems inscribed in them by Dunsany. Do you consider that a duplicate? Also, about the elephant hide thing. That was nearly three years ago. What do you want me to say? That I misunderstood what some ridiculous Folio branding was? For the record, I despise Folio Society for their anniversary edition of Elfland, which I thought was entirely disrespectful to both the legacy of Dunsany and Sidney Sime. I returned it as soon as I opened it, and I encourage everyone I meet to avoid Folio. As for the elephant hide 1990 LOTR, that one was a gift from my grandma. It is the last Tolkien object I own as I dispersed my Tolkien collection.
>>25161926To add onto this, I once owned three copies of the first edition Elfland in jacket. I sold two to my close friends and now only own one. That was because I found the ultimate copy, inscribed by Dunsany to Oliver Gogarty (I got it from his family). It’s against my philosophy to hoard the same book over and over without purpose.
>>25161926>>25161931And you're still bragging about money like a nigger rapper with gold chains does. Nobody cares about how much money you make from your books. Nobody cares about your threads you make as an excuse for you to show off your books. Nobody cares about your deranged fixation with dunsany (and this is coming from someone who reads dunsany and has visited his estate IRL). It's clear you latch onto an author for a few years and then go onto someone else. You did it with tokien, you're doing it with dunsany now, who knows who else you'll be fixated on in a few yearsAnd in the original elephantfag thread you stated that spending that much money on books was so worthwhile because they'd "last you a lifetime". Yet you sold them all a few years later. Shows how much you care about the books you buy.
>>25153245Why?
>>25161938I brought the money point up to directly refute your past insults (which you have made) that I was wasting my money and that the books were worthless. You clearly have not a bit of an idea what you’re talking about. As I said, I’m well known in the circles now. Nothing you say will change that, and nothing you post on here anonymously (as you’re too afraid to show yourself) will change my collecting habits. Not sure why you bother. And visiting the castle isn’t a boast. It’s an open museum essentially. I say that as someone who is friends with the family. As far as the disposal of my Tolkien collection, that was done after I was scammed by a fellow collector. I became disinterested in Tolkien collecting entirely. But I’ll always be proud of my Dunsany collection. Have a good day anonymous bitter man.
>>25161972Why not?
>>25161979Because there's an infinite amount of reasons to not read him and a finite number of reasons to read him e.g. there are many of people to read. our time here is precious and finite so, why read this guy?
>>25161979>>25161985If I had infinite time, I'd eventually read him.But I live in finite time and have to triage.So explain why this patient deserves our immediate metaphysical attention.
>>25161985Read him for something unique and different then. Many tried to replicate him. All failed. I’ll offer you a review of Dunsany that I own, by fellow Irish writer James Stephens, inscribed in Dunsany’s first book. I think it’s the finest review of Dunsany ever written. In less than 500 words it captures the essence of what made him great.
>>25161997Thanks >>25161996you caught my interest
>>25161997
>>25162001You’re welcome. Here it is transcribed. Have a good day.
>>25162012thanks again, was in the middle of myself doing the transcription
Reading up on him.Interesting fella, a real long-armed Lugh.Proto-Tolkien even.
>>25162032He has an interesting personality to say the least…
>>25161974>You clearly have not a bit of an idea what you’re talking aboutI have actually dealt in the rare book industry handling incunabula worth more than your collection combined. But i don't brag about that because i'm not an insecure faggot like yourself.>And visiting the castle isn’t a boast. It’s an open museum essentially. I say that as someone who is friends with the family. As far as the disposal of my Tolkien collection, that was done after I was scammed by a fellow collector. I became disinterested in Tolkien collecting entirely. But I’ll always be proud of my Dunsany collection. Have a good day anonymous bitter man.Have a good day with your gook girlfriend you pathetic tourist.
>>25162064You’re disgusting. Grow up.
>>25162065You literally have an asian wife and spend your mommy's neetbux on buying literature which you inevitably sell off after a few years.You're also a DYEL mutt with caterpillar eyebrows
>>25162081You’re comically evil. Somebody hurt than man REALLY bad.
>>25162086Pointing out the asian wife you've shilled on here makes me evil?
>>25162099Your bigotry is comically evil. You have no self awareness.
Why did this thread become retarded I just woke up
>>25162104Using mild racial slurs and insulting you for not being able to get a white woman and settling for a gook makes me comically evil?
>>25162125Anon in thread has 4 year old grudge against another anon. Let autism ensue.
I read some Lord Dunsany. If this fawning thread reflects the broader regard in which he's held, I have to say: hugely overrated.
>>25162314His output is so large and varied you’ll have to be more specific.
>>25162343Large maybe; varied I've yet to see evidence of. It's mostly the same portentous drivel, invoking big metaphysics in service of simplistic, flattening ideas executed in the same outmoded (even for the time) self-inflating prose.
>>25153245the gods of pegana is very good
>>25162401This is your opinion. To others it’s great. I respect your opinion though. Keep reading because Dunsany wrote so much it’s ridiculous.
>>25153245I've only read the Wine of Gorgondy story and was quite impressed. Very economical yet expressive writing.
>>25163026Classic Dunsany. That was his phase where he was essentially poking fun at his early style.
>>25163026https://sacred-texts.com/neu/dun/adta/adta03.htm
>>25153245>This is the tale of the vanquishing of The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save For Sacnoth, and of its passing away, as it is told and believed by those who love the mystic days of old.>Others have said, and vainly claim to prove, that a fever came to Allathurion, and went away; and that this same fever drove Leothric into the marshes by night, and made him dream there and act violently with a sword.>And others again say that there hath been no town of Allathurion, and that Leothric never lived.>Peace to them. The gardener hath gathered up this autumn's leaves. Who shall see them again, or who wot of them? And who shall say what hath befallen in the days of long ago?
>>25163808Seminal.
Bump
Mail call (no I don’t have these!)
>>25165564This one was difficult to find in a jacket. There’s only 1 poem collection of his I don’t own now.
>>25165566And this one is very rare in this level of a jacket condition. All three wonderful additions.
>>25165564>>25165566My Ireland and war poems I have not read.
>>25159686For me I remained feeling like that for the whole book. I didn't dislike it. At the end I thought "oh it ended" and then I started reading something else and didn't think about it again.
>>25165587I mean, it’s a melancholic kind of ending I suppose.
>>25165633I don't really even remember how it ended.
>>25165655It If I recall the elf king uses the last bit of magic extant to absorb the vale of Erl into its barrier thus making Erl magical but also extinguishing magic, and allowing Lizrael and Alveric to be together. But I haven’t read it in a decade.
Lovely night.
>>25155861excerpt from King of Elfland's Daughter>Hark, nigger! Stay thine nigger lips! This elven maid is not for thee and thy dark desires! Begone now, or I shall pass word to the King whose daughter this is, and he will surely hang you!He was a very racist man
>>25166378Can /lit/ ever have a thread anymore without it devolving into exaggerated racism.
>>25162401Read Jorkens.
>elephantfag doesn't even discuss dunsany's stories, prose, etc, he just uses his thread as an excuse to post his new business investments (he's going to sell all these books in a few years anyway)
>>25166717I like that we’re now at levels of delusion where he’s a personal friend to the whole family as well. Me, I fucked Cormac McCarthy so you could say we were pretty close. I guess that makes me better than you haha. You should read his books, which I am somehow the gatekeeper of being the close intimate friend of his.
>>25166738he must have male BPD but instead of becoming obessessed with a person for a few years and then abandoning them he does it with old authors instead.did it with tolkien once, doing it with dunsany now. i do wonder how deranged his obession will start to get. is he gonna start collecting dunsany's personal items now? locks of his hair? going to ireland and chipping bits off his gravestone?
>>25166738>>25166764>>25166717/lit/ isn’t your personal blog space
>>25166978You use it as a blog space to post your Dunsany just like you before bragged about your elephant hide LOTR, faggot
>>25167323I’m not sure what you want /lit/ to be but your vision sucks.
>>25167421You don't even discuss Dunsany's writing style, stories, etc, you use this board as an excuse to post your capitalistic ventures into buying old books which you'll resell later.Fuck off
>>25155034Tolkien did not really seem to like him.
>>25167441Nobody is discussing Dunsany because you’re in this thread 24/7 posting med induced inane babble. There are other threads on here for you to target.
>>25167587You didn't make this thread to discuss Dunsany. You made it to show people your new investments.
>>25167654Would you like to hear about the bibliographical curiosity from 1912 that I discovered?
>>25167698Would you like to stop shilling your investments on this board? Would you like to stop pretending you're a fan of the authors you pretend to read? Shows how much of a fan of tolkien you were. Those tolkien folios totally lasted all your life seeing as you sold them off a year after you got them.
>>25167753>>25167753You’re weird dude. And you clearly didn’t read earlier. I still have the folio because it was a gift from my grandma.
>>25167761You have an asian wife
>>25167766What’s wrong with that…?
come and find me on Facebook. I know you know my name. I feel like if we have a normal conversation for once we will come to an understanding. Sitting on 4chan insulting each other every time we meet for the last 4 years does nothing. Also, I would love to tell you about everything.
>>25167771You know already.>>25167778>come and find me on FacebookNo thanks>I feel like if we have a normal conversation for once we will come to an understanding. Sitting on 4chan insulting each other every time we meet for the last 4 years does nothing. Also, I would love to tell you about everything.I'd be normal to you if you made these threads to discuss dunsany's works, which you don't. You make them because you're a narcissist.
>>25153245Kino. I’m actually reading King of Elflands Daughter right now. I love it for being such a fairy tale with none of the current trappings of modern fantasy.
>>25153245I actually just took out a copy of King of Elfland's daughter from my Uni library yesterday, am almost finished with my current read (Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man) and am deciding whether to read Dunsany next or something else from my enormous stack.
>>25167778I'll be your friend anon, I don't think you're a wanker just because you thought Elephant Hide was real, I wish I had the money to drop on fancy collectors editions, I can barely justify purchasing Loeb editions for myself.
>>25169418>>25169431Wonderful! Let’s talk about what you thought/think when I get home from work. I’ll have plenty of time tonight since my wife works. >>25169434That’s nice brother. I don’t really pay that much mind to the guy though. He has been doing this for 3 years now. Every thread I make he comes to it like a magnet. My collection is worth a lot but I am not rich. I am mostly able to collect what I do because of my job. We can talk about it later and I can give you tips.
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