The Wizard - questions

stilskin · 03 Jan 2005, 09:47 · from 2005-January.txt.gz

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From: acronus at yahoo.com (stilskin)
Date: Mon Jan  3 09:47:17 2005
Subject: (urth) The Wizard -  questions
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Message-ID: <20050103174712.70531.qmail at web20024.mail.yahoo.com>

Actually, Able doesn't ascend . . . at least not at
the end of the novel.  Following his disobedience of
the Valfather, Able (with Disiri) descends to
Aelfrice, which is where Michael comes to get him for
some mission we do not know.  I'm very curious about
this mission and where it takes place.  I half-suspect
we're supposed to think it takes place in America.

Paul
--- James Wynn <thewynns at earthlink.net> wrote:

> >How many times, and in which worlds, does Able die?
>  It's already been said
> that
> >Able dies fighting Grengarm, and that the Valkyrie
> coming to get him is
> proof.  In
> >what sense does he die, though, and what affect
> does this have on him?
> He's not
> >disembodied, and he's not invincible.  Morcaine
> can't control him.  What's
> going on
> >with that ambulance?
> 
> Parka's roll as norn (which were associated with
> valkyries) suggests Able
> probably died in Aelfrice prior his encounter in her
> cave. This also fits
> with the references to him as Disiri's "playmate"
> since it evokes Athena and
> her killed playmate Pallas.
> 
> He definitely dies in Mythgarthr during his battle
> with Grengarm, since a
> valkyrie comes and takes him.
> 
> In each case he returns from "heaven" to battle for
> those in the world he
> has left.
> 
> The ambulance? That's Arthur Ormsby being taken to
> the hospital of course!
> They found him in a coma possibly near death from
> hypothermia in that valley
> where the Moss Aelf took him. Presumably, when he
> reaches the Most High God,
> he will awake.
> 
> >Speaking of Morcaine, why isn't there any
> explanation for why she was naked
> in a
> >cave in the mountains?
> 
> She was being offered as a sacrifice to Grengarm by
> the Aelf. How did she
> fall into their hands? She no doubt moves about a
> lot in Aelfrice.
> 
> >Why does Able tell Org to eat any man he doesn't
> know?
> 
> Org has to eat. Those who he has met through Able
> are under Able's
> protection.
> 
> I think it was neat the way Wolfe incorporated the
> Pendragon (son of the
> dragon) motif from the Arthur legend and made
> Arnthor *truely* the "son of
> the dragon". Arnthor is the King Arthur of Wolfe's
> imagined history...Arthur
> was not universally heroic in the Welsh stories, and
> Mordred was not
> universally villainous. He was surely not actually
> the beatific King of the
> Romances. Able is the King Arthur of the Romances
> and assends to skies where
> Mythgarthr's mythology lives. This is not the ending
> I expected, btw. I
> figured Able would become Merlin. He didn't.
> 
> ~ Crush
> 
> 
> 
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