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1. • J Parker
   • It's called the Weirdstone of Brisingamen and I have been doing it in my spare time between changing nappies.
     
     Ahem...
     
     www.myspace.com/gorseland
     
     
   • [00:08 on 19/01/09]
2. • Mazz
   • J Parker says:

     It's called the Weirdstone of Brisingamen and I have been doing it in my spare time between changing nappies.
     
     Ahem...
     
     www.myspace.com/gorseland
     
     
     
     
     I read that when I was 10. insane.
   • [10:00 on 19/01/09]
3. • Carey
   • i don't really like those books. i don't think the characters are very well developed. i remember the svarts (sp?) being pretty scary though. do they feature in your concept piece?
   • [16:39 on 19/01/09]
4. • J Parker
   • Actually it's only loosely inspired by it, very loosely, in fact it's so vague even if you have read the book you won't necessarily connect. What I was inspired by (apart from having read it over and over again aged, yeah, 10!) was the lovely eerie feeling created around the whole Alderley Edge environment, the legend of the knights sleeping inside the hill, and the weird characters that pop up. That's it really.
     
     It's not like Lord Of the Rings (never read that one, mind you!)
   • [22:38 on 19/01/09]
5. • Rob Himself
   • I was under the impression those books were new! What I don't know about children's literature could be written on the side of a building.
   • [11:56 on 20/01/09]
6. • Mazz
   • I have been reading up on the "Edge". I found this.....cool
     
     "The Iron Gates
     
     The Wizard InnThe location of the Iron Gates is unknown but they are supposed to lie between Stormy Point and the Holy Well.
     
     Tradition says that a farmer from Mobberley was taking a milk white horse to sell at the market in Macclesfield. Whilst walking along the Edge, he reached a spot known locally as "Thieves Hole." Suddenly an old man clad in a grey and flowing garment stopped him. The old man offered the farmer a sum of money for his horse but the farmer refused, saying he could get a better price at the market. The old man told the farmer that he would be at this spot again that evening when the farmer returned, not having found a purchaser for the horse. The farmer failed to sell the horse and, cursing his luck, made the journey back home along the Edge. At the same point, the old man appeared again, offering the farmer the money, which this time was accepted. The old man told the farmer to follow him with the horse. As they approached an area just past Stormy Point, the old man banged on the ground with his stick and, to the farmer’s shock, the rock opened up to reveal a set of Iron Gates. The old man beckoned the farmer to follow him through the gates into a large cavern. In the cavern, the farmer saw countless men and white horses, all asleep. The old man explained that all these sleeping warriors were ready to awake and fight should England fall into danger. The farmer was shown back to the gates and stepped outside back onto the path. Immediately the gates slammed shut and the rock face returned to its previous state.
     
     There are several versions of the same legend from different places. A letter published in the Manchester Mail in 1805 signed by a gentleman known as "A Perambulator" supposes that this gentleman has knowledge of the location of the Iron Gates near Stormy Point, but no other person has claimed to have found them.[21] Further variations say that the Wizard was Merlin and the sleeping men were King Arthur and his army. Yet another version sees the old man saying to the farmer "There will come a day when these men awake from their enchanted slumber and will descend the plain, decide the fate of a great battle and save their country. This shall happen when George the son of George shall reign."
     
   • [12:12 on 20/01/09]
7. • J Parker
   • Yeah that's the one Alan Garner 'borrowed' for the book! What's crazy is the book is so short but when you were 10 it seemed like a mammoth adventure. That's cos it's super-exciting, and actually quite scary in parts - eg Grimnir...(band name!)
   • [15:09 on 20/01/09]
8. • Big Si
   • I loved the Weirdstone when I was a kid. Never read the sequels, but I'd like to some time. I love the way he mixed English folklore with Norse myths, I'm a sucker for stuff like that.
   • [21:05 on 20/01/09]

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