Where are the druids, in written fantasy? And I mean *real* druids; not hippie tree-huggers that call themselves druids and happes to know the exact same spells as D&D says that druids know.
Druids in historical fantasy would make the most sense, but non-historical fantasy is welcome as well.
I tried English Wikipedia, and finally managed to find a list-of-druids, but the only druid in the "fictional" section was Getafix, the druid from the Asterix comics. That wasn't very helpful.
There are druids in Bradley's "Mists of Avalon", and there's Taliesin in Bradshaw's "Hawk of May" except he's only a bard, not a druid (druids are also referred to in one of Bradshaw's historicals, but they never appear on-screen). I can't really recall any others at all...
Peter Knutsen <pe...@sagatafl.invalid> wrote: >Where are the druids, in written fantasy? And I mean *real* druids; not >hippie tree-huggers that call themselves druids and happes to know the >exact same spells as D&D says that druids know. ... >There are druids in Bradley's "Mists of Avalon", and there's Taliesin in >Bradshaw's "Hawk of May" except he's only a bard, not a druid (druids >are also referred to in one of Bradshaw's historicals, but they never >appear on-screen). I can't really recall any others at all...
Are you counting the ones ... I'm sure they're there, though I don't remember them precisely ... in Patricia Kennealy(-Morrison)'s series?
> Peter Knutsen <pe...@sagatafl.invalid> wrote: > >Where are the druids, in written fantasy? And I mean *real* druids; not > >hippie tree-huggers that call themselves druids and happes to know the > >exact same spells as D&D says that druids know. > ... > >There are druids in Bradley's "Mists of Avalon", and there's Taliesin in > >Bradshaw's "Hawk of May" except he's only a bard, not a druid (druids > >are also referred to in one of Bradshaw's historicals, but they never > >appear on-screen). I can't really recall any others at all...
> Are you counting the ones ... I'm sure they're there, though I don't remember > them precisely ... in Patricia Kennealy(-Morrison)'s series?
> David Farland has druidish wizards...
> Dave
Are there Druids in Anderson's King of Ys series?
What about the second book of the Centurion series by Damion Hunter (real name Amanda Cockrell), Barbarian Princess?
>Where are the druids, in written fantasy? And I mean *real* druids; not >hippie tree-huggers that call themselves druids and happes to know the >exact same spells as D&D says that druids know.
>Druids in historical fantasy would make the most sense, but >non-historical fantasy is welcome as well.
>I tried English Wikipedia, and finally managed to find a list-of-druids, >but the only druid in the "fictional" section was Getafix, the druid >from the Asterix comics. That wasn't very helpful.
>There are druids in Bradley's "Mists of Avalon", and there's Taliesin in >Bradshaw's "Hawk of May" except he's only a bard, not a druid (druids >are also referred to in one of Bradshaw's historicals, but they never >appear on-screen). I can't really recall any others at all...
There's Balasius in Mary Stewart's _The Crystal Cave._ A real creep.
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> Where are the druids, in written fantasy? And I mean *real* druids; not > hippie tree-huggers that call themselves druids and happes to know the > exact same spells as D&D says that druids know.
> Druids in historical fantasy would make the most sense, but > non-historical fantasy is welcome as well.
> I tried English Wikipedia, and finally managed to find a list-of- druids, > but the only druid in the "fictional" section was Getafix, the druid > from the Asterix comics. That wasn't very helpful.
> There are druids in Bradley's "Mists of Avalon", and there's Taliesin in > Bradshaw's "Hawk of May" except he's only a bard, not a druid (druids > are also referred to in one of Bradshaw's historicals, but they never > appear on-screen). I can't really recall any others at all...
There might be some in Robert Holdstock's Celtica series (well, there are various Celts in it...) but I haven't finished the third volume (which had *lots* of Celts, I think) and I can't recall whether there are any actual druids in the series; I'm afraid it wasn't as good as it often gave the impression that it could have been.
Here, Peter Knutsen <pe...@sagatafl.invalid> wrote:
> Where are the druids, in written fantasy? And I mean *real* druids; not > hippie tree-huggers that call themselves druids and happes to know the > exact same spells as D&D says that druids know.
A druid wanders by in John M. Ford's _Growing Up Weightless_. Also _Web of Angels_.
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In article <48adaa7c$0$90264$14726...@news.sunsite.dk>, Peter Knutsen <pe...@sagatafl.invalid> wrote:
>Where are the druids, in written fantasy? And I mean *real* druids;
Madeleine L'Engle, /An Acceptable Time/, if memory serves me correctly.
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Garrett Wollman <woll...@bimajority.org> wrote: >Peter Knutsen <pe...@sagatafl.invalid> wrote: >>Where are the druids, in written fantasy? And I mean *real* druids;
>Madeleine L'Engle, /An Acceptable Time/, if memory serves me correctly.
Oh, oh, and a much more recent series, ... hang on, lemme read through part of my booklist ...
<time passes; Dave starts reading backwards>
Okay, by Mark del Franco, two books so far: unshapely things, unquiet dreams - Connor Grey is a magically-crippled druid who's investigating Stuff, and there's entire organizations of druids nearby, and they're not typical D&D druids _or_ the oldstyle Celtic 'sacrifice them when needed and the gods will sort things out' druids either.
(You know you have Too Many Books when you can get an idea of where to start looking in your booklist by visualizing approximately _where_ in Waldenbooks you generally see the book in question.)
Dave
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<pe...@sagatafl.invalid> wrote: >Where are the druids, in written fantasy? And I mean *real* druids; not >hippie tree-huggers that call themselves druids and happes to know the >exact same spells as D&D says that druids know.
>Druids in historical fantasy would make the most sense, but >non-historical fantasy is welcome as well.
>I tried English Wikipedia, and finally managed to find a list-of-druids, >but the only druid in the "fictional" section was Getafix, the druid >from the Asterix comics. That wasn't very helpful.
>There are druids in Bradley's "Mists of Avalon", and there's Taliesin in >Bradshaw's "Hawk of May" except he's only a bard, not a druid (druids >are also referred to in one of Bradshaw's historicals, but they never >appear on-screen). I can't really recall any others at all...
I'm pretty sure there's one in John Myers Myers _Moon's Fire-Eating Daughter_. And I know there's one in the same author's vaguely historical novel _Harp and Blade_. (He's sort of why the story happens, IIRC.)
GG Kay's YSABEL has one.
There ought to be one in Mildred Downey Broxon's _Too Long a Sacrifice_ as well as in Jo Walton's _Prize in the Game_ but I don't remember any actually being in either of those.
Any retelling of the Deirdre story should have at least one druid.
> Garrett Wollman <woll...@bimajority.org> wrote: >>Peter Knutsen <pe...@sagatafl.invalid> wrote: >>>Where are the druids, in written fantasy? And I mean *real* druids;
>>Madeleine L'Engle, /An Acceptable Time/, if memory serves me correctly.
> Oh, oh, and a much more recent series, ... hang on, lemme read through
* part of my booklist ...
OK, now where are the Druish princesses in written fantasy?
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:48:43 +0200, Peter Knutsen wrote: > Where are the druids, in written fantasy? And I mean *real* druids; not > hippie tree-huggers that call themselves druids and happes to know the > exact same spells as D&D says that druids know.
> Druids in historical fantasy would make the most sense, but > non-historical fantasy is welcome as well.
> I tried English Wikipedia, and finally managed to find a list-of-druids, > but the only druid in the "fictional" section was Getafix, the druid > from the Asterix comics. That wasn't very helpful.
> There are druids in Bradley's "Mists of Avalon", and there's Taliesin in > Bradshaw's "Hawk of May" except he's only a bard, not a druid (druids > are also referred to in one of Bradshaw's historicals, but they never > appear on-screen). I can't really recall any others at all...
They feature as part of the various societies in Vance's "Lyonesse" trilogy, _Suldrun's Garden_, _The Green Pearl_ and _Madouc_.
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