And so begins a journey to deliver the stone to safety that makes companions of the children, their farmer-caretaker, a wizard, and a couple of dwarves. A weirdstone that was long ago stolen from a wizard has made it down the years and into the children's hands as a family heirloom, and their presence with it back in its former homeland awakens the dark forces that want it. Two young siblings are staying on the country farm in the English countryside where their mother grew up while their parents go abroad, and they quickly find themselves caught up in an ancient battle between good and evil as the boundaries between the world of modern Cheshire and the old England of wizards and morrigans blur and fade.
Its not in the vain of LotR's, its not an answer to LotR, or inspired by or uses similar sources, this story is put together from chunk after chunk of actual plot from the Hobbit, Fellowship and Two Towers. I really don't think you could get away with publishing this today without being sued.
Fun enough as LotR's ripoffs go.Įdit: Having now perused some other reviews i'm shocked at how little people seem to grasp what a knockoff of LotR this book is. Its kind of terrible in a way and funny, possibly on purpose? It became so absurd in the latter portions it started to remind me of 'Labyrinth'. As the plot never slows down there isn't too much in the way of jeopardy or at least suspense, but the speed of events and the ridiculous pileup of fantasy concepts stopped me getting bored. The language can be a bit tricky for younger readers, there are a lot of names thrown around too and some accent writing. The entire rest of the book is one long chase sequence and the near constant thefts from LotR did become a bit annoying. It reminded me of until about the 15% mark when the author just decided to give up and steal as much of as he could get away with, which turned out to be a LOT :P.
It makes things just seem very mundane, not boring, just oddly normal and unglamorous, i quite liked those parts. This is a strange one, at times it felt like it was doing to fantasy what 'Alien' or 'Red Dwarf' did to sci-fi.
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