[Jennistar]

2. If your characters had star signs, what would they be? Bizarre question I know...

I don't know! I don't know enough about the zodiac to even guess...what do you think??

Ooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhh. Hum, I'm not sure :o
I fink Cadvan & Maerad would be around Aries or Taurus or something determined because they're both quite stubborn! :rolleyes:
Saliman has to be a Leo, the ultimate fire sign! :D
Now what about Hem......?

Anyone else any ideas?

Ah, Alison the Virgo, the practical sign. Neat and very tidy! I get on with Virgos which is weird because I'm a Scorpio and I'm not meant to... :rolleyes:

[Jennistar]

Ooh, I just thought of a couple of qs:

1. When is Maerad's birthday and do we see it celebrated? (It's got to be almost a year by now...)

2. Treesong question: Everywhere in mythology the tree is seen as a protector, Norse mythology had a tree hiding the last 2 humans in the world at Ragnarok for example. Did your decision for it to be a TREEsong and for the whole Tree of Light (Life?) have anything to do with this?

Thanking u! xxx :p

[Lemur_Girl]

Thankyou Alison for answering my questions! :D Oh, I'm so glad you like Miyazaki, He's the best of his craft, eh? And now that I think of it, Cadvan is definately wolfy :cool: what with all the trust-worthyness and endurance :D .


thankyouuuuuu :D :D :D :D

Oh and thankyou Gemini for directing me there :)

[danyl]

hey Alison, i gotta a question for you. you dont seem to have enough :D

will the fact that Maerad has Pilanel roots play an important book in coming books. I think it will with Hem but wasnt sure about Maerad??? :)

[Celebriän]

I have a calendar somewhere in which I had all this worked out - but do you think I can find it?? I hope I haven't lost it. The year is an earth year, with northern hemisphere seasons, and I think there are ten months with a number of miscellaneous days (like Midwinter and Midsummer) that don't belong to months. Sorry, until I find the calendar I'm as much in the dark as you are...

10 months? So they'd somehow overlap with the 12 months we have? I like the idea of having days that aren't parts of months, but what about the Dhorday? is that like a day of the week? Sorry for asking, especially if you still can't find it....

Why did you use northern hemisphere seasons? Is it because its easier to use the sterotypical idea of what happens in each season?

[alison]

Neat and tidy :eek: !!! Jennistar, you should see my desk... Maybe I'm just a Virgo on the cusp.

1. When is Maerad's birthday and do we see it celebrated? (It's got to be almost a year by now...)

Maerad wouldn't have a birthday, she would celebrate a name day (when she received her usename). To be honest, I'm not sure when it is!

2. Treesong question: Everywhere in mythology the tree is seen as a protector, Norse mythology had a tree hiding the last 2 humans in the world at Ragnarok for example. Did your decision for it to be a TREEsong and for the whole Tree of Light (Life?) have anything to do with this?

No, not specifically; though I am aware of the way trees are so central to so many myths (the Garden of Eden's Tree of Knowledge is another; the tree in the garden of the Hesperides, etc etc...) Yggdrasil, the Norse tree, is a world tree, with its crown in the heavens and its roots in the underworld (it's been a long time since I read this, so correct me if I'm wrong :) ) - but really the source for the Treesong - and you'll all be cross with me if you read it - is The White Goddess by Robert Graves, in which he examines an oldd Welsh poem called The Battle of the Trees. Otherwise, the symbolism of the tree as a emblem of the natural world, life, etc, comes from fairly standard myths.

will the fact that Maerad has Pilanel roots play an important book in coming books. I think it will with Hem but wasnt sure about Maerad???

Hi Danyl - I don't think so, but you never know...it's certainly important for Hem.

10 months? So they'd somehow overlap with the 12 months we have? I like the idea of having days that aren't parts of months, but what about the Dhorday? is that like a day of the week? Sorry for asking, especially if you still can't find it....

Why did you use northern hemisphere seasons? Is it because its easier to use the sterotypical idea of what happens in each season?

Hi Celebrian - it was (I still haven't found it) basically 10 months of 35 days, divided into three weeks of ten days with five stray days, and with three feast days that don't belong to any month (Midsummer, Midwinter and another one). (See above note on neatness and tidiness...)

To us antipodean types, northern seasons are fantasy...:D And also, when I began The Gift I was drawing on landscapes that I remember from my early childhood (Cornwall, to be exact) and so the northern year just followed.

[danyl]

hey
thenks for answering.
i dont think you can give a proper answer but how important is Hems Pilanel roots? Does it affect the unt for the Treesong? :rolleyes:

[Jennistar]

An untidy Virgo???? The first ever! It must be that writer's ability to have a mess for a desk butting in, I get that too... ;)

More questions!

1. I was just flicking through a book and found out that there was a king in the Arthur legends called King Pellinore! Any connection or is this just a creepy coincidence...? :rolleyes:

Thank you x

[Celebriän]

wow alsion, that must eb quite confusing. I was trying to decide whether to use the well-known calender in a story i'm writing, just chaneg the names or change the entire thing lie you have. Does it make it harder?

Neat and Tidy! You shoudl see my desk!!!!! Oh well.:D

[Lemur_Girl]

'kay I'm really sorry to gum up this thread but can anyone tell me where the Art thread went? Surely it didn't disappear...:confused: