Other than those few qualms, I think it's a wonderful tale, full of magic, with a classic good vs evil plot. Soon afterwards, he is in need of rescuing, and he and Irene's friendship is put to the test. I could have done without the narrator's interruptions, and the poetry sections were sub-par, especially when we are to believe that poetry is a weapon against the Goblins. Curdie discovers the Goblin's plot to kidnap Princess Irene and force her to marry the Goblin Prince. Princess Irene makes friends with a Miner boy named Curdie, when he protects her and her nurse from being attacked by goblins. The Princess and the Goblin is a classic children's fairy-tale. "It was foolish indeed-thus to run farther and farther from all who could help her, as if she had been seeking a fit spot for the goblin creature to eat her in his leisure but that is the way fear serves us: it always sides with the thing we are afraid of." Can they be stopped and the kingdom be saved before it is too late? Before the creation of Middle Earth or Narnia, George MacDonald was inventing wonderful kingdoms and populating them with magical creatures and enchanted beings, such as this unique, compelling fantasy. The terrible goblin Queen plans to kidnap the princess and force her to marry her son, so humans will be forced to accept goblins as their rulers. While working late one night in the mines Curdie overhears the goblins' diabolical plan. He leads the pair to safety, back to the castle. It is then they run into Curdie, the brave miner's son who knows how to scare the goblins away.
Terrified, they try to run but the goblins give chase. As night falls, strange shadows creep out from under boulders and around corners, closing in on them. One day, while out walking, Irene and Lootie get lost. She is protected from the outside world and oblivious to the existence of goblins, hideous creatures that live underground and only come out at night. Full of exquisite moonlit scenes that play out like dreams and underground escapades descending into nightmare, this is a must-read for all fantasy aficionados and fans of Tolkien, Lewis, and RowlingĮight-year-old Princess Irene lives a lonely life in a wild, desolate, mountainous kingdom, with only her nursemaid Lootie for company.
0 kommentar(er)
