This came up in the Epic Pooh discussion over on Enworld, so I thought I'd raise it here.
Mike, have you read the Silmarillion by Tolkien at all? There is a character called Turin who is a doomed hero with a seemingly sentient black sword, who inadvertently kills close friends. At the end of his life, Turin asks the sword to take his life and the blade replies that it would do so gladly - at which Turin promptly impales himself upon it.
The Silmarillion didn't come out until 11 years after Stormbringer, but the parallels are nevertheless interesting. A note on the oh-so-reliable Wikipedia suggests that both characters might have been inspired by Kullervo of Finnish myth (possibly through Poul Anderson's Broken Sword). What do you make of this? Were you drawing on the Kullervo myth at all when devising the Elric saga, or is it a case of parallel development, as so often happens?
Edit: I found another thread about this from a couple of years ago: http://www.multiverse.org/fora/showthread.php?t=1102. Looks like most of the questions have been answered there already. Note to self: search before posting...
Mike, have you read the Silmarillion by Tolkien at all? There is a character called Turin who is a doomed hero with a seemingly sentient black sword, who inadvertently kills close friends. At the end of his life, Turin asks the sword to take his life and the blade replies that it would do so gladly - at which Turin promptly impales himself upon it.
The Silmarillion didn't come out until 11 years after Stormbringer, but the parallels are nevertheless interesting. A note on the oh-so-reliable Wikipedia suggests that both characters might have been inspired by Kullervo of Finnish myth (possibly through Poul Anderson's Broken Sword). What do you make of this? Were you drawing on the Kullervo myth at all when devising the Elric saga, or is it a case of parallel development, as so often happens?
Edit: I found another thread about this from a couple of years ago: http://www.multiverse.org/fora/showthread.php?t=1102. Looks like most of the questions have been answered there already. Note to self: search before posting...
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