GOOD books about elves
Friends have reassured me that, because I am writing a work of fiction, it absolutely does not matter if I get the date of a 2006 snowstorm or the price of a video rental special wrong, forgetting that I am the kind of person who gets angry at fantasy novels if they are mythologically wrong about elves. "Which books are mythologically right about elves, Rose?" I'm so glad you asked! What irks me about many fictional portrayals of the fair folk is that the authors try to make things up about them out of whole cloth and in so doing miss a lot of the fascinating details that make elves so interesting. The vast body of existing lore, encompassing "fictional" accounts as well as "true" memoirs of fairy encounters, contains so much ornate weirdness that it's always disappointing to me when authors pass it up as source material. One of the greatest books on elves is of course Sylvia Townsend Warner's Kingdoms of Elfin , a wonderful short story colle