thanks ManthaStoirmeil!
Lost Snail, SO good to hear from you *beams*--this feels a bit like old times when only you and DP and I would comment on each other's poems LOL. "Neo- Old World" style .... I like that more than I would ever admit, hehe. As for poetry on the lore of said fantasy world, that is the kind of poetry I feel most at home with .. Tolkien-type writers are my shining stars in the dark wasteland of modern literature! I mean, there is a level when fantasy becomes cheesy and a bit like too many sweets--can turn the stomach. But fantasy that has a history, a mythology, a language, its entire intricacies and facets--that is what changes fantasy into believe-ability, and that is the kind of fantasy I like and the kind of fantasy I attempt to write. Obviously, my poetry reflects that. In fact, the reason I first started writing proper poetry was to accommodate a 50 chapter book I was writing ... it had its own poetry and mythological heros and characters .. it had various languages based on real "old" languages now not heard.....I was writing a mythical history of Ireland before the Milesians or Iron Age Celts arrived ... but all adapted to being in Tolkien's World. LOL ... I believe Tolkien was writing about Britain and Europe in his tales. I write about Tol Eressea or Ireland--Eire, Eireann.
Enough babble on my part though
