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Original Title:	Thomas the Rhymer
ISBN:	0553586971 (ISBN13: 9780553586978)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Thomas Learmonth of Erceldoune
Setting:	Eildon Hills, The Borders, Scotland
Literary Awards:	World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (1991), Mythopoeic Fantasy Award (1991), Tähtifantasia Award (2009)

Thomas the Rhymer Paperback | Pages: 258 pages

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Title	:	Thomas the Rhymer
Author	:	Ellen Kushner
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 258 pages
Published	:	June 1st 2004 by Spectra (first published December 31st 1990)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Fiction. Romance. Historical. Historical Fiction. Retellings. Mythology. Fairy Tales

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Award-winning author and radio personality Ellen Kushner’s inspired retelling of an ancient legend weaves myth and magic into a vivid contemporary novel about the mysteries of the human heart. Brimming with ballads, riddles, and magical transformations, here is the timeless tale of a charismatic bard whose talents earn him a two-edged otherworldly gift.

A minstrel lives by his words, his tunes, and sometimes by his lies. But when the bold and gifted young Thomas the Rhymer awakens the desire of the powerful Queen of Elfland, he finds that words are not enough to keep him from his fate. As the Queen sweeps him far from the people he has known and loved into her realm of magic, opulence—and captivity—he learns at last what it is to be truly human. When he returns to his home with the Queen’s parting gift, his great task will be to seek out the girl he loved and wronged, and offer her at last the tongue that cannot lie.

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The cover for the Russian edition, done by Yaroslava Kuznetsova, is the best one ever.The book didn't live up to my expectations, but it was pretty good as I remember it. Actually, I don't even remember if there was something Celtic in it. Wales, maybe?

Such lovely prose. I enjoyed the first two sections much more than the last two, but the ending, though bittersweet, was satisfying.

Sometimes you take a chance on a random $1 paperback and it pays off. Thanks HPB <3

A really intetesting, extremely unusual novel. Its sort of an example of what fantasy might have been like if Tolkien had never existed, with a deeply character driven storyline and a setting very rooted in old England and its mythology, sort of like Spencer or something. its largely a down to earth, almost realist novel, interrupted by 100 pages of the strangest, most surreal storytelling I've seen in a while. (A friend of mine compared this section to the wizard knight by Gene Wolfe, and, for

This was such a disappointing book.I really liked the premise, of combining myths and folklore and songs. But Kushner seems to have forgotten to tie that in with a character I wouldn't loathe. Thomas was self-centered, vain, selfish, dishonest, and unable to think about anything other than his penis for longer than an hour. He says at one point that he was enchanted to follow the "Elf Queen" (hated that "elf" and "fae" were interchangeable) to her domain, but I really didn't see him putting up a

This is an elegant and romantic retelling of the ballad of Thomas the Rhymer, a harper who was taken by the Elven queen to spend seven years in Elfland and came out with the gift of telling only the truth. I was somewhat unsatisfied with the events of the novel, and with the character of Thomas himself, who was sufficiently self-centered that I had a hard time sympathizing with him, but the language was beautiful, as Kushner's always is, and it was overall a good read.

I love novels like this; that flesh out a traditional tale while remaining true and faithful to the source material. (Like Robin McKinley's 'Beauty', Donna Jo Napoli's 'Zel', etc). This book retells the legend of Thomas the Rhymer, a minstrel taken under the hill for seven years of service to the faerie queen, who returns with the 'gift' of being unable to tell a lie. It brings to life Thomas and those who know and love him, letting a reader feel not that what they'd heard previously of the tale