This week, we conclude Katharine Kerr’s Daggerspell, learn the secret of Rhodry’s parentage, unpick (some of) the ties that bind, and ride off on the long road!

Next week, an introduction to Charles Dickens!

Content Warnings: incest, suicidal ideation, violence, misogyny

Footnotes:

• Daggerspell
  
  
• Katharine Kerr
  
  
• Ruth Urquhart
  
  
• Mallorn: The Journal of the Tolkien Society
  
  
• “Where do Elves go to? Tolkien and a Fantasy Tradition“
  
  
• The Black Cauldron
  
  
• The Chronicles of Prydain
  

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