From: Connie Rockman <connie.rock>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:58:20 -0400

Kemie's post reminded me of characters who have always been so "alive" for me I didn't even think to mention them as characters here - Taran and Eilonwy and the entire cast of the Prydain Chronicles.

We read all five books aloud when my kids were young . . . and they devised a sort of memory-game around them. They would take turns announcing the characters' names, as if they were entering a stage, and the first one who couldn't think of one that hadn't been mentioned yet lost the game. I can still hear them announcing in loud, clear voices: Eilonwy-of-the-red-gold-hair, Taran-of-Caer-Dallben, Gwydion- Son-of-Don, Doli-of-the-Fair-Folk, and on and on. The tongue-twisting Welsh names were never a deterrent for them, or any kids over my years as a librarian who have loved them as much as we did.

Connie Rockman


On Jun 23, 2009, at 9:24 AM, Kemienix at aol.com wrote:

>
> If these characters (AMONG my ever-expanding favorites) have already
> been
> mentioned, I apologize. I tuned in to this discussion late:
>
> Taran and Eilonwy of the Prydain Chronicles by Lloyd Alexander --
> also his
> Vesper Holly
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