The King of Elfland's Daughter

<p><strong>Before the fellowships and wardrobes and dire wolves...</strong></p><p>...there was the village of Erl and the Kingdom of Elfland. </p><p>Considered formative to the development of the fairy tale and high fantasy subgenres <em>The King of Elfland's Daughter </em>follows Alveric who leaves home on a quest with a few basic instructions: locate the Princess Lirazel in Elfland convince her to return to Erl and marry him and together produce the first magical Lord of Erl.</p><p>But what happens when a village gets exactly what it asked for? </p><p>How does an elf learn to live as a human?</p><p>Is love lost once lost forever?</p><p>The people of Erl are about to find out.</p><p>Take a walk through the fields we know and see if you can spot the pale-blue peaks of the Elfland Mountains. Fans of J.R.R. Tolkien C.S. Lewis and Neil Gaiman will adore Lord Dunsany's influential 1924 classic as much as those authors themselves did.</p>