Fantasy boy's Reviews > Time and the Gods

Lord Dunsany is one of influential fantasy writer in pre-Tolkien Period, and it has significant influence on Tolkien. After reading The Elf King's Daughter I must say such a beautiful written book beyond a shadow of doubt could influence later generation of excellent writers like Tolkien. Time and the Gods wrote in early 20 century, the writing is not too flowery to assimilate into, its words not too easy to browse but too laconic not to pay focus on the writing. When I was reading Lord Dunsany's I feel each words are exactly belong to on the pages, those terse descriptions not only easily portray the scenery and nature also arouse the affection to the spirit of the fictional world by Lord Dunsany. This is why I praise Lord Dunsany's writing. Easily visualized scenarios were written by the hand of the wordsmith proffered me extraordinary reading experience that I did not usually have before.
Time and The Gods are about the histories of old gods and new gods, mortals were living with those gods for a while, some chapters are mortals were finding gods or gods were finding followers. Prophets and kings are prominent in this book, they could be interpreted as some premonitory events were going to occur or the witnesses of gods raised and fell. In Time and The gods didn't have any center plots to compel the story. As time moved on, mortals and deities were still trying to find a place to fit in eternal recess of the world that they were living in. Even Time is a slave in this book, it does not care too much of the condition because even gods would know to be afraid of time itself.