![]() ![]() The familiar motifs and characters arise, the Champion (von Bek), his Companion (Sedenko, a naive and deeply bigoted Muscovite) the Adversary (Klosterheim - a sadistic Inquisitor, perhaps after De Quincy?), set amidst a conflict between the cosmic forces of Law and Chaos and the hope for freedom from these extremes and the dawn of a humanitarian age of Balance. ![]() What follows is a simple episodic quest structured within the mythic pattern of Moorcocks Eternal Champion sequence. The Siege of Magdeburg | Peeter Meulener | 1631 Obviously the content precludes us from believing the story, but instead the introduction alerts us to the novels explorations of the themes of History and Fantasy. Purportedly the text is an account, written in 1680, of the experiences of one Graf Ulrich von Bek during the Thirty Years War, wherein he meets a Miltonian Lucifer and is charged to retrieve The Holy Grail for Him. ![]() Tolkiens fantasy Lord of the Rings (The Red Book of Westmarch) also opens The Warhound and the Worlds Pain, Micheal Moorcocks 1981 entry in the Eternal Champion saga. The found manuscript device beloved of writers of Gothic literature, and that introduces J.R.R. ![]()
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