Part of the idea in doing an Epic Diana Wynne Jones Roundup was to get a little bit of my DWJ love out of my system so I could talk about other things!
That, uh, kind of backfired, as what it mostly ended up doing was made me want to reread a whole bunch of DWJ books I hadn't read in a while. THIS WAS IN NO WAY A PREDICTABLE OUTCOME shut up.
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*deeeeeeeeeeep breath*
Okay, so if you liked Howl's Moving Castle, the thing that's probably closest to that in terms of adorably cranky OTPs and wacky magical hijinks is Deep Secret, which involves mages and ghosts and curses and computers and galactic empires and happens to take place at a sci-fi convention. (It is amazing, there is a scene where a wounded centaur is caught in an elevator, and everyone is just like "AWESOME COSTUME. *_*") Maree and Rupert are adorable - he thinks she is whiny and self-pitying, she thinks he is a tremendous buttoned-up prat, and together they save several worlds!
If you want more parody of fantasy conventions, you probably want to go with Dark Lord of Derkholm, which is the one where tourists come through and make everyone in fantasyland run around to create an Authentic Experience for them. Basically it is DWJ mocking everything you see in Epic Fantasy, and it is AMAZING and hilarious.
If you want hilarious fake Shakespeare, go with The Magicians ( ... )
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Ah, but! In the little note at the end, DWJ points out that you only ever see one of Mr. Chew's hands mentioned at one time! Uh, I would not have noticed that at all if she had not pointed it out. But I think she is trying to imply that one of his hands is illusory, like Wednesday's other eye?
(Hee! I was a little that way in The Game, too. Well, half that, and half cracking up at 'Mercer', since I know someone who's been writing a contemporary Mercury using just that name!)
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Okay, so officially it's an Afterword, and it pretty much spells out all the mythology in the story. About Tew, it says: "The main thing that is known is that Tew has lost (or will lose - time is strange where gods are concerned) his arm trying to chain the monstrous wolf Fenri. Alert readers will have noticed that David's attention is generally just fixed on one of Mr. Chew's arms. Gods are good at hiding their attributes." Then it has the Wedding/Woden section, which gives the general background and points out that "he used to ride an eight-legged white horse, which naturally appears nowadays as a white car, driven by one of his daughters, the Valkyries." She doesn't say much on Thor and the Freys, just that Thor was god of thunder and a popular god and Frey and Freya were gods of sex and fertility ( ... )
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