To complete my obsession: it was one day to Smoit's castle. But otherwise it all seemed very big ( Read more... )

Okay, I went back and checked. Early in the Black Cauldron, we get explicit day transitions, and it takes Gwydion's group 3 days to get from Caer Dallben to Annuvin; they attack that night. Some fleeing later, it's a day from Gwystyl's waypost to the Marshes of Morva. At 20 miles a day I'd say Prydain's 80 miles across ( Read more... )

The Black Cauldron: Gwydion decides to steal the Black Cauldron, as Arawn's abusing it more and more. Arawn's security seems, uh, poor. By a remarkable coincidence, the Cauldron's true owners decide to take it back at almost the exact time. They *are* the Fates (obvious to me even as a kid, I knew my mythology) so I guess "coincidence" is ( Read more... )

I got paperbacks of the Prydain series for a quarter each from NESFA, and I re-read The Book of Three last night. Reactions ( Read more... )