“When the Dark comes rising six shall turn it back;
Three from the circle, three from the track;
Wood, bronze, iron; Water, fire, stone;
Five will return and one go alone.
Iron for the birthday; bronze carried long;
Wood from the burning; stone out of song;
Fire in the candle ring; water from the thaw;
Six signs the circle and the grail gone before.
Fire on the mountain shall find the harp of gold
Played to wake the sleepers, oldest of old.
Power from the Green Witch, lost beneath the sea.
All shall find the Light at last, silver on the tree.”
Three from the circle, three from the track;
Wood, bronze, iron; Water, fire, stone;
Five will return and one go alone.
Iron for the birthday; bronze carried long;
Wood from the burning; stone out of song;
Fire in the candle ring; water from the thaw;
Six signs the circle and the grail gone before.
Fire on the mountain shall find the harp of gold
Played to wake the sleepers, oldest of old.
Power from the Green Witch, lost beneath the sea.
All shall find the Light at last, silver on the tree.”
The start of Christmas season is the perfect time to introduce The Dark is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper, seeing how 'The Dark is Rising' takes place over the 12 Days of Christmas as Will Stanton learns his true powers and has to fulfill a prophecy to save the world. It sounds really more cliche than it actually is (unless you mean the travesty of a movie they made from the book which is about as cliche as it deserves to be). The full 5 book set consists of 'Over Sea, Under Stone' (Jane, Simon, and Bartley find the Grail and part of a prophecy), 'The Dark is Rising' (Will discovers his true powers), 'Greenwitch' (Power of the greenwitch, lost beneath the sea), 'The Grey King' (Will meets a strange pale boy with even stranger parentage), and 'Silver on the Tree' (finding the light at last and saving the world to boot).
Eep! I love this book series! Thank you so much!!! <3
ReplyDeleteThe less said about the movie, though, the better - I was soooo disappointed (not even Chris Ecclestone could save it, though I usually enjoy seeing him in movies). Sometimes, changes need to be made when books are made into movies. Not everything translates well into the specific visual language of a movie; the space (time) which you have to tell your story is also limited... budget... all fine, but none of them justify the changes they made in TDIR, none of which was for the better - or even suited to make the movie a slightly different, but equally enjoyable telling of the same basic story. Sigh.