Author Lloyd Alexander dies

[ShbrtAlley44]

Posted: 5/18/07 at 3:44pm

Very sad. I loved his Chronicles of Prydain series.


Source Updated On: 5/18/07 at 03:44 PM

[Roninjoey]

Posted: 5/18/07 at 4:31pm

I didn't know he was still alive! That is sad, these books have been on my mind lately.

[jasonf]

Posted: 5/18/07 at 10:57pm

I had no idea he was still alive either -- that's sad. The Black Cauldron is a real classic.

[Gingersnap2]

Posted: 5/18/07 at 11:21pm

I remember those books...though it's been ages and ages since I read them (after seeing the animated version of "The Black Cauldron")

I remember especially liking Adaon, though his part was so brief, and Gwydion.

[eponine88]

Posted: 5/18/07 at 11:24pm

i actually just watched the animated version of the black cauldron with my sisters this evening after not having even thought of it in ages....curious coincidence. Very sad

[Taryn]

Posted: 5/19/07 at 1:51am

How sad! I, too, grew up with the Chronicles of Prydain. (It was especially nifty for me, being Taryn, to read about a leading character named Taran.)

[Calvin]

Posted: 5/19/07 at 9:48am

I read them all in my junior high years, starting from when we had to read "The Book of Three" in sixth grade English and turn it into a play. We made the blatant error of actually giving the Horned King a name as Gwydion vanquished him.

Posted: 5/19/07 at 10:22am

i loved these books too!!!
i read 'em in 5th grade, my mom got me the dell paperbacks boxset as a biirthday present & i devoured 'em.

i loved the cover illustrations, i could get lost in them...& some of them were soooo creepy!!!!!

i remember crying for days over the last sentence in the last book.
i think that mightve been the first time i began to understand that we all die & fade from memory.

[Ariella]

Posted: 5/19/07 at 11:42am

Aw, I loved (love) the Chronicles of Prydain. Very sad news.