Elves Once Walked With Gods Essay

I picked the book Elves Once Walked with Gods, by James Barclay, because I am addicted to elves and my mom saw it at a bookstore and decided to give it to me. It started out in the median where there was about to be a major battle in a fight for survival, where the elves talked about wartime strategies and how the elves were going to save other villages, but then immediately got attacked and it talked about all the details of the battle and how smooth the warriors were at moving through the enemy ranks. The battle was somewhat depicted on the front of the book with one of the main characters holding up a sword in the middle of the forest.
It is about how an elf, named Takaar, who was shunned and vilified by his own race is requested to save …show more content…
Takaar , hero of the Elves, teeters between suicide and redemption after fleeing Garonin and abandoning his people. Human priest Sildann leads assassins armed with terrible magic to the revered Elven temple Aryn­deneth, determined to preserve human authority at any cost. As brothers fight and centuries-old alliances crumble, Auum, a TaiGethan Warrior, seeks to return Takaar to his former glory before Sildann and her co-conspirators destroy the Elven nation forever. Barclay’s visionary, detail-drenched imaginings combine ancient myths with vividly realistic outbursts of betrayal, greed, and culpability. Elven culture, politics, and religion mirror our own, and Takaar and Sildann manifest very human flaws. Social dictates clash against individual desires as deafeningly as swords against shields in this riveting drama of mages, magic, and mystical races. ”(Website down). The book takes you on a magical experience where “Elven culture, politics, and religion mirror our own” and how the main character “manifest very human flaws” going to show that even fictional characters that are thought to be immune to such impurities, are actually more alike than we care to