![]() ![]() I’ve written about The Fionavar Tapestry in an older blog - so I won’t go into much depth here. Regardless, Tolkien’s influence can be felt on Kay’s first work, The Fionavar Tapestry, which pays clear homage to The Lord of the Rings in various ways. Tolkien.ĭetails about Kay’s involvement with the Tolkien estate is not readily available online, although I’m sure you could dig around and find more than I did. However, what’s significant about Kay’s past - and what you might call a seminal moment for him as a fantasist - was when he was chosen by Christoper Tolkien as an assistant to help edit the collected works of the master himself, J.R.R. Kay was born in Toronto in 1954 (a Canadian like myself) and educated as a lawyer at the University of Toronto. Kay has a knack for bringing passion and drama to life on the page and his characters are intensely human and relatable. He stands out to me, amidst the recent trend towards epic and grimdark fantasy, because his books are beautiful, poetic, and embrace stories of love and loss. Guy Gavriel Kay is without a doubt one of the foremost fantasy authors of the post-Tolkien generation, although he can often get skipped over. ![]() Cover Image Credit: 7Narwen on Deviantart, based on maps by Matt Springett.ĭisclaimer: The following discussion contains a bunch of minor spoilers for Guy Gavriel Kay books. ![]()
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