The Faerie Wars Chronicles is a fantasy action young adult novel series written by James Herbert Brennan. The first book in the series, Faerie Wars was published in the United Kingdom in February 2003 by Bloomsbury Publishing.

Kristina Alexanderson under CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0 licence under Creative-Commons licenseEnchanted arms for ps3. The Star Wars phenomenon may be partly explained by religious or political readings: the story of a rapacious Empire vs a scattered, brave and under-funded rebellion resonates across time and (geographical) space. Jediism, and its concept of ‘the force’ in particular, has religious qualities recognisable by many observers. The extent of the cultural pull of Star Wars requires reference to other conceptual structures as well, however: those of fairy tale, classical myth quests and the ‘family romance’ in a post-Freudian world.

The pleasures and satisfactions of tropes and themes familiar from childhood go some way to account for the die-hard quality of fans’ devotion. Fairy tales are about conflicts with parents; about growing up. Male protagonists often undertake a quest, while female protagonists are abused at home, or driven out by hostile older women (in the main). Some tales employ both male and female lead characters. In Hansel and Gretel, say, a brother and sister are exiled and unable to find their way home after suffering the effects of a weak father. Sound familiar? Star Wars injects a further twist by separating them.

This separation adds a quintessentially Freudian frisson to the Star Wars story. The siblings’ natural affection for each other - a deep mutual recognition - is misunderstood by Luke when they are reunited. He thinks it’s sexual desire, and is unwittingly reliant on his wiser sister to repel his erotic drive. The suggestion of incest has Freudian companions in the symbolic castration of Luke by his father when he cuts off his hand, and in the battle that culminates in Darth Vader’s death.

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The quest for the absent father is perhaps the strongest component of a mythic reading of Star Wars. ‘You knew my father?’, asks Luke. What he hears in response determines all that follows. Obi-Wan Kenobi, who answers him, is my favourite character: a fairy godfather if ever I saw one. ‘These are not the droids you’re looking for’, he says, altering reality in a later scene. The experience of redemptive love, to which his counsel eventually leads Luke, is a yet more impressive aspect of his gift.

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Fairy wars were such bloody and devastating events because were embroiled in Medieval politics long after humans had left it behind. In many ways one can see their fairy courts, their wild parties as being similar to the parties of knights, of soldiers unwinding. They had their own codes of honor which they were willing to kill and die for. Indeed, it can be argued that honor was more important to fairies than it was to nearly any human.

Their emotions as a general rule seem to be much stronger than ours do.Worse still, because fairies were fertility spirits which gave life to the land their wars and deaths would reshape the very land and throw the country off balance. The potato famine in Ireland was that killed millions of people was said to be caused by a fairy war which disrupted nature and the fertility of the land. In this case people could see the fairies flying over the land going to war with each other. Another fairy war left the world awash with so much blood that the moss where the battle took place turned red.So what do fairies fight wars over? The same things humans fought wars over. Land, food, honor, a desire for power, to kidnap women or men or because their women were kidnapped.

Fairies also fight wars to protect and help humanity. 'The War of the Trees' was a liminal war between fairy beings in the other world (including Arthur) which was meant to obtain a golden hind and dog for humanity. What purpose these served humans isn't clear given that the poem is a fragment meant to remind people of something they already knew when it was written.

Still, what's key is that the fairies lead an army of trees into the underworld in order to win treasure for humans.One interesting fact about fairy wars for fantasy writers is that fairies often needed humans to help them with their battles. In Japan, for example, Mountain Kami would often ask humans for help with their battles because humans had the ability to defeat certain things they couldn't touch (kami are made weak by the presence of unclean things such as blood, urine, centipedes, etc).In Wales the fairy lord Arawn asked King Pwyle to help him with his war against Hargan. In this story Pwyle and Arawn switch places for a year, each pretending to be the other. After ruling the fairy realm for a year 'the time for the battle in single combat between Powell and Hargan had fully come. The two warriors met in the middle of a river ford, and backed their horses for a charge. Then they rushed furiously at the other. Powell's spear struck Hargan so hard, that he was knocked out of the saddle and hurled, the length of a lance, over and beyond the crupper, or tail strap of his horse.

He fell mortally wounded upon the ground.' This story isn't too surprising considering that it was believed that ' when the fairy tribes under the various kings and queens have a battle, one side manages to have a living man among them, and he by knocking the fairies about turns the battle in case the side he is on is losing.' Joseph Jacobs has a fairy tale about a man named Paddy O'Kelly who finds himself in fairy land.He was ultimately led by this lesser fairy court to the high fairy court of King Finvara and Queen Nuala here he was greeted warmly with Finvara who tells him 'We are going to play a hurling match to-night against the fairy host of Munster, and unless we beat them our fame is gone for ever.

The match is to be fought out on Moytura, under Slieve Belgadaun.' The story goes on to point out that; ' it is necessary for the fairy host to have two live men beside them when they are fighting or at a hurling match, and that was the reason that little Donal took Paddy O'Kelly with him. There was a man they called the 'Yellow Stongirya' with the fairy host of Munster, from Ennis, in the County Clare.They were hurling away, and the pipers playing until Paddy O'Kelly saw the host of Munster getting the strong hand, and he began helping the fairy host of Connacht.The Stongirya came up and he made at Paddy O'Kelly, but Paddy turned him head over heels.

From hurling the two hosts began at fighting, but it was not long until the host of Connacht beat the other host.Then the host of Munster made flying beetles of themselves, and they began eating every green thing that they came up to. They were destroying the country before them until they came as far as Cong.