Word: elfland
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...appeared before their stately lord where he sat in a carven chair in his long red room. They desired to be ruled by a magic lord. And though he feared them foolish, he agreed, and sent forth Alvaric, who was his son, to find and wed the King of Elfland's Daughter...
...enchanted it with runes and bade him be off. So Alvaric set his face toward the Elfin Mountains, whose changeless peaks were the color of forget-me-nots, and in due time passed the frontier of twilight that bordered the fields men knew and was the rampart of Elfland...
Time was not in Elfland, nor dawn nor sunset nor any change at all. The deep 'blue of summer gloaming, the pale blue of Venus flooding the evening, the night-blue deeps of twilit lakes-these were hints of Elfland's color, as the rarest of earthly smells and shapes and sounds were hints of Elfland's other beauties...
...with his sword and was not welcomed, being an intruder. From great oaks the coiling ivy rushed down at him and, when he lopped the tendrils the trees themselves moved upon him in a foremost phalanx, forcing him to blaze his trail to the lawns of the palace of Elfland. There he slew the palace guard-four splendid knight whose thick and curious elfin blood was awesome to behold. And Lirazel, the Elf King's daughter, stood among the bluebells and gazed am wondered and loved and went away with Alvaric to the Vale of Erl in the fields...
Their son was Orion. Lirazel had wanted to call him "an elvish name full of wonder and made of syllables like birds' cries at night." But Alvaric was ten years older when he returned from Elfland and took seriously the admonition of the Freer of 'Orion," Christom. He only compromised on "Orion," a name of the heathenesse and, with time, grew more set in his mind against all things elvish...