The King of Elfland's Daughter

Avery interesting book as it was one of the books that influenced JRR Tolkien's Lord of the rings. Lord Dumsany was a prolfic writer in the early 20th century, unfortunately the books contained many flaws including this one. Poor character development, a rambing plot etc. Pretty amateurish, but there are a few good high points. Interestingly enough two members of Steeleye Span (Bob Johnson and Pete Knight) wrote and produced a 1977 concept album The King of Elfland's Daughter, inspired by the book.

The book would er of interest to those that like early fanatasy books. I thought that is was interesting enough to give this book 3 stars, though maybe I should have given it 2 1/2 stars.

The OG of high fantasy.  It's less that it's a book I like than it's a book that's nice to have read.

Where other people may have found heartbreaking story I found only guy who invaded a land that was manifestly different, on behest of couple of drunkards calling themselves a parliament and for no reason other than boredom no less, found his soon-to-be wife there who he later drove away due to his complete inability to accept anything else but his own little world, and despite her trying to do her best. The rest of the book is then describing his nothing short of insane obsession (no euphemism there, mind) with getting her back with no self-reflection whatsoever... and succeeding.

I realize this is fairy tale-esque fantasy but I just couldn't get over it with this book.

This book gets a lot of comparisons to Tolkien, Lovecraft, and others of the same era, but all I can say is read it with an open mind. It's not like anything I've ever read, which is mostly a good thing.