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Books: Faery Epic*

Cabbages and Thunderbolts; Trolls, Unicorns, Twilight

The Story. It all began because The Parliament of Erl was to some extent imaginative. In their ruddy jackets of leather, the twelve members 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.

Alvaric came to Witch Ziroonderel, his father's friend. Out of 17...

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