Pre-Owned Realm Of The Ring Lords: The Myth And Magic Of The Grail Quest (Paperback) By Laurence Gardner

9781931412148. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 432. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 432 p. Contains: Illustrations. <p>The magical history of the Ring Lords, alluded to in J.R.R. Tolkein's Th<i>e Lord of the Rings</i>, has been largely consigned to legend and half-remembered battles between good and evil. Shrouded in supernatural enigma, its legacy lives on in fascinating tales of fairies, elves, witches, and vampires. <p/> The most popular Grail stories relate to Arthurian tales of Guinevere's golden Ring and the great iron-clad Ring of Camelot--the Knights of the Round Table. When this Ring was broken, the land fell into chaos and the forces of darkness reigned over the earth, starlight, and forest. <p/> Why do we sense deeper truths behind the mysteries of the Ring and the Grail? Why have their common enhancements been distorted and hidden? <p/> The ancient guardians of our culture have never featured positively in academic teachings, for they were the Shining Ones: the real progenitors of our heritage. Instead, their reality was quashed from the earliest days of Inquisitional suppression and the literal diminution of their figures caused a parallel diminishing of their history. In truth, however, the sovereign legacy of our culture comes from a place and time that might just as well be called Middle-earth as by any other name. It lingers beyond the twilight portal in the long distant realm of the Ring Lords.</p>