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F is for Faerie
Some call it Fairyland or Elfland. In folklore it’s Avalon, Tír na nÓg, Alfeim, Annwn and so forth.
No matter what you call it, it’s the home of the Fae.
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Ronel the Mythmaker 
In Iceland, the Little People caused stoppage of a new highway recently 🙂
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Awesome!
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I live in a town pretty in enough to touch the Fae world. We have fairy art (if you know where to look) and other hints from the unseen realm.
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That sounds like an interesting place to live 🙂
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I always prefer stories where elves and fairies are portrayed as evil, or at least selfish tricksters. They’re too perfect and aloof for our world and petty problems.
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Absolutely 🙂
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I think my interest in faeries started when I realized they weren’t all nice and sparkly like on the Disney cartoons. Some of them were cruel, murderous even. And getting trapped in faeryland, even if it’s beautiful, also has a hint of cruelty about it, and makes the idea kind of scary. Well, I was hooked after that. 😉
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Me too 🙂
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Thanks for the mention 🙂 Elfland is super interesting and there are lots of parallels to Sienna’s journey!
I loved The Isle of the Blest poem. It reminded me of BBC’s Merlin, which is pretty relevant to me at the moment as I’ve been plagued by ideas for my own retelling of that legend for a few weeks now!
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You’re welcome, Louise 🙂 Go on and write that retelling – Merlin ended far too soon!
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I will 🙂 Merlin did end far too soon, and I can’t get this idea out of my head!
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