From: "Matthew Davis" 
Subject: Re: (urth) Major new Wolfe story online
Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 22:00:51 +0100


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From: "Adam Stephanides" 
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Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 10:17 PM
Subject: Re: (urth) Major new Wolfe story online


> So Wolfe is a Kai Lung fan.  I had no idea.
>
> I've seen the "princess on a glass mountain" motif twice before: in a
novel
> called THE GLASS MOUNTAIN by Leonard Wolf, which I haven't read, and in a
> Fractured Fairy Tale (in which the rescuer was a giant frog).  Given this,
> I'd expect that it occurs in some genuine fairy tale or medieval romance,
> but nothing comes to mind.

The "princess and the glass hill" by andrew lang
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=LanBlue.sgm&images=image
s/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=33&division=div1

which I found by this nifty index to Lang's fairy tales
http://users.ece.gatech.edu/~emily/Docs/lang.html#p

But does the title allude to anything? One of the hobbits went under the
false name "Mr Underhill" but nothing else leaps to mind.


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