Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné if I'm not mistaken.
Yup, the Melvinbone. Pretty influential stuff. There's also that "O, Prince" line that starts off Conan the Barbarian.
Slap my hand now!
Anya ,'Empty Places'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
JohnSweden - Dec 16, 2004 5:36:51 am PST #6649 of 10002
I can't even.
dcp - Dec 16, 2004 5:43:04 am PST #6650 of 10002
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit."
IJS
Jim - Dec 16, 2004 5:47:39 am PST #6651 of 10002
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
SF/=Fantasy. Otherwise you have to argue with "OF Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree..." and you lose , bitca.
Jim - Dec 16, 2004 5:48:33 am PST #6652 of 10002
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
Or possibly "Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost"
Polter-Cow - Dec 16, 2004 5:49:52 am PST #6653 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
That's not fantasy, Jim. Dante totally did all that.
Connie Neil - Dec 16, 2004 5:50:34 am PST #6654 of 10002
brillig
"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit."
yup
dcp - Dec 16, 2004 5:51:19 am PST #6655 of 10002
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Heh. I figured that line got crossed with the Moorcock quote.
Jim - Dec 16, 2004 5:51:40 am PST #6656 of 10002
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
It was only my innate sense of respect for others that stopped me posting "In the Beginning was the Word", which for those of us without faith stomps every other contender flat.
Steph L. - Dec 16, 2004 5:52:52 am PST #6657 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I was also thinking "It was a pleasure to burn."
Ah, lovely. Damn, I love that book.
JohnSweden - Dec 16, 2004 5:53:35 am PST #6658 of 10002
I can't even.
"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit."
Yup. I went and looked at the opening line of Fellowship, but it didn't ping me. I'm AFB of my copy of Nine Princes but that has a pretty memorable opening.