"Fantasy Books/Shorts That Deserve a Movie or TV Series (Round 1C)" Topic

'Halfmoon'? Surely Hawkmoon… voted for on the basis this is a typo.

Never even heard of most of these, much less read them. I voted only for the Lord Kalvan series as being both filmable and entertaining.

I did not vote for The King of Elfland's Daughter by Lord Dunsany, as being a work which should be read, not filmed. On some things, we should not give in to lazy illiterate dolts, who won't appreciate it anyway.

The usual hedge that being adapted by modern Hollywood is a fate only Moorcock deserves, but the Riley books might make decent movies, as would Lord Kalvan. Limekiller might work as one of those British/streaming service ten episode series

I think Hrolf Kraki's Saga would make a fine … whatever.
We already have more than enough "Viking" stuff, and Game of Thrones has broken the taboo against incest stories. 🙄 I kid, I kid…
But he is/was a genuinely good King, and I love Vögg's revenge.
This is a fine story from Anderson's dark period.
The first time I read it, i immediately thought of Basil Rathbone as the slimy Adhils.

I've never read a bad Poul Anderson story.
Please, don't send me any examples.

But, if Horrywood relies on TMP Polls for guidance, good luck with that.

"I've never read a bad Poul Anderson story."

I haven't either. But I've read a few too depressing to re-read. Even for a Scandinavian, he could be bleak sometimes.

Now, I also insist that neither Barbara Hambly nor Lois McMaster Bujold ever wrote a bad story--but they each have series I won't give shelf room, or even time. Not bad stories, but you can sometimes find a very good story without finding it good company.

Parzival, I think the Judith Merkle Riley books may be the most obscure in the poll, but you might find them worth a look--nicely done fantasy of the sort which assumes magic works in the late middle ages and Rennaissance pretty much the way contemporaries believed.