Re: What is the Fifth Age?

Falconer wrote:
> 
> 2. If they'd kept Elmore as the core artist instead of switching to
Easley;
> 3. If they'd kept the old logo instead of introducing a new Fifth Age
logo

You're telling me you wouldn't buy a DL product because of the cover art 
or the logo? :)

> 4. If they'd asked Weis to write the core novels, or at least a
recognized,
>    well-liked, long-time DL author such as perhaps Mary Kirchoff;

Well, as you just mentioned in another post, Knaak wrote what appeared 
to be a 'core trilogy', but I don't think anybody is taking it as such. 
At this point, it seems most will never accept something from anybody 
other than W&H as 'core'.

> ...Then, even if they had done everything else exactly the same, 
> probably they wouldn't have put off so many fans all at once.

Well, the putting off of fans began before SAGA, before a change of logo 
and artist and so forth.

> Come on, Craig. Morten published a comprehensive, consistent, and 
> largely very scholarly and research-based criticism of Tales of the 
> Lance.

The fact remains that I'm of the opinion that very little to Morten is 
"Dragonlancey", and everything else is rejected. TotL, DoSF, 5th Age, 
WoS save for when they're destroying 5th Age elements.

I'm just saying that for others, such as myself, DL can encompass a bit 
more of what's out there and remain "Dragonlancey" than what Morten 
seems to allowed for himself.

Craig J. Ries