Unicorns in fiction

[Overread]

No, unicorns don't crop up anywhere in The Silmarillion or LotR. I suspect (though I'm not certain) that they represented a type of allegorical symbolism to which JRRT took a rather dim view....

interesting - I guess we are so used to so much of fantasy being in LORT that its very easy to think some common fantasy creatures are in there when they are not!

 

[chrispenycate]

Lackey and Mallory's "Obsidian trilogy" has a fairly important unicorn character (plus a few backup unicorns)

 

[daisybee]

Thanks for the help people, but dudes, its my gap!!

It's like when you get an idea and get busy with it, then it strikes you as horribly obvious, so obvious it must be out there already. Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't.

Is this how hollywood always come up with pairs of movies with the same idea??

I'll investigate the books you guys have mentioned, thanks a lot.

 

[flynx]

Sorry Daisy, but unless you play nice and share I'm going to have to claim priority for the niche as I have a piece for critique from September 06 entitled 'Dragons and Unicorns'.

There is some fascinating stuff about unicorns all over the interwebs when you start researching.

So play nice.

 

[daisybee]

LOL-I think our chosen genre of fantasy is just about big enough for us all to pitch up on.

I must say I am enjoying the research at the moment-varied wild stories from all over the world which is cool.

 

[Stylus]

I remembering seeing a pickled unicorn in the Damien Hirst exhibition a few months ago.

I'm pretty sure he didn't manage to catch a real one - the horn was totally in the wrong place (almost between the eyes, not up on the crown; if it bowed its head to charge, it would have gone straight into the ground and jack-knifed over).

And that's about the limit to my appreciation of modern art: "The unicorn looks fake."