Fantasy Filk (A-K)
Updated December 9, 2001
Filk based on all sorts of fantasy works.
Ball, Margaret
Barker, Clive
Baudino, Gael
Baum, L. Frank
Beagle, Peter:
Before the Dawn
The famous and beautiful British songcycle, begun by Mike Whitaker's
song "Before the Dawn" and continued by...well...just about everybody!
- Zander's lyrics
include:The Answer,
Begging Your Pardon,
Bright Copper,
I Cannot Understand,
I'm Asking,
Magic Abroad,Overcast,
Playing Soldiers,
Red Sun Rising,
Rumour-Monger, and
Rumour-Monger in Captivity.
- Dawn
by Rhodri James
- And this comment:
Please Don't Light My Fire by Zander Nyrond
- And another one:
After the Dawn by Minstrel (Chris Malme). Not an official part of the cycle.
Bordertown
(a really good shared world anthology series,
edited by Terri Windling):
Bradley, Marion Zimmer
Brust, Steven
- Jhereg by Mike Richards and Erica Neely
Burroughs, Edgar Rice
Carroll, Lewis:
Chambers, Robert W.
Cherryh, C.J.:
- short story from _Once Upon a Time_ anthology --
- The Tree of Swords and Jewels
Cooper, Susan:
de Lint, Charles:
Dragonlance:
Duane, Diane:
Dunsany
Eddings, David
Elgin, Suzette Haden
Gaiman, Neil
Gemmell, David
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Goldman, William:
Grahame, Kenneth
Hambly, Barbara:
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Dragonsbane --
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Dog Wizard series --
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Ishmael
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Time of the Dark series --
Haggard, H. Rider:
Hodgell, P.C.
(One of our most underrated and under-recognized
writers. Read her.):
Holdstock, Robert
Howard, Robert E.
Huff, Tanya
- The Lazy Wizard
by Judith Hayman
- Tanya Huff is notoriously filk-friendly, having based books on filksongs
and been a guest at FilkOntario.
Ilisch, Maja (Thesilee)
Jordan, Robert
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Wheel of Time Filk
- Dragon
Reborn by Bjorn
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Jak'o'Shadows by Erica, .au file only
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Lingonberry Bones by Karl-Johan Noren
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Mad Killer Gholam by Dennis Higbee
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Manetheren Girls by Jain Farstrider
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Modern RASFWRJian by Rebecca Slitt
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Money for Jordan by Michael Thompson
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Myrddraal Friend by Charles Shelton
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The Myrddraal Recruiting Song by G.B. Christianson
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Sympathy for Mordeth by Bill Garrett
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Taraboner Girls by Selene
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They Might Be Trollocs songbook by various contributors
- The Dark One's Dictionary, modeled on Ambrose
Bierce's humorous definitions in _The Devil's Dictionary_, includes filks under "Breaking of the World, The";
"Cairhien", "Fain, Padan", "Gentling", "Lanfear", "Lugard", "Matrim Cauthon", "Moiraine", "Saldaea",
"Ways, The", & "Wheel of Time".
Poems --
Joyce, James
Kay, Guy Gavriel:
Kerr, Katherine