Nov 10
You know what I love about Ireland? All the dwarfs, the mysterious dark riders on horses, the barmaids that insist on carrying a bow and arrow with them, the extreme landscapes and, of course, the rainbows so I know where to find my pot of gold. We should turn that into a cover someday, my boy.
November 10th, 2009 at 4:58 am
Silly author.. doesn’t she know it’s spelt Enniskerry!
Guess it must of been written in times before we could check things on the internet 😉
November 10th, 2009 at 7:05 am
Sometimes being a dwarf just doesnt cut it, you also need to have a peg leg.
I love the random diamond at the top of the cover, and the wee flowers at the side.
November 10th, 2009 at 8:46 am
Wow never noticed the peg leg. Amazing….
November 10th, 2009 at 11:03 am
Why is she carrying her quiver that high up at her front? Talk about inefficient. Especially if she tries to run, her skirt and quiver are going to tangle her up.
She looks bored.
The gold border, the diamond in the middle and all that scenery…too much.
November 10th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
I’m wondering how I never noticed the mountains of Ireland before. Which coast are they on? I never realised Ireland was over a subduction zone!
(That rainbow is ridiculously low, too. Yes, you get rainbows in waterfall spray, but this one is *to one side* of it. No.)
November 11th, 2009 at 3:42 am
One word Nix.. Magic.. who needs an explanation when you have magic 🙂
November 11th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
You mean someone conjured the mountains in Ireland?
Si, is that really going to be your final word on the subject? Magic?
Really?
November 11th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
Well, I guess it could be some sort of metor impact site… but you know, rainbow, evil castle, snowy mountains. Pretty much all points to magic for me.
November 11th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
It’s her face that freaks me out. It’s so flat. It looks less like a human face, and more like a lifesize photograph, cut-out, holes drilled in the side and elastic threaded through, worn over the real face. Which in turn makes me wonder what she actually looks like, underneath …
November 11th, 2009 at 5:33 pm
What do you mean, ‘she’? The whole body looks flat. This is *it*. (Or perhaps ‘Sidhe’). The Sidhe can project glamours, right? Well, this is what happens when a Sidhe just can’t be bothered.
November 12th, 2009 at 5:39 am
“Lets just see just who you really are.”
“Why its, old man Winters who runs the haunted amusement park.”
To be fair, she is showing a bit of leg, well.. knee… what a tease…. in fact come to think of it… isn’t her knee freakishly low? Gah, I can’t stop staring.
June 3rd, 2010 at 4:15 am
How refreshing to see a female giant for a change! Young, erm, giantlings need more empowered female role models to look up to!
July 20th, 2010 at 2:06 am
“Limbo of the Lost” kinda feel anyone ?
Could swear I’ve seen bits of that cover all over the place…
January 4th, 2014 at 12:44 pm
Flat female face. Little person has face in place of head. And the rainbow is arcing through the bow itself. Scale in all three dimensions was not the artist’s strong point.
January 4th, 2014 at 12:54 pm
If this is the ‘second book of the painter’ one shudders to think what his first book must have looked like.
January 4th, 2014 at 3:28 pm
With all the perspective problems here, we have no idea if the little feller’s a dwarf or just badly-drawn, EXCEPT that they’ve helpfully put a Biggles hat on him so we think ‘Time Bandits’. But the horse could be any size and any distance.
It’s obviously a serious problem in rural Ireland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vh5kZ4uIUC0
March 6th, 2014 at 11:06 am
The painter is bad at perspective and bad at astronomy. The shadows on the mountains place the sun in the upper right direction. That means the crescent of the Moon is on the wrong side.
Or this is a fantasy Ireland with two suns … like Tatooine!
March 6th, 2014 at 2:20 pm
@Bibliomancer—they don’t cover perspective until Book Three of the Painter.
Dude on right has major Buffalo Head issue. Title of book should be “The Giant Heads of Inishkerry.”
I also think her ridiculousness/smugness ratio is another example of Bibliomancer’s Theorem.
September 7th, 2015 at 10:13 am
@SI #1: To be fair, that’s the “Irish” pronunciation. I’m not saying they’re all drunks, but the painter at least must have been sampling the paint thinner.
December 5th, 2019 at 9:19 am
There’s got to be Enya playing in the background. I just know it.