Elidor Quotes

“On a gloomy day in Manchester, Roland, Helen, Nicholas and David are lured into a ruined church, where the fabric of time and place is weak enough to allow them into the twilight world of Elidor.”

“The initial setting, in the remains of a bombed out section of Manchester is creepy enough and it gets weirder from there.”

“Roland, Helen, Nicholas and David, four Manchester children, are led into Elidor, a twilight world almost destroyed by fear and darkness.”

“It is a place almost destroyed by fear and darkness, and the children are charged with guarding its Treasures while a way is sought to save the dying land.”

“An unpredictable story of otherworld passages and Garner’s wonderful ability to paint a scene. Suspense and strangeness everywhere.”

“Then the evil forces find a path through to this world… ”

“it was into Elidor that four young people wandered from the rundown streets of a modern city.”

“Elidor is a fabled world of ruined castles, ancient wizardry, and magical laws beyond those of our own prosaic everyday world. ”

“It was from Elidor that they returned with the four sacred Treasures on which that weird land depended: a spear, a stone, a sword, and a cauldron.”

“The four Watson children are wandering about in the slums of the city. They see a fiddler who leads them into the magical land of Elidor.”

″‘I heard your music,’ said Roland. ‘Why were you playing so far away from people?’ ‘I was near you. Are you not people?’