Bizarre Fantasylands · 4:33pm Feb 20th, 2012
I've had this idea in my head since November, so it's really just coincidence that this morning in my "Great Books I" class we were discussing the Lais of Marie de France and some recurring themes in medieval romances. Things like children being separated from their parents at birth, and the protagonists leaving the normal world and heading into a (usually metaphorical) otherworld. Kind of like how Lyra is now in some exciting, bizarre, colorful fantasyland where anything can happen,