Episode 13: Rings of Power Season 2 Official Trailer, The First Sword & Sorcery Story: Lord Dunsany’s “The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth”
In this episode we react to the new “official” trailer for Rings of Power season 2. Then we do a full breakdown and deep dive into Lord Dunsany’s short story The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth which is believed by many to be the first Sword & Sorcery Story (the other contenders are The Shadow Kingdom which is the first King Kull story by Robert E Howard but Howard’s first published Sword & Sorcery story would be Red Shadows a Soloman Kane story which although it was written after The Shadow Kingdom was published by weird tales first). We discuss whether Dunsany’s fairy tale fits the definition of a Sword & Sorcery story (spoiler warning, we do!) and run through our overall enjoyment and delight in reading the story.
You can read Lord Dunsany’s story here:
http://www.digital-eel.com/blog/library/The_Fortress_Unvanquishable_Save_For_Sacnoth.htm
The tale can also be found in Lord Dunsany’s short story collection The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories.
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