10/31/2022 0 Comments Master of monsters web novelAngela Carter, ‘The Lady of the House of Love’. The prospect of being caught up in a creature’s tentacles is bad enough, but when those tentacles seem to be made of pure fire, the thought is even more terror-inducing.ĩ. A Balrog carries Gandalf down into the depths in the Mines of Moria in Tolkien’s classic fantasy novel (often wrongly labelled a ‘trilogy’, it’s actually one novel divided by Tolkien into six, rather than three, books). The Balrog is a tall, fearsome being with fiery whip-like tentacles. Is the Minotaur, the offspring of a lust-filled queen and a ferocious bull, a victim rather than a villain? He has been shut away from society and isolated from the rest of the populace, and his only hope of escape now lies with the redeemer he expects to arrive and deliver him from his existence …Ĩ. The Greek hero Theseus famously slew the Minotaur, and was able to find his way back out of the Labyrinth thanks to a ball of thread that Ariadne had provided him with.īut in this very short 1947 story by the modern master of the form, Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) narrates the story from the Minotaur’s point of view, withholding his true identity until the final few sentences. The Minotaur was kept in the Labyrinth on the Greek island of Crete. The tale of the Minotaur – the creature that was a man with the head of a bull – is well-known.
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