Thats the way that God works, of course, and so the story of scripture is a eucatastrophe. Jesus. He can't go out to see the world so he enjoys the next best thing, being there when the world comes to him. @christi-eaton I have heard that!!!!! Because there will most likely be spoiler alerts this thread, and you DO NOT DO NOT DO NOT DO NOT want those for Wingfeather. The worlds of Terry Pratchetts Discworld, George R.R. The Wingfeather Saga is coming to life as a breathtaking, multi-season TV show, thanks to the 8,000+ Angel Investors helping us raise five million dollars. Andrew Peterson: I just knew from a very young age, I think I was seven when I began to recognize that it wasnt just the world out there that was dark; it was the world inside of me that was dark too. I love names anyway. Im sure there are a lot of loose ends. Jake Meador:Right. If I cant appeal to the creative part of your brain, then Ill appeal to the theological reasoning part of your brain. Thats a big part of The Warden and the Wolf King. I actually like some of his movies a lot, but it was just too much whatever. So Leeli loves dogs. IF YOU DO NOT KNOW THESE BOOKS AND HAVE NEVER READ THEM DO NOT READ THIS! The problem was theyre also filthy. Andrew Peterson: And it really does change the way you think about your place. More on that later. Its a pretty potent imagination, and has been as long as I can remember, which can be good if youre a songwriter, or a novel writer, whatever. North! He wants rest. But please tell me the fat guy with the two black patches on his eyes in not Podo? I have never felt anything so badly at all, even in real life!!!!! So we have this idea presented right away in the text that people are made in Gods image in a way that the rest of the creation is not. The author talks about how in Narnia, we can see that people are eating, but you never see any evidence of where they get their food. Andrew Peterson: But at the same time, I didnt want the bad guys to come from nowhere, for there to be no explanation for how they went bad. S. Poythress and God, Technology and the Christian Life by Tony Reinke. He had lain in wait for the perfect moment to spring: the perfect song at the perfect hour of the day, the contrition of my hungry heart, the intricate staging of the beauty that had led me to that dewy lawn, and his holy, brooding spirit draped over the valley like a mist. Andrew Peterson: To go back to the beginning, when I was first trying to write the story, I kept running into these world-building walls, like I didnt know what kind of money they used. The remaining orphans traveled to Anniera, which had just been restored. Can you talk a bit about names and about what made that such a central theme for you? So I thought you handled it in a really true-to-life way, where youre a parent and you kind of have to push things to the side sometimes for your kids. The true love the sacrificial love. Im still in shock. The most important take away from Reinkes book is we need a Christian worldview to know what to read and not to read, and to flourish from our reading. Jake Meador: Dickerson, Matthew Dickerson. Do you like ancient and over-looked treasures? And just like the Discworld novels, the footnotes in Wingfeather resent being footnotes. Andrew Peterson: I have been feeling that, but then when I think about it in terms of eucatastrophe, I get this glimmer of hope, and I go, Oh man, the author of the story has this amazing ending in mind. And whether or not we see it in our generation, or it happens later, we trust that the author of the story is good. So I was thinking about someone like Bonifer. Hes got to figure this thing out. If its not obvious by now, Im one of the 8000 fans of the Wingfeather Saga. But other than the cruel Fangs and the constant threat of death and torture, there wasnt much to fear in Skree. And if they dont do any of that, there is a greater not-so-obvious prize. *bursts through the door* dID I HEAR THE WINGFEATHER SAGAAAAAAAAAAAAAA [] An Interview with Andrew Peterson about The Wingfeather Saga by Jake Meador October 12, 2020 [], [] I didnt have anything close to a classical education, but the Bible was always there, Peterson told Mere Orthodoxy. Amazon. For the launch of the Reading and Readers Podcast, I review the first four free books of 2021: (Jan) Deep Church by Richard Mouw and Jim Belcher, (Feb) Count It All Joy by David Jeremiah, (Mar) Tempted and Tried: Temptation and the Triumph of Christ by Russell Moore and (Apr) XXX by XXX. And he failed. Okay, so I keep sneaking back in, but I have something else to add. She and the other children helped the Kimeran rebels retake Dugtown from the fangs. Jake Meador: To get his kids to safety, and yet its still there. In fact, he and his family are at the center of a great mystery that will . I hope youll get your hands on a copy of the books and join the adventure. Please no one hit me. My kids arent growing up in a house where their parents just dont care about whats going on in their internal world. I too though was devastated at the end of the saga when Janner died and wanted to rewrite the ending but the second time I read it I realized what the ending truly means. If you like the book reviews, please consider supporting. Does that make sense? All of this ridiculousness. When Im watching Marvel movies, and the cities are getting blown up, Im always like, Who cleans this up? Im always just kind of like, My goodness, all the work that they put into that building, and its just rubble now. If there are real consequences to our decisions, then it begins to smack of the real world in a way that is more moving than otherwise. Jake Meador: Well and even after Gnag is gone, theres Fangs that are like, We dont know what were supposed to do now., Jake Meador: Weve just been evil for so long, and, Jake Meador: When I was reading that to Davy Joy my wife was in the kitchen and overheard the part where one of the one Fangs is like, What if we like being evil?. Andrew Peterson: Yeah. Just like the orphaned farmboy in Belgariad, to live a lonely life like Drizzt, always caught between two worlds like Tanis Half-Elven. The maker told kal hed know. Home Page Forums Fiction Writing Book Discussions Wingfeather Saga. Or Be Eaten, then The Monster in the Hollows and the last book is The Warden and the Wolf King. Andrew Peterson: Christopher Nolan movie. Andrew Peterson: I had temptations that I struggled with from a very young age, lust and anger among other things. But these days, when my oldest zips through a Hardy Boys book in one afternoon? She silently changed them, then cuddled up with him. While there, she was put in a torture chamber called The Coffin at least once. These characters have a very well-developed interior life, in ways that Narnia sometimes gestures toward, like with the roots of Edmunds meanness or Eustaces general unpleasantness, but I think you spent more time working on that. So buckle up and listen to how they save Sara and Janner! Janner Igiby is a 12 year old boy who wants to sail the world. Calvin understands what we discovered in the last chapter: a cohesive biblical worldview makes it possible for us to perceive and cherish the truth we read in non-Christian books. Sara was very sad and wept about the news of Janner's death, and is adopted by Nia Igiby, Janner's mother. It blew my mind how obvious his spite was. Janner, the eldest, is about to discover that the ordinary little town where they live is anything but ordinary. The sadness in the ending is the beauty. BEEP. Fork Factory Janner was captured by an old lady and taken to the Fork Factory, the place where children were forced to make weapons and armor for the Fangs. But other than that, yes!!!!!!!!! Obviously thats not Tolkiens point with him anyway. It is hard to make a case that Wingfeather, or any work of fiction, is Christian but Wingfeather has a Christian theological core unlike J.K. Rowlings Harry Potter or Philip Pullmans His Dark Materials. Click the button. As I hope I did today. The teacher said, If you want to understand Western literature, you have to have an understanding of the scripture first.. Its not just a generalized pride or ambition. And so I read constantly, I read all those books, tons of sci-fi stuff. I think that thats something that America could learn from the UK. But with Saruman, what corrupts him is just pride and it causes him to turn away from the work hes called to do. And would listen to them if they needed to tell them something. Youve been warned. "I love you . Frodos ring. Because its hard to write a story where the main character can always be let off the hook by some grownup presence; by a parent who can always kind of swoop in and save them. I had this sense that Kalmar was going to make some bad choices, and that he was going to turn into a Fang, while I was writing book one. Jesus died in my place so I could have a new name. In Revelation 2, it says God will gives us new names. Every little bit helps! So it was hard for me to be like, Heres my character sheet, and even if I did try to write a story, I was very private about it. Kudos: 3 Hits: 58 The restoring by Ellie_the_Throne_Warden She helped him escape the factory and later lead a rebellion to escape the factory along with all of the other captured children. The scariest sound in the Wingfeather series is Moo. I wanted to make it so that these werent just chess pieces moving across the board, but that you actually felt like something was at stake, on the inside. Andrew Peterson: Hes basically a George MacDonald scholar. This was my first attempt at writing, so I can look back and see myself slowly figuring out how it worked as the books were written. Hebrews 13:2 says, Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it. We show hospitality to angels without knowing it. I hadnt thought about the Revelation text, so thats interesting. "Come on!" Janner said, pulling Tink to his feet. Or Be Eaten, The Monster in the Hollows, and The Warden and the Wolf King.The series chronicles the adventures and transformations of a family . Im excited! Hes just this vain person whose decline could be guessed from his earliest days. Give this humble songwriter, musician, writer and stone wall builder a chance. So gratifying to hear you both discussing Tolkien and Lewis in relation to Wingfeather I had intuited a lot of this influence but this took me a lot deeper. I named all three of our kids. Below is the way I described it to another wingfeather friend of mine. In that message, Peterson has a note to parents. I know that the world is a mess, and I know that I am a mess, and so what I need is to see the triumph of beauty over darkness. Jake Meador: Hmm. And as I thought about that, I think you do have that element to your songwriting, and its certainly there in the stories. Life itselfthe one I was actually livingfor once outshone the life I had yearned for. Hes Tink in the first two books, and hes Kalmar in the last two. YES, THE WINGFEATHER SAGA!!!!!!!!! I wish he had finished it in a more final way. Are you a concerned Christian who asks whether fantasy books is right for Christians? I tried, I really did, but nothing came. Jake Meador: Okay, so this is circling back around to the Gnag thing, a little bit. I help you decide whether to get the book for free or to buy it if you missed the offer. It just felt like this world that was nurturing to me, because I was growing up in a, I wouldnt say fundamentalist, but pretty conservative evangelical situation, and my imagination was potent, and I didnt really like where I was. Lets listen to todays book review. The royal family is on the run, and the Fang armies of Gnag the Nameless are close behind. Coming back to our epic story, Janner goes to the Dragon Day Festival. Do you want the next best thing after the Lord of the Rings and the Chronicles of Narnia? On the surface level, he could kind of scan as a Saruman-type character: Hes this old man with white hair, whos read lots of books, hes always been at the arm of power, and hes been corrupted by it. Oh, yes, the people of Skree were quite free, as long as they were in their homes by midnight. So that was part of what I was going for. The Green Ember can be read to 5 year olds whereas Wingfeather is really for older children. At all. Or theyre removed from their parents in some way. And then I heard it. Andrew Peterson: This is another pet peeve I have with a lot of books, especially kids books. I want to start by asking about some of the stories that were contributing to the leaf mould for you, as you were writing and coming up with characters and the plot line. They are comic book gods and by that I dont just mean they are one dimensional laughable reductions of what it means to be divine, I also mean that they are in comic books, in popular culture. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! The first book was first published in 2008 and in 2020 all the books were re-released in a special edition hardcover. So thats the thing, thats what I dont like when I read a lot of fantasy, is this feeling that whoevers writing this is mainly interested in taverns, and dwarves, and magic. It can describe the world, how it functions and how to subdue it. I know a lot of people have read this amazing book series, and I was wondering: What are your thoughts on the ending of The Wingfeather Saga? Andrew Peterson: I think it comes down to the fact that I wanted the world to feel real, and therefore, I wanted the characters to feel real. Whether its a commentary or a childrens story, from Christology to eschatology, the Reading and Readers Podcast has a book for you. But when the story of our life ends, we will know. So it made sense to keep that a bit closed off. Not a half-boy half-animal. Well what does that actually mean? She might give Wingfeather a try. It should be considered Christian literature. He lives in Lincoln, NE with his wife Joie, their daughter Davy Joy, and sons Wendell, Austin, and Ambrose. Andrew Peterson: And so, I think I wanted Look, the bad guys are human too. It had to be a boy to turn the Fangs back.