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jvan 's review for:
The Anvil of Ice
by Michael Scott Rohan
Many years ago I read this series and really, really loved it. Entirely forgotten as the decades drifted past, I was reminded of it and ordered a copy of this book to see how it held up. Pretty well, I guess? It's the story of a boy who trains as a blacksmith, in a world where that is a fully magical art, and is duped by his master into creating the most potent and awful tools for the advancement of evil, and then sets about trying to right that. One thing I'd forgotten (or more likely not even noticed) is how Tolkien-esque a whole lot of it is: the writing in places, many of the characters, some of the history and setting. It's not at all Middle Earth (well, not hardly at all) but it is very much in the mode. It was fine, I guess? If the books were readily and cheaply available I'd probably get the other two and finish out the trilogy, and maybe read the fourth much later book that I never got around to, but I don't know if I will do that or not. Seems a lot of effort for something that now I just find pretty all right, and not excellent.