The Hollow Hills is a novel by Mary Stewart. It is the second in a quintet of novels covering the Arthurian Legends. This book is preceded by The Crystal Cave and succeeded by The Last Enchantment. The Hollow Hills was written in 1970.
The protagonist of this story is Merlin, the legendary wizard, here depicted as an ordinary mortal but one with extreme creative intelligence and occasional clairvoyance. Merlin is overseeing the birth and raising ...
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The Hollow Hills is a novel by Mary Stewart. It is the second in a quintet of novels covering the Arthurian Legends. This book is preceded by The Crystal Cave and succeeded by The Last Enchantment. The Hollow Hills was written in 1970.
The protagonist of this story is Merlin, the legendary wizard, here depicted as an ordinary mortal but one with extreme creative intelligence and occasional clairvoyance. Merlin is overseeing the birth and raising of Arthur Pendragon, because he has foreseen that Arthur will become a great king who will unite all of Britain -- which is now only loosely united as a group of smaller kingdoms with a High King (Arthur's father Uther Pendragon) in charge.
This novel covers the time from when Arthur Pendragon was conceived to when he was crowned a king.
In this version, Merlin's father is Aurelius Ambrosius, the Roman war leader, Uther Pendragon's brother, making Merlin Arthur's cousin. Merlin is depicted as twenty-two years old at the beginning of the book,...
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