The Dark Crystal
(Jim Henson Archive Series)
by
A.C.H. Smith
186 pages
Published
October 1st 1982
by Henry Holt & Co
(first published January 1st 1982)
ISBN: 0030624363
(ISBN13: 9780030624360)
Edition Language: English
THE DARK CRYSTAL reveals the coming-of-age of last Gelfling on the planet of Thra. From his quiet, dreamy existence in the secluded valley with the ponderous but cerebral urRu, Jen must suddenly depart on a Quest whose details are not fully explained to him. Jen's goal is to find a special crystal shard and reunite it with the mother crystal -- now dark with grief and anger at the senseless destruction. This crystal is coveted and guarded in the Dark Castle by the vicious race of Skeksis, who terrorize the planet with their bat spies and insect zombies. Our unlikely hero has only his flute and his wits to guide him, but several surprise friends offer help and advice along his dangerous odyssey--including the last girl Gelfling. Together they race against celestial time, as the Great Conjunction of the triple suns is imminent.
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
"I was born under a shattered sky," he finally got out.
Esta es pura nostalgia ochentera, y me consegui el libro navegando por el archivo digital. Es una novelización de la famosa pelicula de ese genio que fue Jim Henson mediante animatronics dieron vida a esta suerte de cuento de hadas oscuro acerca de un muchacho huerfano criado por unos sabios en un valle aislado que se encuentra de pronto, tras la muerte de su maestro y una vaga nocion de una profecia (porque siempre hay una , ¿no?), y una conjunción planetaria en una busqueda de un objeto que traera el bienestar del planeta .
Hay villanos, una historia antigua que se desentraña, pero el filme presenta una suerte de criaturas extrañas que son un deleite para la imaginacion.
Jen es el Gelfling, bastante ingenuo aunque valiente, que se lanza en esta aventura sin saber muy bien a lo que va ni que pasará.
Luego por una parte estan los Misticos urRu, y luego los malvados Skersis que han desolado y aterrorizado el mundo y sus habitantes. Cuando el rey de estos ultimos muere, hay luchas por el poder, pero Jen esta más preocupado porque parece que no esta solo en el mundo. Pero pronto todo es una lucha por equilibrio a más de la idea de que todo esta conectado que es propio de este autor.
my original review :
Dark fairy tale about a boy raised by mistics, a land tainted , and a prophecy because there is always one , innit?
The book did not give more details that the film, though after all the years I just remember the basics :SPOILER---> (the sort of Jekyll and Hyde version )<--SPOILER. So the kind of richness imagination of the world creatures is a bit missing.
Jen is a naive kid (a Gelfling) raised by paceful wise urRu in a isolated valley, that one day is given a dangerous mission without much background. Just that is necesary when the Great Conjuction of the three suns is about to start.
In their collective obsession with rituals there was something slavish about the urRu. It affected everything in their lives, even the ordinary business of a day—sleeping, eating, walking, talking. It was always too slow for Jen, this labored, mannered, painstaking connection of things. What was the point? Turned inward, away from the world, they were, Jen thought, collectors of knowledge for its own sake. Why did they never do anything with it? Why could they not make the only connection that seemed to him useful: applying all their knowledge to change the world?
In the journey he enconuntered danger and a friend: Kira, another survivor of a massacre commited by the evil Skerksis , a sort of buzzard/reptile villains, that enslave and made atrocious experiments with the other sentients beings in the planet.
The sort of reluctant hero is forced to go to the Black Castle in search of the Crystal to end with the horrors in Thra.
She understood why. Jen represented hope; and hope, she instinctively knew, would always be shadowed with pain, just as her despair, now, in the niche behind the tapestry, was shadowed with something like the opposite of pain—a numbed uncaring, an acceptance of the thrall of death, almost a fervent wish for it.
The idea of all things are interconnected is around the tale.
Also about scientist abusing power and destroying the balance in the world.
Well, enjoy the movie, friends. Seems like Netflix is about to put a sort a prequel after all this years. The rest of canon is in graphic novels
This is a novelization of the film "The Dark Crystal"(1982), a wonderful film to watch made with animatronics - tech that I'm most fan.
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