Peril for Mithgar

Dennis Lester McKiernan, born april 4 1932, is best known for his High Fantasy The Iron Tower, the first triology set in Mithgar he wrote, just after the duology The Silver Call. The Mithgar world began as a sequel to The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien. Although authorisation was asked to publish, this was not given and his publisher asked him to rewrite the tale, but now set in a different world. Mithgar was born. Although the first story written resembles The Lord of the Rings, Mithgar is a world that stands on its own.

Although The Dragonstone is the eleventh published story in Mithgar, chronologicaly this is the first story. It is a typical Epic Fantasy which has high stakes, because the entire world of Mithgar stands at the brink of allout war.

Arin sees a vision in the flames and takes a quest to understand the vision, and hopefully alter it, because it would bring allout warfare to Mithgar, and the famine and destruction it takes with it. It even shows the Dragons taking their part in it also. With the help of some mages she learns that the vision also holds some instructions for her too. She is to search for and take only with her the people from a verse. And so she sets out on a quest ...

The writing style resembles the writing style of Tolkien, in that there are entire chapters that depict the journey that is being taken. The chapters are of differing length, some not more than one page (usualy the ones with the journey description), others maybe ten pages. At some points McKiernan uses older English, which might be harder to read and understand. The writer warns the reader for this before the story starts in his forewords.