The Fair and Fey Series

The 2nd edition has been published and approved for premium distribution! This is the riveting third book of the blockbuster series, The Fair and Fey, translated from the High Elven of Sashegh’s third journal by J. Ellyne. The series began 9,000 years ago when Sashegh and her people came from the planet Mag to settle on an island in our world. They endured conflicts with savage natives and Sashegh came of age, finding love with both men and women. One in particular, a young native Maiden named Nammi, was her true love. Circumstances forced her to leave Nammi behind when Sashegh’s mother decided to take her, along with several other friends and family, on a sailboat of Magin design to the North Country land across the ocean. The Magin lead long lives so Sashegh outlived Nammi by many years. In the second book Nammi was reincarnated as Alikki, an Elf of Maahilund in the North Country, and they were reunited. They became best friends but in her second life Alikki, unlike Nammi, was strictly heterosexual. A wizard named Vainamoinen meets Sashegh and turns her and the other Magin into Elves. They join with the Elves of Maahilund and together they battle demons and the Devil who are determined to exterminate them. You may have been saddened by the death of Sashegh at the hands of the Devil in the ending of the second book. On the other hand, perhaps you suspected she would be reincarnated, like Nammi was. How else could she have written her third journal? In the third book we find her reincarnated as an Elf in her new life, thousands of years after her first life, with a new name, Vilya. This book, The Elves of Arthannegh, is a true epic, twice the length of the first book. It tells of the beginning of the ending of Elves in our world and the beginning of the beginning of the Arthurian Legend (the romance of Uther and Igraine), all happening in the same realm at the same time. There are several wars: Britons fighting Romans, Saxons fighting Britons, and Elves fighting Orcs. The Elves are involved in all of this. Vainamoinen reappears too, also with a new name, Merlin, and gives advice and visions of the future to both Elven and British friends, manipulating them for his own purposes. Underneath all the plotting, warfare and bloodshed are two warm romantic love stories. One is the story of Uther and Igraine, the other is the story of Vilya (Sashegh) and the woman she has loved for thousands of years and with whom she always seems to reconnect. The tie between the Elves and the Britons is Igraine who, according to the Arthurian legends, was half-Elven. Because of her, the Elves and the Britons become allies and fight the Saxons and the Orcs together. If this book doesn’t get your heart racing, you should check your pulse, you might be dead!

If you enjoyed the steamy love scenes in the first book, you will be happy to find the love scenes in Maahilund are even more erotic. If the battle scenes in Maginaugh kept you on the edge of your seat, you will find the bloody battles between the Demons and the Elves of Maahilund to be even more riveting. In the first book, Sashegh was a young girl just coming of age and experiencing for the first time extreme dangers, passionate love, and loyal friendships. Her adventures seemed to happen around her, affecting her without directly involving her. In Maahilund, she is the central protagonist, having matured into a wise and brave woman who takes charge of her life and demonstrates great leadership abilities. Her mother finds a small uninhabited island off the southern coast of a far northern country which might be in the area called Finland today. They settle there and build a castle to live in. The mainland is not uninhabited however. On Maginaugh they had to deal with natives of primitive cultures, some friendly, and some hostile. In the area around and inside Maahilund they will discover there are Gnomes, Elves, and Demons. Sashegh meets a wizard who has the ability to turn her and all her people into Elves. He teaches them how to cast magical spells. Sashegh reminds him of his mother and so he favors her, making her most powerful of all the Elves. Another group of Elves live on the mainland in an underground city named Maahilund. Sashegh meets one of them in the forest one night and they become best friends. Sashegh feels drawn to her, thinking the girl might be her lover from Maginaugh, Nammi reincarnated, seeing many physical similarities. She wishes they could be more than friends. Sashegh learns of her destiny from the wizard. She must lead the Elves in epic battles with the Demons and other evil beings. She must face the Devil himself in an ultimate struggle between good and evil. By reading the Fair and Fey series you will learn the origins of the Elves and hear of their destiny. Where do they fit in the evolutionary chain of sentient beings? Why are they so seldom seen today? Elves are sometimes referred to in literature as the Fair Folk. Other times they are called the Fey. From these terms the word Fairy evolved. Hence the title for the series: The Fair and Fey. In fact, the Elves of Maahilund are both Fair (beautiful) and Fey (having a grim destiny). Laced throughout these adventures are lovely, happy, and romantic moments when your favorite characters are enjoying life to the fullest. Maahilund will inspire you to do the same and fight for that which is good in your life.

Her mother, the queen has established a small colony on an island in the narrows between three great lakes. She and her people have worked hard to establish a civilization far beyond anything the natives of the region can imagine, thousands of years before such things will exist in their world. The relationships they form with the natives are sometimes friendly, sometimes hostile, and sometimes loving and passionate. She is forced to grow into maturity fast as she becomes immersed with her people in a struggle for life and freedom. During her adventures she finds and experiences a love different from any she ever imagined and also deeper than any love most people experience. The contrasts between good times and bad are sudden and stark. She has inherited her beauty, strength and wisdom from her mother who is a strong and brave woman fighting fiercely to keep her people safe despite the hardships they have to endure in a harsh world they are not prepared to cope with. Friendly natives join forces with them and the two cultures try to merge in order to fend off common enemies. This is a tale of adventure, suspense, and passion, set in a long ago time. Is it a fantasy or is it history, passed down over eons to become part of today’s mythology?

This is the riveting fourth book of The Fair and Fey. The series began 9,000 years ago when Sashegh and her people came from the planet Mag to settle on an island in our world. They endured conflicts with savage natives and Sashegh came of age, finding love with both men and women. One in particular, a young native maiden named Nammi, was her true love. The central, and ongoing, theme of The Elves of Avalon, Book 4 of The Fair and Fey, is a romantic and sensual love story between Vilya and another Elf named Narya. This love has spanned millennia, through death and reincarnation, from the time when they met in Maginaugh, Book 1 of the Fair and Fey as Sashegh and Nammi. The Elves of Avalon, is a blockbuster, almost double the length of the first book. It tells of the ending of Elves in our world and the first half of the true history of the Arthur Pendragon, including his relationship with his sister Anna, aka Morganna Le Fey. They love each other but Guinevere steals Arthur's heart and Morganna and her son go to northern Wales to live with King Lot. The Elves and King Arthur form an alliance to battle both Orcs and Anglo-Saxons. This alliance is a carryover from the alliance the Elves formed with Uther Pendragon, Arthur's father, In Book 3, The Elves of Arthannegh. What if Arthur Pendragon did not want to be a king and for most of his military career was not a king but only the war leader of the united armies of the kings of Britannia? What if there was no such person as Lancelot? In fact, romanticists added him to the legend as pure fiction almost a thousand years after Arthur’s last battle. What if Guinevere was not a nice person as she is so often portrayed? She stole Arthur from his first wife Anna Pendragon, aka Morganna Le Fey. What if Arthur needed the help of a small band of Elves to accomplish his goals? What if Arthur had a Christian father (Uther Pendragon) but a Pagan, half-Elven mother (Igraine) and was neither Christian nor Pagan? All but one of the preceding things are provable facts of historical record. The fantasy element of this book is the story of the Elves of Avalon. It might be true as well. No one has provided proof that Elves exist but Tolkien convinced some of his readers that Elves really did exist at some time in the past. Some people have stated that Tolkien invented the trope of Elves. This is not true. In one of his books Tolkien wrote about the time before the setting for his Lord of the Rings trilogy. He said that the first Elves migrated south from the "North Country" to Middle Earth. Tolkien did tons of research for his books, spanning decades of work. It seems likely he got the idea of Elves from the North Country (the Noldor) from reading Finnish mythology. This same mythology is the source for material about the Elves of Maahilund in the second book of J. Ellyne's The Fair and Fey series. Finnish mythology is full of tales about Elves called the Maahiset who live in an underground city in ancient Finland and have magical powers. What if Middle Earth later became known as Germania after the Elves left Middle Earth and sailed into the West (Britannia)? Ancient Celtic legends are also full of tales about Elves aka Feys. These are the background bones for how the Elves and Arthur Pendragon crossed paths in this latest saga of the Fair and Fey series, The Elves of Avalon. An Elf named Vilya is the main character in both books three and four. Merlin is her mentor. They met in a previous lifetime, 8,000 years ago in Maahilund. Merlin went by the name Vainamoinen at that time and for a while he went by the name Gandalf in Middle Earth. Vilya helped Arthur’s father, Uther Pendragon, in book three, the Elves of Arthannegh and after his death, she carried baby Arthur to Avalon at Merlin’s urging, to keep him safe. In book 4, many years later after many battles with Orcs, Demons and Anglo-Saxons, a few of the surviving Elves might return to Avalon but not Arthur, not yet anyw

It's taken J. Ellyne two years to write this book since publishing Book 4 of The Fair and Fey, The Elves of Avalon. There are two main reasons it took so long. This is the final book in the series and she wanted a conclusive ending, not leaving any plot threads dangling. Everyone knows if there are dangling threads, people will pull on them and the whole fabric unravels. There were soooo many dangling threads in the Fair and Fey series at the end of the fourth book. She didn't want to contrive ways to tie them all up. Ms. Ellyne's usual manner of writing is to dream about the books first. These are lucid dreams in which the characters are real and do whatever they want. They aren't puppets under her control. She had to wait until her characters decided to wrap everything up into a conclusive ending. The second reason for this book taking so long was the lack of research material to help guide these dreams. Ms. Ellyne has been accustomed to reading the research first and then dreaming about it. She found only one book covering what might have happened, with actual evidence, after Arthur's final battle to unite Britannia under a single high king, driving out all the foreign invaders. It's a great book: "Arthur's Battle for Britain" by Eric Wamsley. It contains half true history, backed up by historical documents and archeological findings. The other half of Wamsley's book is a story, filling in the gaps that history and archeology have left in what might have been the true life and adventures of Arthur Pendragon, War Leader but never a king. There are twelve famous battles Arthur won to unite Britain. In books three and four of The Fair and Fey, the Elves are his allies, helping him win. Did you know that real ancient historical documents claim that Arthur's mother, Igraine, was half Elven? Evidently there used to be Elves in Northern Britannia and one of them was Arthur's grandmother. The Elves helped both Arthur and his father Uther Pendragon win their battles and they helped the Elves win their battles with Orcs and Demons -- well most of them anyway. The rest are where the "Fey" part comes in. "Fey" means to have a sad destiny. It is also the word that the word "Fairy" derives from -- an alternate historical term for Elves. The battle of Camlan, in which other authors such as Mallory wrote of Arthur's death, happened after his 12th victory and as you know, it was a devastating and final defeat. The events that led to that battle, the battle itself, and what happened to Britannia after Arthur's death were covered in Wamsley's book but he admits the evidence as to their reality is scant. That's okay; Two Worlds Changed is fiction, based loosely on fact -- alt history if you will, These events in Britannia are only half of the story. All legends say Arthur was taken to Avalon after his death to see if he could be healed by Avalon healers. Didn't you always want to know if the healing succeeded? Well now you can, thanks to my fifth novel. In book four, "The Elves of Avalon," Avalon is in Otherworld, which also agrees with other legends. The Elves have left our world to reside there. Without revealing a spoiler here regarding all that happens to them in Otherworld, it can be said that Otherworld changes drastically due to the experiences of the Elves there.. Just as Britannia changes drastically after Arthur leaves our world. As we know from real history, the Anglo-Saxons returned and reconquered Britannia many decades after his departure. This happened because, without a leader to keep them in line, all the kings of the many British Kingdoms started warring with each other again and weakening Britannia, leaving it vulnerable to foreign attack. It didn't happen right away. Arthur's United Kingdom lasted for over a hundred years after he was taken to Avalon for healing. This is what the title Two Worlds Cg hanged means -- how and why Otherworld and Britannia both changed is revealed in book 5.