r/ElricofMelnibone

I'm a newbie to the Elric of Melniboné and about a third into the book and my biggest gripe is both Moorcock's pacing (Yyrkoon's assassination attempt is very breezed through in my opinion) and Moorcock's tendency to simply explain everything in a very edgy way; his description of the power of Elric's sorcercy to easily reconquer the world and rule like the worst tyrant, Cymoril's description of Elric's incomprehensible mindset to Dyvim Tvar and the description of Valharik's ambitions all read as very Wattpadish to me, as if they were written by an edgy adolescent who can't muster enough patience and skill to show these things in characters' actions and interactions, but simply has to lay it upon us thick and heavy. It made Elric feel like a standard issue brooding Gary Stu at first, full-on Sasuke, until the plot took hold and Elric's character started shining out from the cover of the edgy descriptions.

I was rather disappointed when I first read through several pages, since this is Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné, one of the founders of modern fantasy genre and I had rather high hopes for it, but the characters seemed rather one-dimensional, the plot was moving at breakneck speeds, Moorcock spent most of the pages just babbling. I feel that this is slowly changing now that Elric is about to go search for Yyrkoon in the south after summoning Arioch and action is about to take precedence, but man, I almost put the book down out of sheer disappointment.

From what I understand there are some things missing from them.

I'm shure there is variation in the different depictions and I have only read the first 2 books but didn't notice anything so stand out like the Ruby throne or anything on banners.