#Rowan of Rin

[thisisindeedausername]

"i grew up reading percy jackson", "i grew up reading harry potter" yeah ok but where are the people that grew up reading deltora quest i need to find my people

[lindalofbroome]

Roddacember 2024 ❤

Roddacember runs during December to celebrate all of Emily Rodda’s books. With a new prompt every day, make a piece of fan content of your choice. You can draw some art, write fic, make a playlist, rant about something, or whatever you vibe with! Remember to tag it #Roddacember 2024 so we can check it out <3 I’ve also created an AO3 collection for those who would like to write fics!

Update

Trying out a different hybrid structure with the first half being questions or lil activities we can do together and the second is the traditional one-word prompts For the visual I condensed the prompts into a keyword so it would fit, but they are expanded below the read more. I have also created a master doc which contains the prompts of all years.

Notes

A reminder that you don’t have to commit to every day. Take care of yourself. You can make it more manageable by skipping days. Feel free to interpret the prompts as metaphorically or as literally as you want! If there’s anything you are confused about, feel free to ask me in the notes or DMs or whatever. You can also check out what the fandom did previously at #Roddacember 2023, #Roddacember 2022, #Roddacember 2021, #Roddacember 2020 and #Roddacember 2019.

Prompts in text:

- Google docs (recommended) - Reblog

[toshitophchan]

Roddacember 2023 Day 12 | Memorable Deception Moment

Deception is either making you go 0.0 or >:O, there is no inbetween

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[haveyoureadthisfantasybook]

vote yes if you have finished the entire book.

vote no if you have not finished the entire book.

(faq · submit a book)

[sweetzscore]

favorite underrated book series?

Anon when I tell you this ask got me jumping out my bed to sift through my bookshelf. Warning for a lot of words

A while back I read these old books ‘The adventures of the Wishing Chair’ and ‘The Wishing Chair, again’ by Enid Blyton. They’re children’s books, published in 1937 and 1950, respectively.

Another series I’m fairly fond of is Jessica Townsend’s ‘Nevermoor, the Trials of Morrigan Crow’ (fun fact, my copy is signed!) it follows the story of a girl cursed to die on a certain day at midnight, but a mysterious man comes to take her away to a secret city called Nevermoor, there’s three books in the series as far as I’m aware.

For younger readers (or older ones, too!), the ‘Friday Barnes’ series by R.A Spratt follows an exceptional girl surrounded by non-exceptional people. She solves a mystery for her detective uncle and uses the prize money to send herself to an exclusive boarding school. Chaos ensues

You didn’t think I was done, did you? Because I’m not.

ANOTHER great one (and I don’t know how underrated it is) is Australian author Emily Rodda’s (AKA Jennifer Rowe) ‘Rowan Of Rin’!! I’m pretty sure her other series ‘Deltora Quest’ is more popular (I haven’t read it) but I do own a large hardback of all five Rowan stories shoved into one book. It follows a timid farmer boy forced to go on a journey up a mountain to save his village

Anon you have awakened a beast in me. Unfortunately I am a fucking nerd, always have been and I love books to death (even if I don’t touch one for months) and am prepared to talk about it for hours.

In conclusion: I don’t have a particular favourite I do, however, have a collection of series that I love that you’ve maybe never heard of.

And you can ignore this part if you want to because now I’m just prattling about the Authors:

So R.A Spratt is an Australian author, also responsible for ‘Hamlet is not okay!’, which surprised me because I know that book but I didn’t know it was by her! Wow

Townsend is also Australian, but she doesn’t really have any books beyond Nevermoor. And actually, I’m noticing a trend, because Emily Rodda is also Australian. Makes sense, because I’m Australian, of course I’d be reading Australian authors.

Anyway Theo is a fucking nerd thanks byeee

[lampochkaart]

I don't think I ever posted those illustrations to Rowan of Rin (Rowan of the Bukshah/Rowan and the Ice Creepers) that I made for my artschool.

Here they are!

[areawest]

having an intense obsession with the rowan of rin books is like a rite of passage for autistic australian children

[on-a-quest]

Emily Rodda books (Taylor's Version)

[goawaypopup]

Roddacember Day 17: Solution

"For every problem, a solution. For every poison, an antidote."

"And then, suddenly, something gave way, and the answer was there before his eyes. He saw a jar, held in small webbed hands. The jar was half filled with silvery liquid. As Rowan watched, the liquid changed color, becoming as blue as the sky. The blue changed to green. Then the liquid changed again, losing all color, becoming crystal clear. And a voice spoke."

"To mix the brew that wakes Death Sleep Fill one spread hand with silver deep. In hungry pool moons raise their heads. Pluck one and add the tears it sheds. Stir slowly with new fighter's quill Three times, no more, and let it still. Add venom from your greatest fear - One drop - and then the truth is clear. (quotes from Rowan and the Keeper of the Crystal)

Pretty much the whole of the book is dedicated to the unraveling and creation of this recipe. It's remarkably fitting to the situation, presumably with Death Sleep chosen by the Keeper (spoilers) specifically because its ingredients could all be found on the Island and with a decent level of challenge. And the colours, too, are a clear parallel to the three Maris clans, working together for once.

It's all almost suspiciously fitting. It's not that easy to combine naturally-occurring ingredients and get three different dramatic chemical reactions (indicated by colour change! Remember your chemistry!)

It almost makes me think this potion must be magical in nature. This is all very symbolic stuff, pieces of the same microcosm of an ecosystem in that pool - and there's no real-life chemical that will be ruined by stirring it a fourth time.

That makes this the closest look we've ever had at a bona-fide potion in the world of Deltora. It doesn't have to be a sorcerer doing the crafting, like Tamm and possibly Ava - it can be anyone who knows the proper steps to combine powerful components from the land.

Although, come to think of it... we don't actually know what this one does. A poison really shouldn't require a magic potion to fix it, unless it's some kind of publicly known trial, and it feels unlikely that they would risk bothering the Great Serpent on purpose that frequently.

Perhaps Death Sleep is just devious enough that it needs that, and it deletes a particular chunk of your brain or something, and this brew just grows it back. But I think I have a more elegant theory, knowing the depths of the Keeper's cunning.

Rowan got that rhyme from the Keeper's mind, secretly with their cooperation. It wouldn't be too difficult to change a couple of words. There could be a way simpler, backhand method to cure Death Sleep, which the Keeper would have used shortly before Rowan returned - they even tell him to just smear a tiny amount on Jiller's lips, leaving a whole delectable jar of this stuff for them to keep. And this potion's actual use could be anything sufficiently powerful to justify the risk, that ends in -eep, something that Orin sought to make in his time.

Become sheep? Summon Jeep? Make a flan fit to make a grown Maris weep? I dunno, we don't really have any pointers here, and the rhyme's wording could have just been changed too.

Perhaps there's more to the story hidden in there.

[draconiclore]

Emily Rodda, about to invent the most horrifying monster known to man: i'm a children's book author :3

[theoakleafpancake]

Alright, I’m doing it. I’m expanding beyond DQ and am heading into the other series

[lindalofbroome]

Roddacember 2024

sorry for the delay!! almost finished finalising the prompts and aiming to post them tomorrow for those that might want to start preparing.

this one is a hybrid with half one-word prompts and half questions or lil activities that we can do together for those that want to join.

no idea what i'm talking about? search #roddacember or #roddacember 2023 or date back to 2019 for some fandom community posts! if that doesn't work try searching for that tag on my blog, i tried to reblog everything and tag accordingly! come join us on discord if you want to chat about it!

[toshitophchan]

Roddacember 2023 Day 21 | Abstract Nuture

Love when having allergies and needing to be looked after with medicine saves the day

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Round 1, Poll 3: The Spiderwick Chronicles vs Rowan of Rin

[littlesmokecloud-yan]

Idk if anyone else got into this Emily Rodda series as much as I did, but I'm 💯 down for a Rowan of Rin TV series