I know you know this...

[thanate]

So I tried to ask this last week and got nothing particularly helpful, which I suspect means that I was asking my question wrong. Here is attempt #2:

Posit: You are going on an exciting expensive vacation through the Lands of Faerie. You've got a fine cabin in a vehicle that is rather like the cross between a cruise ship and one of those giant observation things they drive out to go look at polar bears. What places would you expect to see, or be disappointed if you didn't? All forms of fiction are fair game (anything from traditional folklore to your favorite MMORPG)

Starter list, cadged from Wikipedia and stuff:

Annwyn
Avalon
Tir na nOg
the Seelie/Unseelie courts (ok, they aren't fixed places)

Knockma (fr Martha Wells, The Element of Fire)
Rivendel/Gray Havens/other places with elves (Tolkien)
er, Narnia?
Neverland (Peter Pan)

Sleeping Beauty's castle/Faerie Market (of some sort, lots to choose from)/someone's dwarven mines (any names come to mind? Besides Moria, that is)/etc?

...Stuff like that. Particularly looking for place names, but also what they'd show off ("Over there on your right you'll see the lions, and coming up ahead on the left will be the state line between Utah and Colorado..." that sort of thing)

Comments

[thanate.livejournal.com]

Oh, and which Ice Queen?

[heuchera.livejournal.com]

There's more than one Ice Queen? Fairy tale, two kids, boy is captured and girl rescues?? Possibly I just have a corrupt memory of a particular picture book that got lost and which I still covet.

Aha. I was thinking of The Snow Queen. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Snow_Queen

Dang, I miss that book.

[heuchera.livejournal.com]

Google is wonderful. I was thinking of this one illustrated by Errol Le Cain:

http://www.michaelspornanimation.com/splog/?p=1037

[thanate.livejournal.com]

Ok. That's in the Andrew Lang treasury (I think) as well.

There's also the Joan D Vinge novel (which was also "Snow Queen") and a bunch of fiction adaptations. Somebody had a grown-up short story version of it in a recent short story collection that was pretty interesting-- something about endless winter in some Russian city and the girl did things with greenhouses.