Lud-in-the-Mist\'s unconventional elements, responsible for its appeal to the fantasy readership, are understood better if they are analyzed in the context of Hope Mirrlees\' whole oeuvre.
It concerned his only son Ranulph -- Ranulph was twelve, he g.
In the spring the Seneschal of Dorimare had his first real anxiety.
Bad business.
But no Luddite ever had any truck with fairies or fairyland.
Between the mountains and the sea; between the sea and fairyland lay the Free State of Dorimare.
Lud-in-the-Mist\'s unconventional elements, responsible for its appeal to the fantasy readership, are understood better if they are analyzed in the context of Hope Mirrlees\' whole oeuvre