Um yes about Garner, though what got up my nose was that the Welsh characters were powerless to solve their historic recurring Welsh-rooted situation themselves. No, it took the Brit equivalent of a Mighty Whitey with his Received Pronunciaton to solve it. Dispels the curse of centuries in a few sentences. Yeah, go him.

Garner is still iffy in my books once past the early fantasy stuff- Weirdstone of Brisingamen and Moon of Gomrath. Roger, and the guy in Red Shift, are pretty unlikable by me.