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List of literary works - Wikiquote - 0 views

  • American Gods by Neil Gaiman
  • The Bartimaeus Trilogy: The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud
  • The Awakening by Kate Chopin
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  • Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
  • The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
  • Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
  • Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
  • The Discworld Novels by Terry Pratchett
  • The DUNE Chronicles by Frank Herbert
  • Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
  • Emma by Jane Austen
  • Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
  • Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  • The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
  • The Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov
  • The Giver by Lois Lowry
  • Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
  • Grendel by John Gardner
  • Hamlet by William Shakespeare
  • The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  • The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
  • Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
  • Human, All Too Human by Friedrich Nietzsche
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
  • I am Legend by Richard Matheson
  • The Iliad of Homer by Alexander Pope
  • Inferno by Dante Alighieri
  • Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
  • Job: A Comedy of Justice by Robert A. Heinlein
  • Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
  • The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
  • Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
  • Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
  • The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
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Unseen University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • The official motto of Unseen University is "Nunc Id Vides, Nunc Ne Vides", loosely translated as "Now you see it, now you don't".
  • a blue field bearing a book of magic spells, with copper clasps, over a pointed hat
  • Younger wizards enthusiastically experiment, pushing back the boundaries of knowledge and making new discoveries about the nature of the universe.
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  • An eighth son of an eighth son is automatically a wizard.
  • If a wizard happens to have an eighth son, this child will be a "wizard squared" or "Sourcerer", as he generates his own magic and can therefore do just about anything with no effort.
  • Wizards grade magical ability in a series of levels, the highest of which is eight.
  • Like the Bodleian Library at Oxford, the UU Library features chained books – although at Oxford this is done to protect the books from the students, whereas at UU it is done to protect the students from the books.
  • The high concentration of magical lore has warped the Library interior into a locus of L-Space where the concepts of distance and direction are only vaguely defined
  • Within L-Space the Library contains every book ever written, possibly written, unwritten and yet to be written. Since the contents of all libraries are in L-Space, it is possible to enter a Library in one city and exit in another. Access to libraries of other times or other realities is restricted to the Librarian himself. People entering the deeper parts of the library usually carry chalk, until the chalk turns into something else.
  • Professor of Revolvings
  • Unlike his predecessors, Ridcully seems to have had a very successful and above all, injury free career as Archchancellor. He finally put a halt to the traditional method of promotion simply by being indestructible. This is related to his habit of springing up behind would-be assassins, shouting loudly at them and banging their head repeatedly in the door. He is also known as Ridcully the Brown, possibly as a parody of J. R. R. Tolkien's wizards by color like Gandalf the Grey, Saruman the White or Radagast the Brown.
  • Ridcully has shown the occasional flash of magical skill.
  • the most important thing about magic is knowing when not to use it
  • The wizards are referred to by their offices, rather than names.
  • Senior Wrangler
  • Lecturer in Recent Runes
  • Chair of Oblique Frogs
  • Chair of Indefinite Studies
  • Lecturer in Creative Uncertainty
  • Reader in Esoteric Studies
  • Professor of Applied Anthropics
  • Professor of Extreme Horticulture
  • Professor of Dust, Fluff, and Miscellaneous Particles
  • Lecturer in Vindictive Astronomy
  • Professor of Recondite Architecture and Origami Map-Folding
  • Prehumous Professor of Morbid Bibliomancy
  • Posthumous Professor of Morbid Bibliomancy
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Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (2003 movie): Why is the Witch King of the Nazgul... - 0 views

  • Being small and pathetic seeming, Eowyn (& Merry) are uniquely placed to exploit the Witch King's arrogance.
  • His single-mindedness about power and his narrow conception of it leads him to not fear any humans - no man can kill him, and the possibility that a halfling and a woman might do it would simply not occur to a mind such as his.
  • "Do not pursue him! He will not return to this land. Far off yet is his doom, and not by the hand of man will he fall".
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  • the prophecy in itself wasn't the thing which imbued either Harry or Angmar with power, it was merely a record of sorts, noting a future occurrence
  • he was stating what is already known
  • Tolkien is famous for leaving loose ends
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Defining the Genre: High Fantasy | Fandomania - 0 views

  • the Hero’s Quest
  • Epic Fantasy
  • there is a hero, sometimes of humble origins, who must rise above his or her circumstances and is compelled to act by conditions and/or events outside of their control
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  • We see this character grow up and become someone great, defeat the odds, and challenge the evil and corrupt.
  • The hero may not always succeed at first try, but they will find means either within themselves or from outside sources to continue on their quest, which if they fail, would have world-reaching consequences.
  • a completely developed secondary world
  • a portal into another world
  • the “world within a world”
  • series
  • episodic installments
  • high fantasy is often based on myth or legend
  • a hero’s tale
  • Matters beyond him and magic turn his life, which would have been otherwise dull and ordinary, into the stuff of legend.
  • Echoes of these stories have been passed down through the ages and were at one point rooted in local myth, tradition, lore, or legend.
  • These stories still stir imaginations today and influence epic literature by their fantastical nature.
  • High fantasy has roots as far back as fairy tale; they are human stories passed down, aggrandized and lasting.
  • wizard
  • antihero
  • rough around the edges, has a haunted past, and isn’t afraid to do what must be done to achieve his goal
  • may be acting on the “good” side, but he’s not a “good” character even if he does grow in that direction
  • it is possible to bring high fantasy into a more modern setting
  • subgenres are not mutually exclusive
  • medieval type setting
  • how fantasy and the fantastical elements affect the world
  • A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin
  • The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander
  • The Once and Future King by T.H. White
  • The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
  • Lord Foul’s Bane and The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant series by Stephen R. Donaldson
  • A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Bundlr - Lord of the Rings - 0 views

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  • Celeborn
  • Denethor
  • Durin
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  • Part of the attraction of the The Lord of the Rings is, I think, due to the glimpses of a large history in the background: an attraction like that of viewing far off an unvisited island, or seeing the towers of a distant city gleaming in a sunlit mist.
  • Pippin
  • Merry
  • canon will be defined as anything pertaining to Middle-earth that was written by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Turgon
  • Captain of Gondor
  • Killed a Balrog in single combat
  • Glorfindel
  • The Witch King of the Nazgul
  • saved Frodo from all nine nazgul
  • Prophesied the Witch King would not be slain by a man
  • Radagast
  • Frodo
  • even in a mythical Age there must be some enigmas, as there always are.
  • John Howe
  • led the armies of Rivendell
  • Beregond
  • Rosie Cotton
  • internally consistent with themselves and any other directly related works
  • The Houses of Healing
  • Elrond
  • Isildur
  • Tolkien's writing is laden with details and hints
  • Minas Tirith
  • Saruman
  • Gandalf
  • Gimli
  • Legolas
  • Galadriel
  • Boromir
  • Faramir
  • Aragorn
  • I would draw some of the great tales in fullness, and leave many only placed
  • Tauriel
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Telepathy - Television Tropes & Idioms - 0 views

  • Mind Reading
  • Telepathy
  • Alfred Bester's novel The Demolished Man
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  • The Riftwar Cycle
  • Alan Dean Foster
  • John Wyndham's classic The Chrysalids
  • Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover series
  • Maximum Ride
  • Mentioned at the end of The Lord of the Rings
  • J. R. R. Tolkien wrote a more detailed account of telepathy among Ainur (lesser deities)
  • Mercedes Lackey s
  • Mindspeech
  • Mercedes Lackey
  • frequency
  • Global Guardians
  • Larry Niven's Known Space
  • One of the Hitchhiker's Guide entries references an entire planet of beings who were cursed with telepathy. Everyone on there entire planet could hear every thought in every other mind on the planet, whether they wanted to or not — which quickly threatened to drive them bonkers from information overload and/or sheer boredom
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  • NetHack
  • Project 0
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  • FreakAngels
  • Think Before You Think
  • Whateley Academy
  • Whateley Universe
  • The Doctor
  • Firebird Trilogy
  • The TARDIS
  • Firefly
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