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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.

The wizards are referred to by their offices, rather than names.

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

Professor of Revolvings

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

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

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

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Once and Future King by T.H. White

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin