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* SuperPersistentPredator: In ''Literature/TheFortressUnvanquishableSaveForSacnoth'', Leothric learns that the "dragon-crocodile" Tharagavverug eats one human being every day and always pursues his chosen prey until he catches it. On account of this, the villagers who live near Tharagavverug's marsh have entirely given up running away from him, but have developed the custom of all going out in the morning in order to let Tharagavverug pick his victim, as this is quicker and less troublesome than having him hunt for a victim in the village. The narrator says they also tried climbing trees, but Tharagavverug would cut down the tree by using the scaly ridge on his back as a saw.
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I'm sure there are lots of similarities to be found between Dunsany and Tolkien, but this in-depth analysis of one character surely doesn't belong in the creator's description section.
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* Tolkien's Ulmo is described in very similar terms to Dunsany's Slid, whose soul is by the sea and whose voice is in all waters and all who hear that call must wander until they at last reach the sea. In his storm-causing aspect, Slid resembles the Maia Osse; both are described as 'exulting' or 'rejoicing' when raising a storm.
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* "The Sword of Welleran'' was greatly admired by Creator/RobertEHoward, creator of Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian, and may be considered one of the starting points of SwordAndSorcery fantasy. It shares this place with 'The Fortress Unvanquishable, save for Sacnoth.'
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* "The Sword of Welleran'' Welleran" was greatly admired by Creator/RobertEHoward, creator of Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian, and may be considered one of the starting points of SwordAndSorcery fantasy. It shares this place with 'The "The Fortress Unvanquishable, save Save for Sacnoth.'Sacnoth".
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* DyingDream: The narrator of the short story "In the Twilight" capsizes with a boat and bumps his head on a boat's keel. As he desperately tries swimming upwards, he hears the people in the boats above him say that they "must leave him now", to be followed by the river, the river banks, and the sky all taking their leave from him and disappearing. Subsequently he has several visions of places where he spent his childhood and youth, such as the valley of his childhood and his old school, where he he sees old friends and classmates and the also the heroes of Literature/{{the Iliad}} and [[Literature/{{Anabasis}} the Ten Thousand]] (implied to be his boyhood heroes), all of which tell him "Goodbye". His last vision is of himself standing with a crowd of people at the near end of a "white highway with darkness and stars below it that led into darkness and stars". A lone man is walking down the highway away from the crowd towards the darkness, despite the people calling the man by his name, "and it was a very strange name". The narrator gets angry because the man won't stop or turn back and makes a "great effort" to call the man's name, and "with the effort" opens his eyes to find himself lying on the river bank with a crowd of people resuscitating him, "and the name that the people called was my own name".
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* DyingDream: The narrator of the short story "In the Twilight" capsizes with a boat and bumps his head on a boat's keel. As he desperately tries swimming upwards, he hears the people in the boats above him say that they "must leave him now", to be followed by the river, the river banks, and the sky all taking their leave from him and disappearing. Subsequently he has several visions of places where he spent his childhood and youth, such as the valley of his childhood and his old school, where he he sees old friends and classmates and the also the heroes of Literature/{{the Iliad}} and [[Literature/{{Anabasis}} the Ten Thousand]] (implied to be his boyhood heroes), all of which tell him "Goodbye". His last vision is of himself standing with a crowd of people at the near end of a "white highway with darkness and stars below it that led into darkness and stars". A lone man is walking down the highway away from the crowd towards the darkness, despite the people calling the man by his name, "and it was a very strange name". The narrator gets angry because the man won't stop or turn back react to the people calling him and makes a tries with "great effort" to call the man's name, name--only to wake up and "with the effort" opens his eyes to find himself lying on the river bank with and a crowd of people resuscitating him, "and the name that the people called was my own name".
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* 'The Sword of Welleran'' was greatly admired by Creator/RobertEHoward, creator of Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian, and may be considered one of the starting points of SwordAndSorcery fantasy. It shares this place with 'The Fortress Unvanquishable, save for Sacnoth.'
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* 'The "The Sword of Welleran'' was greatly admired by Creator/RobertEHoward, creator of Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian, and may be considered one of the starting points of SwordAndSorcery fantasy. It shares this place with 'The Fortress Unvanquishable, save for Sacnoth.'
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* DyingDream: The narrator of the short story "In the Twilight" capsizes with a boat and bumps his head on a boat's keel. As he desperately tries swimming upwards, he hears the people in the boats above him say that they "must leave him now", to be followed by the river, the river banks, and the sky all taking their leave from him and disappearing. Subsequently he has several visions of places where he spent his childhood and youth, such as the valley of his childhood and his old school, where he he sees old friends and classmates and the also the heroes of Literature/{{the Iliad}} and [[Literature/{{Anabasis}} the Ten Thousand]] (implied to be his boyhood heroes), all of which tell him "Goodbye". His last vision is of himself standing with a crowd of people at the near end of a "white highway with darkness and stars below it that led into darkness and stars". A lone man is walking down the highway away from the crowd towards the starry darkness, despite the people calling the man by his name--"and it was a very strange name"--and the narrator gets angry because the man won't stop or turn back and makes a "great effort" to call the man's name, and with it opens his eyes to find himself lying on the river bank with a crowd of people resuscitating him, "and the name that the people called was my own name".
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* DyingDream: The narrator of the short story "In the Twilight" capsizes with a boat and bumps his head on a boat's keel. As he desperately tries swimming upwards, he hears the people in the boats above him say that they "must leave him now", to be followed by the river, the river banks, and the sky all taking their leave from him and disappearing. Subsequently he has several visions of places where he spent his childhood and youth, such as the valley of his childhood and his old school, where he he sees old friends and classmates and the also the heroes of Literature/{{the Iliad}} and [[Literature/{{Anabasis}} the Ten Thousand]] (implied to be his boyhood heroes), all of which tell him "Goodbye". His last vision is of himself standing with a crowd of people at the near end of a "white highway with darkness and stars below it that led into darkness and stars". A lone man is walking down the highway away from the crowd towards the starry darkness, despite the people calling the man by his name--"and name, "and it was a very strange name"--and the name". The narrator gets angry because the man won't stop or turn back and makes a "great effort" to call the man's name, and with it "with the effort" opens his eyes to find himself lying on the river bank with a crowd of people resuscitating him, "and the name that the people called was my own name".
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* DyingDream: The narrator of the short story "In the Twilight" capsizes with a boat and bumps his head on a boat's keel. As he desperately tries swimming upwards, he hears the people in the boats above him say that they "must leave him now", to be followed by the river, the river banks, and the sky all taking their leave from him and disappearing. Subsequently he has several visions of places where he spent his childhood and youth, such as the valley of his childhood and his old school, where he he sees old friends and classmates and the also the heroes of Literature/{{the Iliad}} and [[Literature/{{Anabasis}} the Ten Thousand]] (implied to be his boyhood heroes), all of which tell him "Goodbye". His last vision is of himself standing with a crowd of people at the near end of a "white highway with darkness and stars below it that led into darkness and stars". A lone man is walking down the highway away from the crowd towards the starry darkness, despite the people calling the man by his name--"and it was a very strange name"--and the narrator gets angry because the man won't stop or turn back and makes a "great effort" to call the man's name, and with it opens his eyes to find himself lying on the river bank with a crowd of people resuscitating him, "and the name that the people called was my own name".
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* SuddenDownerEnding: "The Hoard of the Gibbelins". Alderic reaches the tower cleverly and retrieves some of the treasure, [[spoiler:but the Gibbelins catch him and summarily hang him]], "and the tale is one of those that have nor a happy ending."
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* SuddenDownerEnding: "The Hoard of the Gibbelins". Alderic reaches the tower cleverly and retrieves some of the treasure, [[spoiler:but the Gibbelins catch him and summarily hang him]], "and the tale is one of those that have nor not a happy ending."
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* SuddenDownerEnding: "The Hoard of the Gibbelins". Alderic reaches the tower cleverly and retrieves some of the treasure, [[spoiler:but the Gibbelins catch him and summarily hang him]], "and the tale is one of those that have nor a happy ending."
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* DontFearTheReaper: The allegorical short story "On the Dry Land" tells how Love, after leading a man through "perilous marshes" for many years, finally makes ready to leave him, now that the man is old and has reached the dry and safe land. The old man however is unconsolable that Love is leaving him so that Love is moved to promise him to send "his little brother Death" to take care of him. And soon, Death comes "tall and beautiful" and with a smile lifts up the man gently and "murmuring with his low deep voice an ancient song, carried him to the morning, to the gods."
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* UnbuiltTrope: ''The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth'' does this with SwordAndSorcery; a lot of it seems to come across as deconstructing aspects of the genre (especially the idea of the SwordOfPlotAdvancement, given the way people react to Sacnoth), but it actually came first. This trope is also present in his work for other fantasy subgenres.
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* UnbuiltTrope: ''The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth'' does this with SwordAndSorcery; a lot of it seems to come across as deconstructing aspects of the genre (especially the idea of the SwordOfPlotAdvancement, given the way people react to Sacnoth), Sacnoth and the way that it's made clear that Sacnoth is essentially resolving the entire adventure on its own), but it actually came first. This trope is also present in his work for other fantasy subgenres.
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* UnbuiltTrope: Dunsany seems to do this with SwordAndSorcery, especially in ''The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth'', and perhaps other fantasy subgenres.
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* UnbuiltTrope: Dunsany seems to do this with SwordAndSorcery, especially in ''The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth'', and perhaps Sacnoth'' does this with SwordAndSorcery; a lot of it seems to come across as deconstructing aspects of the genre (especially the idea of the SwordOfPlotAdvancement, given the way people react to Sacnoth), but it actually came first. This trope is also present in his work for other fantasy subgenres.
