YMMV / Three Hearts and Three Lions

• Adaptation Displacement: Today the book is mostly remembered for being the inspiration for The Paladin in Dungeons & Dragons.
• Literary Agent Hypothesis: The author of the story is repeating something told to him by an old friend who suddenly resurfaced after disappearing during World War II.
• Tear Jerker:
  • Hugi's death from fighting the troll.
  • Holger's inability to ever find his way back to Alianora. Indeed, Word of God was that "I don't think he ever found her again, though I hope he did."

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