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Walls-Thumma suggests that these barriers, and the resulting fragmentation of fans into groups that functioned as communities, has helped to create fan fiction writers "who are not only well read but also insightful and critical of Tolkien's texts." [24] Web access has enabled extensive public dialogue between fan fiction creators and other ...
Robert Nye: Merlin, which gives a paganistic view of Merlin's intrigues to make Arthur king. Tim Powers: The Drawing of the Dark depicts an eternal King Arthur reincarnated to participate in the Siege of Vienna. John Cowper Powys: Porius (A Romance of the Dark Ages) (1951). Howard Pyle: King Arthur and His Knights of The Round Table (1903)
Grunhilda's true nature was uncovered by Merlin and Gaius, Merlin subsequently destroying Grunhilda in a duel—although she was able to take an exceptional amount of damage from Merlin's staff, (the staff he had kept from "The Gates of Avalon",) before dying—while Gaius prepared a potion to expel the Sidhe from Elena. Grunhilda developed a ...
Merlin also figures prominently in Barron's Merlin Effect, which may be in the same fictional continuity. The Young Merlin Trilogy by Jane Yolen (first published between 1996 and 1997), featuring the novels Passager, Hobby, and Merlin, re-imagines the story of Merlin in his boyhood. Abandoned by his parents and left to live in the woods at the ...
Eventually, Nimue becomes power hungry after drinking the water from the Holy Grail and Merlin is forced to tender her to a dagger, making her the first Dark One. Some time later, Nimue gets even with Merlin and turns him into a tree. Trapped in the tree, Merlin prophecies the future of Camelot, where Arthur would become the King of the realm.
Secluded male environment: [2] Pembroke College's Old Quad, where Tolkien had his teaching rooms The author of the bestselling fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings, [3] J. R. R. Tolkien, was orphaned as a boy, his father dying in South Africa and his mother in England a few years later.
The term is generally applied only to fanworks based on Western fandoms; the nearest anime/manga equivalents are more often called yuri and shōjo-ai fanfiction. [4] "Saffic" is a portmanteau of Sapphic from the term Sapphic love and fiction. [5] "Altfic" as a term for fanfiction about loving relationships between women was popularized by Xena ...
Although there are a variety of gynoids across genres, this list excludes female cyborgs (e.g. Seven of Nine in Star Trek: Voyager), non-humanoid robots (e.g. EVE from Wall-E), virtual female characters (Dot Matrix and women from the cartoon ReBoot, Simone from Simone, Samantha from Her), holograms (Hatsune Miku in concert, Cortana from Halo ...