Talk:The Worm Ouroboros

message: Must so much of the article deal with the comparison to The Lord of the Rings?  I was going to go to the article on Eddison himself and change the first sentence to, "E.R. Eddison was not J.R.R. Tolkien."  That seems to be what he is most famous for.  (I did stop myself just in time.)Steve Dufour 04:14, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, I moved all that to its own section. It really doesn't belong in the introduction. rewinn 21:45, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Comparison with LOTR

message: I cut out:
:"It should be pointed out that the recurrence is not exact; the situation is not exactly that of the opening, the restored king of Witchland is now Gorice XII, and minor Demons and their allies killed in the war are not revived; but we are in no doubt that a sequel, had it been written, would have continued Eddison's vision in the same style."
It's really just someone's opinion. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 168.137.100.21 (talk) 00:28, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: sentence cut out

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message: Do you think it might be a good idea to mention how the characters in the book can be related to figures in US politics?  For instance Gorice XI and XII to Bush 41 and 43? Or Brandoch Daha to Barack Obama? Maybe Juss to Al Gore? Corund and Prezmyra to Bill and Hillary? And Gro to George Stephanopoulos? ;-) Steve Dufour (talk) 04:00, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: If so we might see a real "October Surprise". :-) Steve Dufour (talk) 15:58, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, that's just stupid. Gorice XII is a lot smarter than Bush 43 and Gorice 41. Also Bush 43 isn't seven feet tall with a habit of wearing black cobra-skins over black chain mail. Although that would have been interesting.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 116.125.84.188 (talk) 12:29, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

text: It's been some years since I last picked up the book, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't Corund who wrastled Gorice XI to death. —Tamfang (talk) 19:45, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

text: One could also relate Witchland, the great empire that dominates most of the world = United States; Demonland, the fierce, proud, mountainous country the stands up to Witchland = Iran; Goblinland, Demonland's friend and neighbor = Afghanistan; then the Goules must be the USSR; Pixieland = Saudia Arabia; and the Folliet Islands = the United Arab Emirates  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.183.241.153 (talk) 07:55, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: That's kind of scary! Steve Dufour (talk) 18:00, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Comparison to US politics

message: I've had a couple of peculiar editing problems, e.g. . Switching from Chrome back to firefox seems to have worked but I don't know if Chrome really was the problem. rewinn (talk) 06:07, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Did you have Chrome set to use another encoding, like maybe UTF-16 for some reason? --Thnidu (talk) 19:12, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Editing problems: browser?

message: I am proposing merging the character articles here as a list. The articles themselves do not seem to possess any particular notability for the characters (it's not inherited from the main article) and consist solely of descriptions of the plot, which sometime overlap. There is nothing to give an "out of universe" view for any of these characters and a quick google search didn't seem to bring anything to light either. Alastairward (talk) 19:09, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: That is certainly an acceptable way to preserve the information if separate articles are considered overkill. But if that is the precedent, I fear it would precipitate the merger of many, many more articles under the :Category:Characters in written fantasy. Probably the majority of these do not have "out of universe" notability, and only a few, such as Tarzan and Gandalf would survive. Or perhaps those with incarnations in multiple media should be preserved, while those appearing only in the original written work should be merged. Goustien (talk) 06:37, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: That would be an idea, the overlap between multiple media (if noted in secondary sources) would help with an understanding of the characters themselves. The characters concerned in this merge proposal could be rounded up and kept to a single list, with a brief description of each, as they concern one book only. It would help to have a secondary source to add some sort of analysis, rather than just quote the book itself heavily. Alastairward (talk) 10:45, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge proposal 

message: : ... the gods worshipped have the names of deities from Greek mythology.
Is there any concrete sign of worship rather than of use of their names for expletives and allusions? —Tamfang (talk) 09:31, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Sophonisba prays to them in chapter 28. Schwerdf (talk) 15:15, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

text: There's a shrine of Zeus in the Mezentian trilogy, I believe... AnonMoos (talk) 16:47, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
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:Could just be to Ouroboros in general... AnonMoos (talk) 04:09, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
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And after the Moruna, a region in … er, which country? Impland? —Tamfang (talk) 23:10, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Surprisingly enough, yes.  You can search for it in the ebook. Dan Bloch (talk) 23:40, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: But it looks like it's been grouped in with another genus since then.  Morunasaurus groi is now Enyalioides groi. Dan Bloch (talk) 23:45, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''Morunasaurus''