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Belin · 03-09-2002, 11:35 AM

Although Peter S. Beagle has claimed that "It never occurred to me to ape Tolkien" (which makes me wonder whether the earlier claim in this thread about how all fantasy can be traced back to Tolkien is true), there is a moment in The Last Unicorn where Schmendrick tells Jack Jingly
I am Schmendrick the Magician, and I make a bad enemy. I am older than I look, and less amiable. ...and doesn't Gandalf say at one point that he's older than he looks?
....poor Shmendrick...

03-09-2002, 11:35 AM	#24
Belin Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: all the wide unfriendly pathways of the world Posts: 330	Although Peter S. Beagle has claimed that "It never occurred to me to ape Tolkien" (which makes me wonder whether the earlier claim in this thread about how all fantasy can be traced back to Tolkien is true), there is a moment in The Last Unicorn where Schmendrick tells Jack Jingly I am Schmendrick the Magician, and I make a bad enemy. I am older than I look, and less amiable. ...and doesn't Gandalf say at one point that he's older than he looks? ....poor Shmendrick... __________________ "I hate dignity," cried Scraps, kicking a pebble high in the air and then trying to catch it as it fell. "Half the fools and all the wise folks are dignified, and I'm neither the one nor the other." --L. Frank Baum