In conclusion and as expanded upon in an epilogue, Tolkien asserts that a truly good and representative fairy story is marked by joy: " Far more powerful and poignant is the effect joy in a serious tale of Faerie.

In this story the theft of the envoy to Rome was also mentioned, only the epilogue was a little different: here, the thief was killed by his own servants in the streets of Rome.

The novel is written in the form of a true story, and even begins and ends with a pseudo-historical prologue and epilogue, adding to the overall feeling of mystery.

The studio, wary of such a pessimistic conclusion, insisted on adding a prologue and epilogue to the movie that suggested a more optimistic outcome to the story which is thus told mainly in flashback.

The film employs a prologue and epilogue to frame the narrative story.

Some critics have suggested the prologue and epilogue were intended to demonstrate the care with which Beban, a noted stage actor, had selected a story worthy of his talents.

Johnston's strip began in September 1979, and ended the main story on August 30, 2008, with a postscript epilogue the following day.

In this story of New Zealand and Te Kooti's War during the year beginning November 10, 1868, the narrative coalesces around the development of its protagonist, George Fairweather, who in Shadbolt ’ s historical epilogue is described as “ A composite character ... yet still far from fictional .” Fairweather is a competent but cynical former British officer in his early forties, who leaves the service under a cloud, turns landscape painter and cultivates an air of worldly detachment.

A more direct explanation comes from the epilogue to Henry IV, Part 2, which promises to " continue the story, with Sir John in it ".

* Mr. Murthwaite – a noted adventurer who has traveled frequently in India ; he provides the epilogue to the story.

Born in Salerno or Sorrento, he is best known today for Il Novellino, a collection of 50 " novelle " or short stories, each prefaced by a letter of dedication to a famous person and with an epilogue containing the " moral " of the story.

Edward Scissorhands is a fairy tale book-ended by a prologue and an epilogue featuring Kim Boggs as an old woman telling her granddaughter the story, augmenting the German Expressionism and Gothic fiction archetypes.

*" Tricky Trap by Tap Tap ," an epilogue to the multi-part story " From Hopeless to Helpless ," featuring Riff Raff.

In the second edition of Survival in the Killing Fields, Roger Warner, Ngor's co-author, adds an epilogue telling the story of Ngor's life after winning the Academy Award.

The filmmakers also agreed that the story should end with Brundle's mercy-killing at Veronica's hands, despite the unanswered questions about Veronica's unborn child that would be raised by the deletion of the epilogue.

The most important Arab playwright was Tawfiq al-Hakim whose first play was a re-telling of the Qur ' anic story of the Seven sleepers and the second an epilogue for the Thousand and One Nights.

In 1997, Frank and Smith moved to Image Comics, where they, along with writer John Arcudi, were hired as the new creative team on the popular Wildstorm title Gen¹³, beginning with the epilogue story in issue # 25.

At the end of the play, an epilogue thanks the audience and promises that the story will continue in a forthcoming play " with Sir John in it, and make you merry with fair Katharine of France ; where, for all I know, Falstaff shall die of a sweat ".

As in many novels of Higgins, this story is surrounded by a ' frame story ' with a prologue and epilogue.

As an epilogue to the Chris King / Vicki Grant Dial H series, The New Adventures of Superboy # 50 features a story in which Chris King's watch is stolen from the Space Museum of the Legion of Super-Heroes ' time period by a thief named Nylor Truggs, who flees with the dial to the ambiguous late 1960s / early 1970s era-Smallville of the original ( Earth-One ) Superboy by altering the dial's functions in some unexplained manner, allowing him to travel in time.

According to the movie's epilogue, it is partially based on a true story and subsequent embezzlement case, which resulted in all Nevada casinos being required by law to post the toll-free number for the Nevada Council on Problem Gambling, should any of their clientele need it.

King originally intended to stop using Castle Rock as the setting of his works after the novel Needful Things, although this was followed by an epilogue in the short story " It Grows on You ".

The original story, without the epilogue, was published in the trade paperback Neverwhere ( Ariel: Feb. 1978 ).

The epilogue of the book states that the FBI, upon discovering Jason Voorhees actually exists, have begun making plans to trap him and " send him straight to Hell "; the actual events of the ' sting ' are revealed in Friday the 13th: Church of the Divine Psychopath.

In the series finale of the Emmy Award-winning, critically acclaimed series Arrested Development ( which he executive produced and narrated ), Howard appears as himself in an epilogue at the end of the episode and refers to himself as " a Hollywood icon ".

Demerzel appears again briefly in the epilogue to Forward the Foundation, which says he was one of the many in attendance at Hari Seldon's funeral.

Book 3, The Dragon Reborn, was in fact told almost exclusively from the points-of-view of Mat Cauthon, Perrin Aybara, and Egwene al ' Vere, despite the fact that it is undoubtedly about Rand ( all three parties eventually follow him to Tear and are present when he pulls the sword Callandor from the Stone and proclaims himself the Dragon Reborn ), and the following books have continued in following the adventures of other characters besides Rand, to such a degree at times that in the tenth book, Crossroads of Twilight, Rand only appears in two chapters and the epilogue.

Typical of most Fire Emblem " Lords " in successive games, he is a swordsman with a slim build and wears a cape ; he shows nobility and justness in both of the Fire Emblem games that he appears in, though he also shows himself to be somewhat single-minded in pursuit of Medeus and Gharnef in Shadow Dragon ( the remake of Ankoku Ryū to Hikari no Ken, implying that he has a darker and more ruthless side to his character: he also has difficulty in expressing his feelings for Caeda in that game's epilogue ( if she survived ).

In the epilogue, Westhouse struggles through a Tibetan blizzard in 1933 and rescued by Manny Chavez ( one of the pseudonyms of the Red Dragon, who appears as Cortez in TLJ ).

She later appears in the game's epilogue, discussing Vincent's apparent disappearance.

In an epilogue, a film is shown with the patients torturing Evelyn and Price in what appears to be " the other side ", the assumption that everyone killed in the house relives death for eternity.

Voiced by Jen Taylor, she appears in Halo: Combat Evolved and its sequels, Halo 2, Halo 3 and Halo 4, in the prequel and epilogue of Halo: Reach, as well the novels Halo: The Flood, Halo: The Fall of Reach, Halo: First Strike, and Halo: Ghosts of Onyx.

In the epilogue, she and Ryo are married and have a child who appears to be the reincarnation of the redeemed Black Alice.

The Sophistical Refutations is viewed by some as an appendix to the Topics, inasmuch as its final section appears to form an epilogue to both treatises.

Though he appears little in the game, the epilogue reveals that years after the end of the Lion War, Orran compiles his experiences into a book.

Similarly, the function epilogue appears at the end of the function, and restores the stack and registers to the state they were in before the function was called.

Clarke himself appears in some scenes of the game, like when the player dies, and in the epilogue, gives advice to the player.

While James and John are prominent disciples in the synoptics, John mentions them only in the epilogue, where they are referred to not by name but as the " sons of Zebedee.

There is a brief epilogue sequence in which the fates of the six only known survivors are shown: Sydney underwent surgery on his kneecap injuries and lives as a horticulturist with his son Seymour, Arthur received an OBE for lifelong service to the theatre and retired to the country, Sebastian wrote a book about the film's events and is currently negotiating the film rights.

The Metamorphoses can be said to be unique in that it is the only Latin mock-epic to have an epilogue.

Mefistofele is an opera in a prologue, four acts and an epilogue, the only completed opera by the Italian composer-librettist Arrigo Boito.

It is only in the epilogue that he realizes his formal punishment, having decided to confess and end his alienation from society.

The change of dynasty can be considered as the epilogue of the first act of a long struggle between the Castilian monarchy and the aristocracy ; this struggle was to continue for more than three centuries and come to an end only under Charles I of Spain, the grandson of Ferdinand II of Aragon ( Ferdinand V of Castile ) and Isabella I of Castile ( The Catholic Monarchs ), in the first quarter of the 16th century.

Apart from the epilogue of the Zola trial, only two cases, which received scant notice, looked encouraging.

In the epilogue, the Ignika is seen flying through space, with Mata Nui inside, thinking only one thing: " I will return.

The prologue and epilogue which frame the songs are both performed by the horn alone, and in these movements Britten instructs the player to use only the horn's natural harmonics ; this lends these short movements a distinctive character as some harmonics sound sharp or flat to an audience accustomed to the western chromatic scale.

In the epilogue of Star Trek VI, Uhura had stated they received a communication from Starfleet Command that ordered the Enterprise to report to space dock to be decommissioned, however she may have been speaking only of the ship's original crew members as Captain James T. Kirk previously stated his crew was due to stand down in three months, while Spock noted this would be his last voyage on the Enterprise as a member of her crew ; and Captain Kirk states the ship " will become the care of another crew ," but no further information is given.

Lord of Chaos, Knife of Dreams, New Spring and The Gathering Storm are the only other Wheel of Time books to have an epilogue.

In the epilogue, Youzen was made the Headmaster of the new Sennin World, with Choukei ( Bunchuu's only disciple ) representing the Youkai ( demons ) and Nentou-doujin ( ex-Juunisen, who helped defeat Jyoka ) representing the Humans, supporting him.

Edmund Burke's quote " The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing " serves as the film's epilogue.

A similar device was used by Kurt Vonnegut in the novel Galápagos, however unlike Vonnegut, Houellebecq only reveals the frame to the reader in the epilogue.

Andrei Rublev is divided into seven chapters and a prologue and an epilogue only loosely related to the main film.

The epilogue is the only part of the film in color and shows details of several of Andrei Rublev's icons.

There are many films which do not only include a few glimpses of the character's future, but also are based on an epilogue.

This version did not contain any chapter divisions and contained only about half of the text that appeared in the book publication, totally omitting chapters five, six, seven, fourteen and the epilogue.

Not only did Dart require a long time to publish his work, but also the epilogue contains notices like: “ Professor Dart ’ s thesis that the South African apemen, at the stage they were found, were omnivorous, must be considered as proven.

Because this world was only introduced for a brief two pages before the epilogue of the second volume, knowledge of this world is limited.

In a brief epilogue, a doctor explains to one of the Senator's acquaintances, Mr. Garson, that despite having lived through the plane crash ( discovered at the crash site as the only survivor ), it somehow affected his mind — hence his strange mutterings — and wonders if he'll ever regain his sanity.