Because of this, what happens in Fionavar ripples into other worlds — thus the victory or defeat of Rakoth Maugrim has not just immediate importance for Fionavar but also implications for our own world.

When Kim awakens the next morning, she has not only the power of a seer ( which was born in her ), but also all of Ysanne's deep knowledge of Fionavar to help her interpret what she sees.

Meanwhile, Dave has arrived safely in Fionavar but far out on the plains.

* The Wild Hunt appears frequently in modern fantasy fiction, as in Alan Garner ( in The Moon of Gomrath ), Peter Beagle ( in Tamsin ), Penelope Lively in The Wild Hunt of Hagworthy, Uladzimir Karatkievich ( in The Wild Hunt of King Stakh ), Susan Cooper in The Dark is Rising, Guy Gavriel Kay's trilogy The Fionavar Tapestry, Raymond E. Feist's ' Faerie Tale ', Laurell K. Hamilton's Merry Gentry series, J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings ( as the Dead Men of Dunharrow ), Buffy the Vampire Slayer ( Novel Child of the Hunt ), Andrzej Sapkowski's Geralt of Rivia cicle and Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series, among many others.

The map of Fionavar shows the northwestern part of the continent and its western coasts, bordered by an ocean, like most of the Middle-earth maps drawn by Tolkien, especially of Beleriand.

* Darien Maugrim, fictional character in The Fionavar Tapestry novels by Guy Gavriel Kay

The Fionavar Tapestry is a trilogy of fantasy novels by Guy Gavriel Kay, set partly in our own contemporary world, but mostly in the fictional world of Fionavar.

Drawn by magic from our world and thus strangers to Fionavar, each of them finds a new role and a new destiny during their adventures in Fionavar.

Arthur is brought into Fionavar as The Warrior by Kimberley ; Lancelot is revived in Cader Sedat in the second book, and Guinevere's life and memories awaken within Jennifer ; the three reenact some ( though not all ) of their well-known tale as expiation for their sins.

The Summer Tree ( 1984 ) is the first novel of The Fionavar Tapestry trilogy by Guy Gavriel Kay.

They attend a lecture by a Professor Lorenzo Marcus, who afterwards reveals to them that he is in reality Loren Silvercloak, a mage from the land of Fionavar.

Labor relations have been transformed, income security has become a standardized feature of political platforms, and all the many facets of the American version of the welfare state have become part of the conventional wisdom.

according to many critics, in fact, the South has led the North in literature since the Civil War, both quantitatively and qualitatively.

There are many domains in which understanding has brought about widespread and quite appropriate reduction in ritual and fear.

it has been, many times.

A dear, respected friend of mine, who like myself grew up in the South and has spent many years in New England, said to me not long ago: `` I can't forgive New England for rejecting all complicity ''.

This combined experience, on a foundation of very average, I assure you, intelligence and background, has helped me do things many well-informed people would bet heavily against.

Studying The Merchant Of Venice in high school and college has given many young people their notions about Jews.

That doctrine has been accepted by many, but has it produced good results??

Research, on the other hand, has shown many stepmothers to be eminently successful, some far better than the real mothers.

The late R. G. Collingwood, a philosopher whose work has proved helpful to many students of literature, once wrote ``::

Considering then the optimism which has permeated science fiction for so long, what is really remarkable is that during the last twelve years many science-fiction writers have turned about and attacked their own cherished vision of the future, have attacked the Childhood's End kind of faith that science and technology will inevitably better the human condition.

History has demonstrated many times that concerts of nations based solely on the negative spur of common danger are unlikely to survive when the external danger ceases to be dramatically urgent.

He has, like so many other secular and religious culture symbols, gone over to the side of the ruling classes.

Reports that the venerable liner, which has been in service since 1936, was to be retired struck a nostalgic note in many of us.

The same can be said of shaving yet the electric razor has proved useful to many men.

Civil Defense has far to go and many problems to solve, but is it not in the best spirit of our pioneer tradition to be not only willing, but prepared to care for our own families and help our neighbors in any disaster -- storm, flood, accident or even war??

President Kennedy has urged a peace race on disarmament that might be called `` Operation Survival '' which has many facets.

In the last few years the telephone company has managed to automate many areas of their service.

N.C. has said something important so well that this preacher will many times be tempted to quote the whole piece.

My memory has catalogued for easy reference and withdrawal the image of her pink, scented stationery and the unsloped, almost printed configurations of her neat, studious handwriting with which she invited me to recall our summer, so many sentences beginning with `` Remember when ; ;

The idea of a Peace Corps has captured the imagination of a great many people.

With the existence of these many factors, some of them variable, it obviously has never been and is not now possible for the Commission to make assignments of AM stations on a case-to-case basis which will insure against any interference in any circumstances.

Because of the difference between daytime and nighttime propagation conditions, it has been necessary to evolve different allocation structures for daytime and nighttime broadcasting in the AM band, with many more stations operating during the day than at night.

Programmed cell death in plants has a number of molecular similarities to animal apoptosis, but it also has differences, notably the presence of a cell wall and the lack of an immune system which removes the pieces of the dead cell.

This view has certain similarities to the concepts of Christogenesis advocated by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.

He sought to adapt it on numerous occasions, though the project would carry a substantial price tag, and has yet to appear onscreen ( Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Philip K. Dick's Minority Report bears striking similarities to De Palma's visual style and some of the themes of The Demolished Man ).

This final chapter is a poetic praise of God, and has some similarities with texts found in the Book of Daniel.

Recently, it has been possible to construct these trees using molecular data, based on similarities and differences between genetic and protein sequences.

The subjective view, that the wave function is merely a mathematical tool for calculating the probabilities in a specific experiment, has some similarities to the Ensemble interpretation in that it takes probabilities to be the essence of the quantum state, but unlike the ensemble interpretation, it takes these probabilities to be perfectly applicable to single experimental outcomes, as it interprets

The notation ∇ × F has its origins in the similarities to the 3 dimensional cross product, and it is useful as a mnemonic in Cartesian coordinates if we take ∇ as a vector differential operator del.

The Canadian Great Lakes region has similarities to that of the Upper Midwest & Great Lakes region and / or Yooper dialect ( in particular Michigan which has extensive cultural and economic ties with Ontario ), while the phonological system of western Canadian English is virtually identical to that of the Pacific Northwest of the United States, and the phonetics are similar.

Today, the crossbow often has a complicated legal status due to the possibility of lethal use and its similarities to both firearms and archery weapons.

The fictional Elbonia has some visual and thematic similarities to the fictional country of Lower Slobbovia in Al Capp's long-running strip Li ' l Abner, where the impoverished citizens, who suffered under corrupt government, were perpetually seen in waist-deep snow.

The religion has been likened to Zen, based on similarities with absurdist interpretations of the Rinzai school, as well as Taoist philosophy.

A common origin for the Herpesviruses and the Caudoviruses has been suggested on the basis of parallels in their capsid assembly pathways and similarities between their portal complexes, through which DNA enters the capsid.

The double bass is closest in construction to violins, but has some notable similarities to the violone ( literally " large viol "), the largest and lowest member of the viola da gamba family.

Similarly, the Covenant Code ( the law code in Exodus 20: 22-23: 33 ) has notable similarities in both content and structure with the Laws of Hammurabi.

* Maritimes, Acadian or Downeast style of fiddling which has many similarities to Cape Breton fiddling

Matthew Perry has expressed his similarities to the character such as his need to break an awkward silence with a joke and difficulties with women when first joining the show.

Scholes quotes a keyboard piece by John Bull ( 1619 ) which has some similarities to the modern tune, depending on the placing of accidentals which at that time were unwritten in certain cases and left to the discretion of the player ( see musica ficta ).

" It has been suggested that similarities between John's Gospel and Gnosticism may spring from common roots in Jewish Apocalyptic literature.

His twin, Stewart Lord also played with the club and has been credited as the main reason his brother won the award given their similarities in appearance, both played significant roles in the club's premiership win.

It has been argued the similarities between the Gaulish and Latin languages favoured the transition.

The movie has many similarities with Casablanca – the same enemies, the same kind of hero, even a piano player sidekick ( this time Hoagy Carmichael ).

In the hybrid of post-structuralism and anarchism called post-anarchism the British Saul Newman has written a lot on Stirner and his similarities to post-structuralism.

Paul Oliver has drawn attention to similarities in instruments, music and social function to the griots of Africa's western Sudanic belt.