![]() THERE'S A BIT OF SPAGHETTI WESTERN IN ROLAND, TOO. The author mentioned in an interview with fellow scribe Neil Gaiman for The Sunday Times that he would consider writing out the author proxy who appears in the fifth and sixth Dark Tower volumes. STEPHEN KING MAY WRITE HIMSELF OUT OF THE BOOKS.Īlthough he’s famous for making cameos in movies and TV miniseries based on his novels, King had second thoughts after including himself as a character in the series. ![]() The “HPJKR,” of course, stands for “Harry Potter, J.K. The titular wolves use golden homing grenade-like weapons called “sneetches” (a few letters removed from everyone’s favorite Quidditch ball) stamped with a familiar-looking serial number: 465-11-AA HPJKR. In Wolves of the Calla, the author uses the same font for his chapter titles as the ones used in all seven Harry Potter books. King also paid homage to more contemporary fantasy works. THERE'S MORE THAN ONE HARRY POTTER REFERENCE. t made a certain amount of sense, but there was all this stuff that I wasn’t talking about that went on before the book opens, and when the book ends, there’s all this stuff to be resolved, including: What is this all about? What is this tower? Why does this guy need to get there?" 5. The other reason was that it wasn’t done it wasn’t complete. The first volume didn’t have any firm grounding in our world, in reality it was more like a Tolkien fantasy of some other world. One was I didn’t think anybody would want to read it. King explained the publication delay in the 1989 Castle Rock News interview: The Gunslinger came out in a limited hardcover edition in 1982, but the first mass-market edition didn’t drop until 1988. The two main sections of the novel (“Jake: Fear in a Handful of Dust” and “Lud: A Heap of Broken Images”) directly allude to lines from the poem. The series’ third installment, The Waste Lands, nearly duplicates the title of T.S. ELIOT'S WORK ALSO MAKES AN APPEARANCE.īrowning isn’t the only famous poet who influenced King. In an afterward to The Gunslinger, King wrote that, “ The Dark Tower began, I think, because I inherited a ream of paper in the spring semester of my senior year of college … The ream of paper I inherited was bright green, nearly as thick as cardboard, and of an extremely eccentric size-about 7 inches wide by 10 inches long, as I recall.” In need of a project to fill out this strange green paper, King began writing the first book in March 1970. So I started off wondering: What is this tower? What does it mean? And I decided that everybody keeps a Dark Tower in their heart that they want to find.” 2. Nobody knows who wrote it, and nobody knows what the Dark Tower is. ![]() “Browning never says what that tower is, but it’s based on an even older tradition about Childe Roland that’s lost in antiquity. King explained his fascination with the poem in a 1989 interview with the Castle Rock News: The author first read the poem during his sophomore year at the University of Maine, and it stuck with him. The first volume of the Dark Tower series, The Gunslinger, drew inspiration from Robert Browning’s poem “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came” and King even borrowed the name for his heroic gunslinger Roland Deschain. ROBERT BROWNING’S POETRY INSPIRED THE SERIES. ![]() Stephen King’s world-traversing fantasy epic is a fan favorite, but even if you’ve read all eight volumes of The Dark Tower saga and have preordered your tickets to see its big screen adaptation, which opens this weekend, you can probably pick up a few new nuggets and theories about the sweeping work. ![]()
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