Grüße Roland,
„Der dunkle Turm“ und „Glas“ gehören doch einer Trilogie an,
nicht wahr?
Ich kenne dieser Bücher nicht und weiß daher nichts über deren
Handlung.
Dieser „R.F.“ aus „Dark Tower“ müßte ja eigentlich vor der
Handlung aus „The Stand/ Das letzte Gefecht“ dort auftauchen,
sollte es in derselben Welt spielen.
Aber die Initialen „R.F.“ waren, so ich mich nicht vertue in
„The Stand“ auch die Platzhalter eines weiteren Namens/ einer
weiteren Bezeichnung?
Wenn du oder sonst Jemand sich daran entsinnen kann und mir
diesen mitteilt wäre ich sehr dankbar.
Vorhang
Gerrit
Hallo Gerrit!
Der Dunkle Turm ist eine noch nicht abgeschlossene Reihe von Büchern, zu der bisher 4 Bände (Schwarz, Drei, Tot und Glas) gehören. Außerdem sind einige Bücher mehr oder weniger mit der Handlung des Dunklen Turms verwoben. So ist zum Beispiel das Ende von Schlaflos meiner Meinung nach enorm unbefriedigend, wenn man Die Dark-Tower-Bücher nicht kennt während es für Kenner neue Erkenntnisse bringt. Im Dunklen Turm vershmelzen viele von King´s Welten, so dass die zeitliche Einordnung nicht ganz einfach ist. Allerdings müssten die Ereignisse des Dark Tower auf jeden Fall nach The Stand spielen. King schreibt oft, dass diese Welt sich „weitergedreht“ hat und es gibt Hinweise, dass es unsere Welt in der Zukunft ist.
Zu R.F. kann ich Dir nur folgendes von einer Dark-Tower-Fanpage (alsostark auf diese Bücher bezogen) schreiben:
3. „Who is Richard Fannin?“
Richard Fannin, also known as Merlin, Maerlin, the Magician, the Wizard, The Ageless Stranger, and Randall Flagg, appears as the villain in several King
stories. In the trade paperback version of book two Roland makes mention that he witnessed the events of „Eyes of the Dragon“ on pages 361-362 (or if you don’t
have the trade paperback edition it is in the section called „The Pusher“, chapter 3, section 13.) In the trade version of book three Fannin himself admits that he was
the villain in „The Stand“ on pages 387-390 (again, if you don’t have the trade edition try „Bridge and City“, section 40.)
We discover in book 4 that R.F. is also Marten Broadcloak, the wizard advisor to Roland’s father, seducer of his mother and a man who aided in the complete
and utter destruction of the Gunslinger way of life.
While re-reading the series to find out all the page numbers for the chronology I also came across the stunning revelation (on page 106 of the first book no less)
that Marten is, in fact, „known in some quarters as the good man.“ This means that Farson, The Good Man, Flagg, Fannin and Marten are all one and the same
person.
While we are on the topic, several nice folks have also e-mailed in wondering about what Walter meant at the end of the first book after he sent the vision to
Roland. To hear Walter tell it that vision would have destroyed Marten, which, if he is Flagg, would be darned difficult to do. In that same section Walter also says
that he works for „The Ageless Stranger“ (i.e. Flagg) but has never met him outside of a dream (page 211). This leads me to believe that as powerful as Walter is, he
doesn’t have the slightest clue who Marten really was.
On a side note, J.A. Lawson writes in from England with the tidbit that in „The Stand“, Tom Cullen refers to Flagg as being the demon „Legion“ (I’ll be running
down the page reference tonight.) You probably recognize this from the Bible story where Jesus casts the demon out into a herd of pigs who then flee lemming-like
off a cliff, but Legion also appeared as the villain in the King made for T.V. movie „Storm of the Century“ under the name „Mr. Linoge“. Linoge told his victims that if
they simply gave him what he wanted he would go away. What did he want? A child to raise as his own to one-day replace him.
Lori, sharp reader that she is, ran the page reference for me (thanks Lori!) If you have the uncut version of „The Stand“ in hardcover it’s on page 818, for the
uncut Signet paperback look to page 806. „He’s always outside. He came out of time. He doesn’t know himself. He has the name of a thousand demons.
Jesus knocked him into a herd of pigs once. His name is Legion. He’s afraid of us. We’re inside. He knows magic. He can call the wolves and live in the
crows. He’s the king of nowhere…“
Gruß,
Roland