History Trivia / TheEyeOfArgon

* OldShame: Theis complained that the damage the story was doing to his reputation was unfair considering he wrote it thirty years earlier at age sixteen. However, he was supposedly a good enough sport about it that he'd read it out at conventions.

** A recurring book from ''VideoGame/TheElderScrolls'' series mentions the "Eye of Argonia" as a MacGuffin.

* ReferencedBy: In ''VideoGame/UltimaVIII'', The Avatar can stumble upon the ''Ear of Arricorn'', Volumes III, IV and VI. A copy can also be found in ''VideoGame/DeusEx'' while you’re in Paris.

* AccidentallyCorrectWriting / AluminumChristmasTrees: There is in fact such a thing as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_beryl scarlet emerald]]. It's not known if the author knew this, however.

* NamesTheSame: A deity named "Sargon" is mentioned. Whether they actually exist in-universe or not, they probably have nothing to do with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sargon_of_Akkad the Akkadian ruler]].

* AccidentallyCorrectWriting: There is in fact such a thing as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_beryl scarlet emerald]]. It's not known if the author knew this, however.

* OldShame: Unusual in that Jim Theis didn't write anything else, but did complain that the damage the story was doing to his reputation was unfair considering he wrote it thirty years earlier at age sixteen. However, he was a good enough sport about it that he'd read it out at conventions.
* OneBookAuthor: Jim Theis died March 26, 2002, apparently of heart trouble. He was only 48.

* ReferencedBy: In ''VideoGame/UltimaVIII'', The Avatar can stumble upon the ''Ear of Arricorn'', Volumes III, IV and VI. A copy can also be found in ''VideoGame/DeusEx''.

* ReferencedBy: In ''VideoGame/UltimaVIII'', The Avatar can stumble upon the ''Ear of Arricorn'', Volumes III, IV and VI.

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* "[[http://fanzines.lmc.gatech.edu/exhibits/show/reh-lone-star-fictioneer/fz1/my-sword-is-quick My Sword Is Quick]]", attributed to M.M. Moamrath, and possibly written by Bill Wallace and Joe Pulmilia, ran in the Spring 1976 issue of ''The Lone Star Fictioneer'', a Creator/RobertEHoward fanzine, edited by Byron Roark. It's a Conan satire that reads in places very much like "The Eye of Argon", including the author's being psychologically unable to write "blood" and substituting a whole galaxy of metaphors.

* AccidentallyAccurate: There is in fact such a thing as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_beryl scarlet emerald]]. It's not known if the author knew this, however.

* CreatorKiller

* OldShame: Unusual in that Jim Theis didn't write anything else, but did complain, at one point, that the damage the story was doing to his reputation was unfair considering he wrote it thirty years earlier at age sixteen. However, he was a good enough sport about it that he'd read it out at conventions.

* OldShame: Unusual in that Jim Theis didn't write anything else, but did complain, at one point, that the damage the story was doing to his reputation was unfair considering he wrote it thirty years earlier at age sixteen.
* OneBookAuthor

* AccidentallyAccurate - There is in fact such a thing as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_beryl scarlet emerald]]. It's not known if the author knew this, however.

* OldShame - Unusual in that Jim Theis didn't write anything else, but did complain, at one point, that the damage the story was doing to his reputation was unfair considering he wrote it thirty years earlier at age sixteen.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen - In an interview he granted after the story achieved notoriety, Theis said that he was planning a massive rewrite, noting that - following the story's publication - he had been given constructive criticism from friends and had learned a lot about writing on his own. This new version never came. In the 80s, Theis granted another interview where he explained how the mockery and humiliation eventually got to the point where he decided to give up on the rewrite and on being an author entirely.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen - In an interview he granted after the story achieved notoriety, Theis said that he was planning a massive rewrite, noting that - following the story's publication - he had been given constructive criticism from friends and had learned a lot about writing on his own. This new version never came. In the 80s, an interviewer managed to track Theis down and learned that the mockery and humiliation eventually got to the point where Theis decided to give up on the rewrite and on being an author entirely.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen - In an interview he granted after the story achieved notoriety, Theis said that he was planning a massive rewrite, noting that - following the story's publication - he had been given constructive criticism from friends and had learned a lot about writing on his own. However, in a later interview done in the 80s, he claimed that the mockery and humiliation eventually got to the point where he decided to give up on the rewrite and on being an author entirely.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen - In an interview he granted after the story achieved notoriety, Theis said that he was planning a massive rewrite, noting that - following the story's publication - he had been given constructive criticism from friends and had learned a lot about writing on his own. However, in a later interview done in the 80s, he claimed that the mockery and humiliation go to the point where he decided to give up on the rewrite and on being an author entirely.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen - In an interview he granted after the story achieved notoriety, Theis said that he was planning a massive rewrite, noting that - following the story's publication - he had been given constructive criticism from friends and had learned a lot about writing on his own. However, in a later interview he claimed that the mockery had hurt his feelings to point that he gave up on the rewrite and on being an author entirely.

* OneBookAuthor