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3 | Peter Soyer Beagle (born April 20, 1939) is an American fantasy writer chiefly known for his book ''Literature/TheLastUnicorn'' and screenplay of Creator/RalphBakshi's ill-fated ''WesternAnimation/TheLordOfTheRings''. |
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5 | Other works include ''A Fine and Private Place'', a fantasy romance set in a graveyard, and the short story "Professor Gottesman and the Indian Rhinoceros". Also, the non-fantasy but excellent ''I See By My Outfit'', a pseudo-autobiographical road novel. |
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7 | Is a self-admitted huge fan of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. |
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9 | !!!Novels by Peter S. Beagle with their own trope pages include: |
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11 | * ''Literature/AFineAndPrivatePlace'' |
12 | * ''Literature/TheLastUnicorn'' |
13 | * ''Literature/{{Tamsin}}'' |
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15 | !!!Films with screenplays by Peter S. Beagle with their own trope pages include: |
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17 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Camelot}}'' |
18 | * ''WesternAnimation/ATaleOfEgypt'' |
19 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheLastUnicorn'' |
20 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheLordOfTheRings'' |
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23 | !!Other works by Peter S. Beagle include examples of: |
24 | * AmnesiacLover: Lukassa in ''The Innkeeper's Song'', because of her recent death and subsequent revival, can't remember anything of her life or her lover Tikat. |
25 | * AuthorAvatar: Joe Farrell, who appears in "Julie's Unicorn", "Lila the Werewolf", ''The Folk of the Air'', and "Spook", has been described by Beagle as his "literary stand-in". |
26 | * DyingAsYourself: In "Two Hearts", the prince dies as a hero, killing a griffin, after his friends rouse him out of a prolonged period of mental and physical decay. |
27 | * TheFairFolk |
28 | * FateWorseThanDeath |
29 | * GhostAmnesia: |
30 | ** Lukassa in ''The Innkeeper's Song'' is brought back from the dead physically, but can't remember anything, not even her lover, Tikat. |
31 | ** The short story "Spook". |
32 | * GodsNeedPrayerBadly: ''The Folk of the Air'' features a former earth-mother goddess from the neolithic era now working as a therapist in Berkeley. |
33 | * InterestingSituationDuel: In "Spook", Joe Farrell has to duel a ghost. Since the usual candidates wouldn't work on an insubstantial opponent, the choice of weapons is "bad poetry". |
34 | * MenstrualMenace: "Lila the Werewolf" purposely plays with the similarities between menstruation and lycanthropy. |
35 | -->''"First day, cramps. Second day, this. My introduction to womanhood."'' |
36 | * NoodleIncident: In "Spook", the story of how Joe Farrell learned the poem "A Tragedy" by Theophilus Marziels. Before he recites it, he says, "Remind me to tell you how I learned it -- there was a Kiowa Indian involved." |
37 | * OddFriendship: In "Professor Gottesman and the Indian Rhinoceros", a professor is friends with what he insists is a talking Indian Rhinoceros. It says it's a unicorn. Despite this difference of opinion and other differences, it's a quite close friendship. |
38 | * OurMermaidsAreDifferent: In "Salt Wine", a merman rewards a sailor who rescued him by giving him the recipe for salt wine. It makes him rich, but then it turns out that [[spoiler:a small number of those who drink it become transformed into mer-creatures themselves]]. Here, mermaids are portrayed as wild and inhuman, and they range from supernaturally hideous to supernaturally beautiful. |
39 | * ShapeshiftingLover: In "The Tale of Junko and Sayuri", a hunter wounds an otter and takes it home with him to nurse it back to health. Once the otter is healed, it transforms into a woman and becomes his wife, who uses her power to help him move up in life, all the time not knowing what exactly she is. [[spoiler:It turns out she's an ''[[{{Youkai}} ushi-oni]]''.]] |
40 | * StealthSequel: ''The Innkeeper's Song'' includes an elderly wizard that in many ways seems to be an extremely old version of Schmendrick from ''Literature/TheLastUnicorn''. This is never explicitly confirmed or denied, and when asked in person Beagle responds with a smile: "[[ShrugOfGod I don't know]]; what do ''you'' think?" |
41 | * SwitchingPOV: Each chapter in ''The Innkeeper's Song'' is told from a different character's perspective. |
42 | * SwordCane: Lal carries one in ''The Innkeeper's Song''. |
43 | * TalkingAnimal: According to the professor at least; the rhinoceros maintains it's a unicorn. |
44 | * {{Unicorn}}: In "Professor Gottesman and the Indian Rhinoceros", the talking rhinoceros maintains it is a unicorn. The professor, of course, says it's merely a talking rhinoceros. This is based on how, historically, many exotic animals from Africa were likely mistaken for unicorns. |
45 | * YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe: In ''The Folk of the Air'', the Olde Englishe spoken by members of a society based on the UsefulNotes/SocietyForCreativeAnachronism is derided as "Castle Talk". One character remarks, "It's got no ''rules''!" |
46 | ** "Kings may override grammar!" |
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