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Incidentally, Creator/GKChesterton, Creator/JRRTolkien and Creator/CSLewis all admired the book. Tolkien drew on [=MacDonald=]'s goblins when inventing [[Literature/TheHobbit his own goblins]], and Lewis referenced the ''Curdie'' books in ''Literature/ThatHideousStrength''.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Surprisingly, for the goblin king and his first wife, despite the opinion of the goblins that he's better off with one of his own kind.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Surprisingly, for the goblin king and his first wife, despite the opinion of the goblins that he's better off with one of his own kind. The narrator notes that goblins have enough affection for each other not to be cruel for cruelness sake.
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* KryptoniteProofSuit: The goblin queen wears stone shoes to protect her sensitive feet. It's never quite explained why other goblins do not do the same.
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* KryptoniteProofSuit: The goblin queen wears stone shoes to protect her sensitive feet. It's never quite explained why other goblins do not do the same.same aside from some vague idea of them not being fashionable. One goblin complains about this and gets his foot stomped for his pains.
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* RiddleForTheAges: Whatever caused the goblin's ancestors to start living underground. Several competing theories are brought up but the precise reason is never given.
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* KryptoniteProofSuit: The goblin queen wears stone shoes to protect her sensitive feet. It's never quite explained why other goblins do not do the same.
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* PrincessClassic: Irene is an innocent young girl who is unfailingly polite, truthful and kind to everybody she meets. This ideal is apparently the standard for a ''true'' prince or princess.
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* PrincessClassic: Irene is an innocent young girl who is unfailingly polite, truthful truthful, humble and kind to everybody she meets. This ideal is apparently the standard for a ''true'' prince or princess.
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* PrincessClassic: Irene is an innocent young girl who is unfailingly polite, truthful and kind to everybody she meets.
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* PrincessClassic: Irene is an innocent young girl who is unfailingly polite, truthful and kind to everybody she meets. This ideal is apparently the standard for a ''true'' prince or princess.
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* PrincessClassic: Irene is an innocent young girl who is unfailingly polite, truthful and kind to everybody she meets.
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* LineageLadder: Princess Irene meets her great-great-grandmother, for whom she was named, but isn't quite sure what all the 'greats' mean. The elder Irene explains that "I'm your father's mother's father's mother" as a way to help her understand.
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* LineageLadder: Princess Irene meets her great-great-grandmother, for whom she was named, but isn't quite sure what all the 'greats' mean. The elder Irene explains that "I'm your father's mother's father's mother" as a way to help her understand.understand, a good demonstration of how a person understands ancestral patterns by mentally climbing a "ladder" on the family tree.
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* LineageLadder: Princess Irene meets her great-great-grandmother, for whom she was named, but isn't quite sure what all the 'greats' mean. The elder Irene explains that "I'm your father's mother's father's mother" as a way to help her understand.
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* MasterOfThreads: Irene's grandmother creates a magical thread to guide her.
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* AllJustADream: When Lootie doesn't believe her story, Irene wonders if she dreamed her first meeting with her great grandmother. Her grandmother implies it is this doubt which kept Irene from finding her so easily for a second time. Curdie also dreams (he thinks) about Irene's grandmother healing him, which is implied to have actually happened.
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* JustADream: When Lootie doesn't believe her story, Irene wonders if she dreamed her first meeting with her great grandmother. Her grandmother implies it is this doubt which kept Irene from finding her so easily for a second time. Curdie also dreams (he thinks) about Irene's grandmother healing him, which is implied to have actually happened.
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* HonoraryPrincess: In spirit the narrator likens Curdie to a prince in that he feels bad for accusing Irene of playing a trick on him, and says that a true prince or princess will always recognise when they have done wrong by somebody and seek to make it right again.
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* WasItAllADream?: When Lootie doesn't believe her story, Irene wonders if she dreamed her first meeting with her great grandmother. Her grandmother implies it is this doubt which kept Irene from finding her so easily for a second time. Curdie also dreams (he thinks) about Irene's grandmother healing him, which is implied to have actually happened.
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* WasItAllADream?: JustADream: When Lootie doesn't believe her story, Irene wonders if she dreamed her first meeting with her great grandmother. Her grandmother implies it is this doubt which kept Irene from finding her so easily for a second time. Curdie also dreams (he thinks) about Irene's grandmother healing him, which is implied to have actually happened.
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* WiseBeyondTheirYears: The narrator describes Irene as a 'true princess' and acting like it by learning from her actions, behaving humbly and kindly to people and honouring her debts. Even when very frightened, she tries to act sensibly. One example is when she first makes her way up the stairs to her grandmother's and loses her way, becomes frightened and starts to cry, but then calms down and tries to work to find her way back by retracing her steps and looking for a staircase to go back down.
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* WiseBeyondTheirYears: The narrator describes Irene as a 'true princess' and acting like it by learning from her actions, behaving humbly and kindly to people and honouring her debts. Even when very frightened, she tries to act sensibly. One example is when she first makes Many times the eight-year-old princess comes across as wiser than her way up the stairs to her grandmother's and loses her way, becomes frightened and starts to cry, but then calms down and tries to work to find her way back by retracing her steps and looking for a staircase to go back down.grown nurse, Lootie.
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* WasItAllADream: WasItAllADream?: When Lootie doesn't believe her story, Irene wonders if she dreamed her first meeting with her great grandmother. Her grandmother implies it is this doubt which kept Irene from finding her so easily for a second time. Curdie also dreams (he thinks) about Irene's grandmother healing him, which is implied to have actually happened.
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* WasItAllADream: Irene wonders this about her first meeting with her great grandmother and then during her second visit to her tower. Her grandmother implies it is this doubt which kept Irene from finding her as quickly.
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* WasItAllADream: When Lootie doesn't believe her story, Irene wonders this about if she dreamed her first meeting with her great grandmother and then during her second visit to her tower. grandmother. Her grandmother implies it is this doubt which kept Irene from finding her as quickly.so easily for a second time.
