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* SimilarlyNamedWorks: ''The Dark Tower'' is also the name of an unrelated Music/NoxArcana album.

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* SimilarlyNamedWorks: ''The Dark Tower'' is also the name of an unrelated Music/NoxArcana album.album, and an unfinished Creator/CSLewis novel following up ''Literature/TheSpaceTrilogy.''
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* IJustWriteTheThing: King himself acknowledges that he doesn't like the [[spoiler: ResetButton ending]] but that it was the only way he saw to finish the saga.
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* TheWikiRule: [[http://darktower.wikia.com/wiki/Can_Calyx The Dark Tower Wiki]].

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* SimilarlyNamedWorks: ''The Dark Tower'' is also the name of an unrelated Music/NoxArcana album.
* TheWikiRule: [[http://darktower.wikia.com/wiki/Can_Calyx The Dark Tower Wiki]].



* TheWikiRule: [[http://darktower.wikia.com/wiki/Can_Calyx The Dark Tower Wiki]].
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* TheWikiRule: [[http://darktower.wikia.com/wiki/Can_Calyx The Dark Tower Wiki]].

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* AbilityOverAppearance: Creator/IdrisElba being cast as Roland in the film/TV adaptation. Since there is never any indication that Gilead has problems with racism, this probably won't affect the story, but Roland is also described in the books as looking like a young Creator/ClintEastwood. Creator/StephenKing has [[ApprovalOfGod given Elba his blessing in the role.]]
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* The word "slughorn" used in the original poem "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" is actually a medieval word for "slogan," meaning "battlecry." Browning used it to mean an actual horn after reading the 18th century poetry of Thomas Chatterton, who seemed to believe that the word indicates a musical instrument. This is a little ironic given the end of the Dark Tower series, in which Roland cries out his arrival, but discovers that he needed to have a horn.

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* The word "slughorn" used in the original poem "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" is actually a medieval word for "slogan," meaning "battlecry." Browning used it to mean an actual horn after reading the 18th century poetry of Thomas Chatterton, who seemed to believe that the word indicates a musical instrument. This is a little ironic given the end of the Dark Tower series, in which Roland cries out his arrival, but discovers that he needed to have a horn.horn.
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* The word "slughorn" used in the original poem "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" is actually a medieval word for "slogan," meaning "battlecry." Browning used it to mean an actual horn after reading the 18th century poetry of Thomas Chatterton, who seemed to believe that the word indicates a musical instrument. This is a little ironic given the end of the Dark Tower series, in which Roland cries out his arrival, but discovers that he needed to have a horn.

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* The word "slughorn" used in the original poem "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" is actually a medieval word for "slogan," meaning "battlecry." Browning used it to mean an actual horn after reading the 18th century poetry of Thomas Chatterton, who seemed to believe that the word indicates a musical instrument. This is a little ironic given the end of the Dark Tower series, in which Roland cries out his arrival, but discovers that he needed to have a horn.

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* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Stephen King was run over and almost killed by a van between writing the fourth and fifth books. This winds up being ''very'' important in the story, foreshadowed through the fifth and sixth books and seen in the seventh, where [[spoiler:Roland's ''ka-tet'' are directly responsible for his survival.]]

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* AbilityOverAppearance: Creator/IdrisElba being cast as Roland in the film/TV adaptation. Since there is never any indication that Gilead has problems with racism, this probably won't affect the story, but Roland is also described in the books as looking like a young Creator/ClintEastwood.

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* AbilityOverAppearance: Creator/IdrisElba being cast as Roland in the film/TV adaptation. Since there is never any indication that Gilead has problems with racism, this probably won't affect the story, but Roland is also described in the books as looking like a young Creator/ClintEastwood. Creator/StephenKing has [[ApprovalOfGod given Elba his blessing in the role.]]
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* AbilityOverAppearance: Creator/IdrisElba being cast as Roland in the film/TV adaptation. Since there is never any indication that Gilead has problems with racism, this probably won't affect the story, but Roland is also described in the books as looking like a young Creator/ClintEastwood.
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*There was no horn in the original poem. "Slug-horn" is a variant on "Slogan", meaning in this context Roland's battlecry: "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came!"

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*There was no horn * The word "slughorn" used in the original poem. "Slug-horn" is a variant on "Slogan", meaning in this context Roland's battlecry: poem "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came!"
Came" is actually a medieval word for "slogan," meaning "battlecry." Browning used it to mean an actual horn after reading the 18th century poetry of Thomas Chatterton, who seemed to believe that the word indicates a musical instrument. This is a little ironic given the end of the Dark Tower series, in which Roland cries out his arrival, but discovers that he needed to have a horn.
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*There was no horn in the original poem. "Slug-horn" is a variant on "Slogan", meaning in this context Roland's battlecry: "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came!"

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