The Dark Tower can refer to one of several things: The Dark Tower (series) — a series of novels by Stephen King. The Dark Tower (2004 novel) — the final novel in the above series. The Dark Tower (1977 novel) — a fragment of a novel by C. S. Lewis. The Dark Tower (game) — an electronic board game. Barad-dûr — the fortress of Sauron, the main adversary in The Lord of the Rings fantasy story by J.R.R. Tolkien. Other related arc

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The Dark Tower series - All-World Roland's World. All-World is the world/universe (see: parallel universe) also known as "Keystone Tower". It is the only world/universe in King's multi-verse that contains the Dark Tower in its physical form. All others contain a representative of the Tower, but not the Tower in an accessible form. From All-World, it is possible to actually enter the Dark Tower. All-World is divided into regions, such as In-World, Mid-World, End-World, Out-World, and Thunderclap. The ...

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Ka may mean: Ka , Fire Kà (Cirque du Soleil), a troupe based at the MGM Grand Las Vegas Ka (cyrillic), a letter of Cyrillic alphabet Ka (Dark Tower), a sort of karma in Stephen King's Dark Tower series Ka is the Acid dissociation constant, in chemistry A part of the soul in Egyptian mythology The particle that marks a question in Japanese grammar Ford Ka, model of car made by Ford Kamov, a Russian aircraft design bureau Mister Ka, main cha ...

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An amusement ride is any number of devices found in funfairs and amusement parks meant to appeal to various senses of the rider. Amusement ride - Types. Amusement ride - Amusement park rides. Larger rides, normally only found in amusement parks Dark rides Ferris wheels or Big wheels Freefall towers Giant Frisbee Gravitron House of mirrors Log flumes Loop-O-Plane Megadrop Motion platform ...

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The Childe Cycle is a series of science fiction novels by Gordon R. Dickson. The name Childe Cycle is an allusion to "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came", a poem by Robert Browning, which provided considerable inspiration for elements in Dickson's magnum opus. While, on the face of it, the Childe Cycle is a science fiction series, it is also an allegory. In addition to the six science fiction novels of the Cycle, Dickson had also planned three historical novels and three novels taking place in the present day. It is kn ...

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The game consists of a battery-powered center unit (the Dark Tower), a circular game board divided into four interlocking quarters (with a hole in the middle for the Tower), two cardboard tokens, several plastic flags, playing pieces, and locations which are placed in convenient holes in the board. In addition, there are several peg boards (with red Battleship-type pegs) used to keep track of a player's number of troops, gold and food. The Tower itself consists of a small membrane keyboard beneath a "display" (a piece of tinted plasti ...

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To play, the board is placed around the Tower and each player takes turns rotating the Tower to face him and then moving about the board. The quarter of the board in front of a particular player is his territory. Gameplay proceeds by moving your token one space and then pressing a button on the Tower that corresponds to the type of space (e.g., Plains, Tomb, Bazaar, Frontier) you've just moved to. The Tower then resolves what happens to the player by showing the player the appropriate cel and reporting whatever occurs. For instance, if the T ...

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The eldila (singular eldil) are a species of intelligent extraterrestrial. The human characters in the trilogy encounter them on various planets, but the eldila themselves are native to interplanetary and interstellar space ("Deep Heaven"). In standard science-fiction terms, they are "multi-dimensional energy beings." They are barely visible as faint, shifting light. Certain very powerful eldila, the Oyéresu (singular Oyarsa), control the course of nature on each of the planets of the Solar System. They (and maybe all the eldila) can m ...

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The cosmology of all three books—in which the Oyéresu of Mars and Venus somewhat resemble the corresponding gods from classical mythology—derives from Lewis's interest in medieval beliefs. Central concerns of his book The Discarded Image are the way medieval authors borrowed concepts from pre-Christian religion and science and attempted to reconcile them with Christianity, and the lack of a clear distinction between natural and supernatural phenomena (or between what are now called science fiction and fantasy) in medieval ...

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Some terminology in the "Old Solar" language is used throughout the trilogy. (Words used in only one volume of the trilogy are defined in the article about that volume.) Field of Arbol — the Solar System handra — a planet or land Malacandra — Mars Perelandra — Venus Thulcandra — Earth, literally "The Silent Planet" Glund or Glundandra — Jupiter Viritrilbia — Mercury Lurga — Saturn hnau or 'nau — a rational being, capable of speech, intellect, and ...

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Stephen King was born in Portland, Maine to Donald Edwin King and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury. When King was two years old, his father deserted his family. Ruth raised King and his adopted older brother David by herself, sometimes under great financial strain. The family moved to Ruth's home town of Durham, Maine but also spent brief periods in Fort Wayne, Indiana and Union, Connecticut. King attended Durham Elemen ...

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King's horror novels often reflect and are constructed upon a consistent view of the world, which is most clearly described in Insomnia and The Dark Tower. In this view, he describes existence as being metaphorically like a dark tower, set in a huge landscape of red flowers. In this tower are many levels, with entities on each level. Some are hostile, some benevolent. Human life and all that people are aware of, lives on the equiva ...

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Stephen King was born in Portland, Maine to Donald Edwin King and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury and is of Scots-Irish ancestry. When King was two years old, his father deserted his family. Ruth raised King and his adopted older brother David by herself, sometimes under great financial strain. The family moved to Ruth's home town of Durham, Maine but also spent brief periods in Fort Wayne, Indiana and Stratford, Connecticut. King attended Durham Elemen ...

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In King's nonfiction book, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, King discusses his writing style at great length and depth. King believes that, generally speaking, good stories cannot be called consciously and should not be plotted out beforehand but are better served by focusing on a single "seed" of a story and letting the story grow itself from there. King often begins a story with no idea how the story will end. He mentions in the Dark Tower series that, halfway through its lengthy writing period (nearly 30 years), King recei ...

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Randall Flagg - The Stand. Flagg made his first appearance in the 1978 apocalyptic novel The Stand. In it, he was an antichrist-like being who was trying to stop civilization in the United States from rebuilding after a devastating plague. Flagg is portrayed as the personification of evil set against Mother Abigail, the personification of good, and attracts many drawn to technology, law and order and dictatorship-sty ...

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According to The Stand, Flagg has been known to use or be refered to by the following names: Ahaz Anubis Astaroth Beelzebub The Boogeyman The Dark Man The Hard Case John the Conqueror Legion The Man with No Face The Midnight Rambler Nyarlathotep Old Creeping Judas Ramsey Forrest Richard Fry Robert Franq Russell Faraday R'lyeh Seti The Walkin' Dude The Eyes of the Dragon claims he also used the following: Bill Hinch ...

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Throughout most of King's novels, Flagg's origins and true nature are left to the reader's imagination. In The Stand, it is suggested that Flagg cannot remember his life before each "era" of his history (possibly because this variation of him never really had a childhood, and just at some point "became"), and that he has vague memories of having been a Marine, a Klansman, and of being involved in the kidnapping of Patty Hearst. It is said that he was always able to find extremists and ra ...

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In the summer of 1999, King was in the middle of On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft. At the time, he had finished the memoir section and had abandoned the book for nearly eighteen months, unsure of how to proceed or whether to bother. King reports that it was the first book that he'd abandoned since writing The Stand decades earlier. He had just decided to continue the book. On June 17, he had written up a list of questions that he was frequently asked about writing, as well as some that he wished he would be asked about it; on June 18, he had ...

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