A Light in the Distance: Difference between revisions

*** It's implied however that these are not real spirits of the dead, but evil spirits summoned by Sauron to guard this border of his realm, luring travellers to their doom. The undead in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' generally seem to have nothing to do with the actual people who died, with the exception of the ghosts of Dunharg.

* ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe'': Upon first entering Narnia, Lucy sees a light in the distance, which she finds to be a gas lamp post. In the middle of a forest. It is at tis lamppost that Lucy meets Mr. Tumnus. Its presence is explained in ''The Magician's Nephew''.

* In the second Bahzell novel the titular hero and his companions are stuck out in a huge storm not far from shelter, but it's so bad that they have no idea where to go. However Wencit of Rum arrives to save them, and Bahzell, cynical [[Deadpan Snarker]] that he is cracks wise about the timely arrival.

* At one point in ''[[Jules Verne|The Mysterious Island]]'', the castaways have built a small ship and some of them sail to another island some two hundred miles away. On the way back, a squall blows them off course, but then they see a powerful light (visible at twenty miles) on the shore of their island that guides them home. They're rather disconcerted to learn, later, that their friends on the island '''didn't''' make that light. At least, not any friends they '''knew'''....