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:* These shout outs are all the work of Bioware writer Mary Kirby.
* In the Brecilian Forest, you meet a crazy old man who wants to play a game, trading questions for questions and answers for answers. His very first one is "[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail|What...is your name?]]" Said in the ''exact'' way as in Holy Grail.
* The [[The Lord of the Rings]] movies obviously had a ''great'' influence on the visual design of the <s> orcs</s> darkspawn and the cinematics. Just look at <s>The Battle of Helm's Deep</s> The Battle of Ostagar. Listen to the music, especially when fighting darkspawn in the Wilds, it sounds almost exactly like the orc theme from the movie.
** Also, the hurlock commander in charge does the neck-cricking thing that the Uruk-Hai commander does in the movie.
** No one has mentioned that it seems an awful lot like Helm's Deep? The spawn of evil are charging forward with a forest behind them towards a guarded fortress on a rainy night? All we needed was Aragorn, Gimli and Legolas to show up.
** The Deep Roads have obvious Moria parallels—a destroyed dwarven kingdom overrun by darkspawn/orcs, rife with the valuable mineral lyrium/mithril.
** Indirectly, Flemeth's unseen rescue from the Tower of Ishaal is highly reminiscent of the way Gandalf and the eagles save Frodo and Sam from Mount Doom, if Morrigan's story is true. A note the PC can find also mentions that a band of unfortunate explorers "should have taken the damn giant eagles."
** A possible reply to one of Wynne's conversations about being a Grey Warden is: [[The Lord of the Rings|"I do not want power. I have never wanted it." Hello, there, Aragorn.]]
*** Wynne is the second in seniority amongst a group of mages, who acts as mentor and wise guide to a [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits|large travelling group of young'uns]], and who [[Heroic Sacrifice|loses her life]] in a desperate defeat of a powerful [[Eldritch Abomination]] in order to save a younger and less able companion. But she was [[Unexplained Recovery|saved by a mystical, arcane force]] and sent back to complete her task. Now if that doesn't have Gandalf written all over it...
** In the Dalish origin, it is possible to find evidence of a failed attempt at establishing trade between elves and dwarves, stating "Some dwarves dug too high and too frugally and struck elves."
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