The Wee Free Men: Difference between revisions

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The 30th book in the ''[[Discworld]]'' series, the 2nd for young adults, and 1st in the Tiffany Aching apprentice witch series.

The Chalk has a problem. It is an isolated agricultural community near the highly magical region of the Discworld known as the Ramtops. And it has no witches. Not even one.

That means it is about to have [[The Fair Folk|Elves.]]

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* [[All Witches Have Cats]]: One of the pieces of "evidence" used against the old woman [[Burn the Witch|whose fate]] inspires Tiffany.

* [[Army of Lawyers]]: The Elf Queen summons one; the one thing the Nac Mac Feegle are scared of.

* [[Badass Bookworm]]: Tiffany in a nutshell. She read the dictionary (although it was not a ''pronunciation'' dictionary) because "she didn't know you weren't supposed to."

* [[Baleful Polymorph]]: {{spoiler|The Toad, though it takes it a while to remember it was once a lawyer, for the most time it's not sure whether it was transformed or enchanted to believe it had been transformed.}}

* [[Boisterous Bruiser]]: Pretty much all the male Feegles.

* [[Brown Note]]: Gonnagles specialize in this, either through hypersonic noise that causes excruciating pain to anything that can hear it or [[Invoked Trope|intentionally]] and ''[[Suckiness Is Painful|phenomenally]]'' [[Suckiness Is Painful|bad poetry]].

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* [[Closer to Earth]]: Feegle keldas are almost the only ones with even a drop of common sense.

* [[Cool Old Guy]]: The only exception to the [[Closer to Earth]] rule above is William the gonnagle, who is easily the oldest and the most sensible Feegle after the kelda dies.

* [[Trailers Always Spoil|Covers Always Spoil]]: Technically the case, but so subtle that you wouldn't notice. {{spoiler|It's mentioned that the Feegles' swords glow blue in the presence of lawyers. On the cover, the Feegles standing around the Toad have glowing swords}}.

* [[Delicious Distraction]]: This is how the dromes catch their prey, and also how to keep Wentworth, Tiffany's young, annoying brother, quiet.

* [[Everybody Lives|Everybody "Lives"]]: And thus Death doesn't have to show up. However: A. There are some things worse than dying, and B. The Nac Mac Feegle sincerely believe that they are currently in the afterlife (since the world is so full of good food, good drink, fun enemies, and lovely landscapes—i.e., places to fight—it must be heaven), and falling in battle is to be transported to the land of the living.

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* [[The Smurfette Principle]]: Justified: turns out Feegles are Eusocial just like bees. See [[Shout-Out]] above.

* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: {{spoiler|The Queen}} loves dishing these out at Tiffany. They all manage to work... until {{spoiler|Tiffany's had enough, and shows why you do NOT mess with a witch on her home territory}}.

* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: {{spoiler|Tiffany.}}

* [[Took a Level in Badass]]: {{spoiler|Tiffany.}}

* [[Twice-Told Tale]]: To ''[[Childe Rowland|Childe Rowland and Burde Helen]]'', though in this case {{spoiler|Roland is the one captured by the Elves, and it's the girl who has to rescue him}}.

** [[Word of God]] is that [https://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.pratchett/msg/d5903104ea79c8c3?hl=en& Sir Terry wasn't familiar with this story], and it's a coincidence "but it's eerie, innit? I think I might start pretending I had that in mind all along:-)".

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