The "I shall wear midnight" thread

[Jan Van Quirm]

She doesn't look like the 'usual' Paul Kidby Granny no - she looks more the Miss Jean Brodie type (some resemblance there to Maggie Smith)

With the shepherd's crook maybe she's Granny Aching come back in some kind of supernatural event - which may account for the black as she didn't wear it in life either I'd say...

Miss Tick maybe?

 

[Tonyblack]

The older witch seems to have a (possibly) hare-shaped brooch holding her cloak together. I suspect it's going to be a new character.

 

[Tonyblack]

As we can see from the other covers HERE - each cover has Tiffany with a new witch that we meet in the individual book. Miss Tick in Wee Free Men, Miss Level in Hat Full of Sky and Miss Treason in Wintersmith. I'm basing my theory that the witch on the new cover is a new character from that.

 

[Doughnut Jimmy]

Wow well spotted Tony, definitley Hare shaped

 

[chris.ph]

according to amazon its out on sept 7th just in time for my birthday

 

[Tonyblack]

Take a look at this close up of one of the Feegles:

He seems to be holding an Ankh-Morpork City Watch badge as a shield.

If you look at the picture of the cover HERE at Amazon, you can zoom in really closely.

 

[ShadowNinjaCat]

Nicely spotted Tonyblack

 

[Tonyblack]

I found Wintersmith got better with more readings. But Hat Full of Sky will always be a very special book for us. It's my favourite of the trio so far.

For "us"? Your and... Perdita X?

Sorry Tristan, I missed this post and never responded to it.

Hat Full of Sky is the book that brought swreader and me together. She had a bookstore when then and got an advance copy so she didn't have anyone on the Pratchett site we were both on to talk to about it.

Then I happened to go to my local Tesco store and someone had screwed up and put the books out two weeks too early. Needless to say, I grabbed a copy before the mistake was spotted.

I didn't know Sharlene very well then, but we started to PM each other to talk about the book and the rest is history.

I told Terry about it a few years later and said that he was an unlikely Cupid. It was a million to one chance (obviously).

 

[Dotsie]

He seems to be holding an Ankh-Morpork City Watch badge as a shield.

And he's in uniform - a feegle watchman! How would that work? Do you think Tiffany ends up in AM? Or is the feegle one of the sammies that gets trained in AM then goes off to work elsewhere?

 

[mystmoon]

Could he be Buggy Swires? Don't ask me why he's there though

 

[Dotsie]

And he's blue.

 

[Tristan]

It's definately another witch, Terry mentioned it somewhere... in an interview.

Wikipedia:

For example, the book features an urban witch, who does not like the countryside and whose magic is to do with the city.

It definately makes sense, Tiffany going to Ankh-Morpork, meeting this urban witch, the city watch badge... and who knows, maybe we'll see Ek again?

 

[Doughnut Jimmy]

I'm not sure you can claim that's an urban witch Tristan - what would she be doing with a hare?
I suspect there may be more than one new witch

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

I'm not sure you can claim that's an urban witch Tristan - what would she be doing with a hare?
I suspect there may be more than one new witch

Shaving it,you what women are like about harey armpits. :twisted: Thought I would slip that one in before pooh or chris got a chance

 

[Tonyblack]

I read through this thread yesterday and someone suggested that Terry had commented that Tiffany would be going to A-M.

I thought of Buggy Swires - but Wee Mad Arthur is said to be a Feegle in the Discworld Companion. I guess we'll have to wait and see.

 

[Doughnut Jimmy]

Dug that's just bad

Tony are Feegles actually described as blue or have they just got loots of tattoos? I don't have CJ or Wee Frreee Men handy to check

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

Dug that's just bad

Tony are Feegles actually described as blue or have they just got loots of tattoos? I don't have CJ or Wee Frreee Men handy to check

Doughnut to answer your question they are Blue but aso have a lot of tattoos, I believe the idea came from the picts! small and warlike ancient scottish inhabitants who covered themselves in Blue woad and fought naked against the Romans.

 

[Tonyblack]

Dug that's just bad

Tony are Feegles actually described as blue or have they just got loots of tattoos? I don't have CJ or Wee Frreee Men handy to check

Doughnut to answer your question they are Blue but aso have a lot of tattoos, I believe the idea came from the picts! small and warlike ancient scottish inhabitants who covered themselves in Blue woad and fought naked against the Romans.

What Dug said!

Not to be confused with Mel Gibson's Braveheart movie. There's no evidence that the Scottish fought wearing blue paint in the time of William Wallace.

 

[Jan Van Quirm]

Aww! But it matched Mel's eyes so nicely (after make up had fixed all the red from the previous night's single malt binge-drinking sesh)

Actually wasn't it because they were Glasgow Rangers supporters? :twisted:

 

[Ponder Stibbons]

Dug that's just bad

Tony are Feegles actually described as blue or have they just got loots of tattoos? I don't have CJ or Wee Frreee Men handy to check

Doughnut to answer your question they are Blue but aso have a lot of tattoos, I believe the idea came from the picts! small and warlike ancient scottish inhabitants who covered themselves in Blue woad and fought naked against the Romans.

What Dug said!

Not to be confused with Mel Gibson's Braveheart movie. There's no evidence that the Scottish fought wearing blue paint in the time of William Wallace.

I just had an idea after seeing the fight between aragorn and the feegles: Are the feegles part parody of smurfs as well?