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The Lost Years of Merlin

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The Lost Years of Merlin	comment	The Lost Years of Merlin is a five-book epic authored by T.A. Barron, which details the adventures of a teenaged Merlin as he explores the magical isle of Fincayra, with a great amount of focus on how the wizard we all know and love today develops from a bratty teenage boy into the wise and all-knowing wizard.The boy is rooted in humble beginnings in a remote village implied to be somewhere in Wales (called Gwynedd in those days), where he lives with his well-intended and doting mother, is tormented by the local bully, and yearns for greater things. When a terrible incident results in the severe wounding of the bully and the loss of the boy's sight, he lives in anguish for several weeks until he slowly begins to develop a magical "second sight," the true awakening of his latent magic powers. He then leaves the village where he has dwelt his entire known life and sails away on a self-built raft in order to find his true home. As luck would have it, a storm overtakes him and he washes up on the shores of Fincayra, a legendary isle said to be the gateway between heaven and earth, an "in-between" place. As the boy explores the island, he makes new friends and dangerous enemies, all of whom help him grow into a respectable young man worthy of carrying the title of greatest wizard of all time.The five books in the series are: The Lost Years of Merlin (1996) The Seven Songs of Merlin (1997) The Fires of Merlin (1998) The Mirror of Merlin (1999) The Wings of Merlin (2000)It is not extremely well-known and is a pretty archetypical Standard Fantasy Setting, but each book was received relatively decently and sold enough to make the New York Times Best-Sellers List.It eventually gained a Sequel Series, The Great Tree of Avalon, then another, Merlin's Dragon and later Merlin: The Book of Magic. There is talk of a movie adaptation of at least the first book of the series. It has no relation to the TV show on the BBC.
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The Lost Years of Merlin / int_113480b7	comment	Canon Foreigner: Pretty much every character except for Merlin, Nimue and Ector (who's actually King Arthur) is absent from Arthurian Legend. A few of the characters (Dagda, Rhita Gawr, Balor) are adapted from Celtic Mythology though.
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The Lost Years of Merlin / int_12aa82b5	type	Interfaith Smoothie
The Lost Years of Merlin / int_12aa82b5	comment	Interfaith Smoothie: In-Universe, Merlin's mother Bronwen worships both the Celtic gods such as Dagda and also Jesus. The series has Dagda show a lot of traits traditionally attributed to Jesus as well (possibly in the books they are the same being).
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The Lost Years of Merlin / int_18bf4326	comment	Anti-Magic: Negatus Mysterium, but it only works if the magic user believes its effect is real.
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The Lost Years of Merlin / int_1ac35e7c	type	Garden Garment
The Lost Years of Merlin / int_1ac35e7c	comment	Garden Garment: Rhia is dressed in plants.
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The Lost Years of Merlin / int_22c41566	type	Trilogy Creep
The Lost Years of Merlin / int_22c41566	comment	Trilogy Creep: For the first two books, the series was advertised as a trilogy. With the third book, it was decided that two more would follow and the billing for the series became an "epic" instead. In the introduction for the third book, the author states that Merlin himself told him that three books would not be enough.
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The Lost Years of Merlin / int_2588feac	comment	Winged Humanoid: One of the odd things Merlin notices about himself in the first book is a persistent ache between his shoulder blades. It turns out that all Fincayran humans have this, supposedly because they once had wings that were taken away as punishment for their sins. They get them back in the last book.
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The Lost Years of Merlin / int_26ea11ed	type	Mysterious Parent
The Lost Years of Merlin / int_26ea11ed	comment	Mysterious Parent: Branwen. Even her true name is mysterious—it's really Elen.
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The Lost Years of Merlin / int_2d7c66d3	type	The Stars Are Going Out
The Lost Years of Merlin / int_2d7c66d3	comment	The Stars Are Going Out: This is a big part of The Great Tree of Avalon sequel series. In the first book, the stars of the constellation of Merlin's staff go out, so the characters seek a way to travel to the stars to relight them.
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The Lost Years of Merlin / int_2f41cac1	type	Our Werebeasts Are Different
The Lost Years of Merlin / int_2f41cac1	comment	Our Werebeasts Are Different: Hallia, a deer-woman, is a major character (and Merlin's Love Interest) from the third book on. The Sequel Series also includes a race of eagle-people.
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The Lost Years of Merlin / int_352def2a	type	Burn the Witch!
The Lost Years of Merlin / int_352def2a	comment	Burn the Witch!: A group of bullies tries to do this to Merlin's mother. They pay dearly for this.
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The Lost Years of Merlin / int_3f1aadeb	type	Strictly Formula
The Lost Years of Merlin / int_3f1aadeb	comment	Strictly Formula: Merlin has a limited number of days to stop (antagonist) from harming (person/thing). At some point, he will be Asleep for Days, giving him even less time. Also, there is a rhyming prophecy that tells us what will happen, assuming the reader can figure out its twist(s). The Mirror of Merlin is the Oddball in the Series partly because it ignores these tropes.
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The Lost Years of Merlin / int_41ba335a	type	Amnesiac Hero
The Lost Years of Merlin / int_41ba335a	comment	Amnesiac Hero: The first book begins with Merlin washing up on the shores of Wales, with no memory of who he is. He never actually recovers these memories, either, just pieces together what happened.
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The Lost Years of Merlin / int_4221e01a	type	Elemental Embodiment
The Lost Years of Merlin / int_4221e01a	comment	Elemental Embodiment: Merlin befriends an air elemental when he frees her from a container Domnu had trapped her in. To repay him, she later helps him retrieve his staff from Nimue.
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The Lost Years of Merlin / int_47f95750	type	Separated at Birth
The Lost Years of Merlin / int_47f95750	comment	Separated at Birth: Merlin and Rhiannon.
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The Lost Years of Merlin / int_4ac8b81f	type	Humans Are the Real Monsters
The Lost Years of Merlin / int_4ac8b81f	comment	Humans Are the Real Monsters: Sort of a running theme, really, from Stagmar (the king of Fincayra's humans) to the backstory in the last book. Exaggerated in the Sequel Series.
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The Lost Years of Merlin / int_54eceae6	type	Magic Is Evil
The Lost Years of Merlin / int_54eceae6	comment	Magic Is Evil: A lot of the people in Merlin's village fear magic as inherently evil. Even after he goes to Fincayra, a Magical Land, some still have this view. Clan Righteous is an Anti-Magical Faction that views magic as the curse of the land, seeking to wipe it out along with all magical creatures and magic users.
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The Lost Years of Merlin / int_5527dc0c	comment	Plot Coupon: The Seven Songs of Magic in The Seven Songs of Merlin, which Merlin needs in order to access the underworld and get an elixir to cure his mother, yet another Plot Coupon.
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The Lost Years of Merlin / int_575fd5e2	type	Dark Is Not Evil
The Lost Years of Merlin / int_575fd5e2	comment	Dark Is Not Evil: Domnu, who is described as being cold but not evil, like her other name, Dark Fate. She can be kind of a jerk, though.
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The Lost Years of Merlin / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
The Lost Years of Merlin / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: A lot of Fincaryan humans are prejudiced against other sapient races on the island. In the past, it got to the point of enslaving and even sacrificing them. Dwarves generally don't like humans, as shown with Merlin's hostile reception among them. Treelings have been hunted to extinction. Cwen in the last one. The deer people have been hunted for food by humans, despite them being rational beings like themselves who can take human form. Most humans also don't care that many of the trees can think as well, cutting them down like the rest.
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The Lost Years of Merlin / int_5fcedca	type	Big Eater
The Lost Years of Merlin / int_5fcedca	comment	Big Eater: The Living Stones are rocks that lie dormant until someone happens across them, and then they eat that person/thing. Grand Elusa is a large spider woman who, while helpful, really advises you to leave when she gets hungry. She saves the heroes from the original encounter with living stones by eating one.
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The Lost Years of Merlin / int_659ef759	type	Implacable Man
The Lost Years of Merlin / int_659ef759	comment	Implacable Man: The first book has the Ghoulians, undead warriors of Stangmar that pull swords and daggers out and cast them aside like they're nothing, and even get up after a very angry giant stomps on them over and over again. The Wings of Merlin has Slayer, who uses any spell Merlin uses to attack or flee back on him, and even goes through a desperate Stangmar, survives being crushed in Shim's giant hand, comes back after being thrown out into the sea, swims through the sea after Merlin escapes on a boat to an island surrounded by a magic barrier, proceeds through said barrier, and even survives a rock slide on top of him.
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The Lost Years of Merlin / int_6a3c49f	type	Direct Line to the Author
The Lost Years of Merlin / int_6a3c49f	comment	Direct Line to the Author: The stories are said to come to the author directly from Merlin.
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The Lost Years of Merlin / int_6b983bf7	type	Unstoppable Rage
The Lost Years of Merlin / int_6b983bf7	comment	Unstoppable Rage: See Burn the Witch! up above. Also, Slayer.
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The Lost Years of Merlin / int_736d791f	type	Adaptational Badass
The Lost Years of Merlin / int_736d791f	comment	Adaptational Badass: Rhita Gawr is a very obscure character from Arthurian mythology—he was a king (and possibly a giant) who defeated other kings, cut off their beards to humiliate them and made them into a cloak. Arthur killed the guy. In this series, he's the king of evil spirits and basically wants to conquer the universe. See Hijacked by Jesus below.
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The Lost Years of Merlin / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
The Lost Years of Merlin / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: Bumblewy's on-the-spot requiem for Merlin is so over-the-top and sappy that the dragon who was about to eat them decides they're just too funny to devour (helped by the fact that it's still half-asleep). Bumblewy is quite unhappy though, as that's actually the saddest poem he knows.
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The Lost Years of Merlin / int_8ab096bd	type	Dehumanization
The Lost Years of Merlin / int_8ab096bd	comment	Dehumanization: In the first book, Merlin realizes to his horror that what he believed was just a bundle of rags he'd hit with a stone when playing with other boys is really a person. They retort that this isn't true-it's a Jew. After he refuses to go along with this, they caution Merlin against defending Jews, because people might think he has Jewish stock himself.
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The Lost Years of Merlin / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
The Lost Years of Merlin / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: Dinatius and the bullies try to burn Merlin's mother, they fail when Merlin attacks them, and the fire consumes them. Dinatius begins to murder innocents and blames their deaths on Merlin because his near-death experience allowed him to serve Rhita Gawr.
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The Lost Years of Merlin / int_a2836be5	type	Identity Amnesia
The Lost Years of Merlin / int_a2836be5	comment	Identity Amnesia: The first book starts with Merlin Emrys being washed up on the shores of Wales with no memory of his past.
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The Lost Years of Merlin / int_a2cbad1	type	Half-Human Hybrid
The Lost Years of Merlin / int_a2cbad1	comment	Half-Human Hybrid: Subverted with Merlin. Arthurian legend usually makes him the son of a demon; here that theory is floated but inaccurate. He is, however, half normal human and half Fincayran human, and his Fincayran parent had a mer-woman mother.
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The Lost Years of Merlin / int_a6bd0685	type	Died in Your Arms Tonight
The Lost Years of Merlin / int_a6bd0685	comment	Died in Your Arms Tonight: In the second book, Rhia dies in Merlin's arms, but in the end he brings her back. In the fifth book, Stangmar dies in Elen's arms, and CairprÃ© in Merlin's.
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The Lost Years of Merlin / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: Merlin is bullied over being a supposed bastard, Jews are viewed as inhuman by many while fair game for being stoned, and Branwen's labeled a witch because of her skill with herbs which people view as magic. This all sets the tone for life in Merlin's early medieval Welsh village.
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The Lost Years of Merlin / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Shim's "As big as the highliest tree."
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The Lost Years of Merlin / int_b95d100b	comment	Pointy Ears: This is the feature that distinguishes Fincayran humans from others. Aside from that, they look just the same. Merlin is thought to be a demon by some in Gwynned (Wales) over his.
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The Lost Years of Merlin / int_c66cb5a9	type	Human Sacrifice
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The Lost Years of Merlin / int_c83a589c	type	Luke, I Am Your Father
The Lost Years of Merlin / int_c83a589c	comment	Luke, I Am Your Father: Stangmar to Merlin at the end of the first book.
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The Lost Years of Merlin / int_d3b2cc39	comment	The Wings of Merlin has Slayer, who uses any spell Merlin uses to attack or flee back on him, and even goes through a desperate Stangmar, survives being crushed in Shim's giant hand, comes back after being thrown out into the sea, swims through the sea after Merlin escapes on a boat to an island surrounded by a magic barrier, proceeds through said barrier, and even survives a rock slide on top of him.
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The Lost Years of Merlin / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
The Lost Years of Merlin / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: Nimue steals Merlin's staff in The Seven Songs of Merlin, calling him a thief when he snatches it back from her with the help of an air spirit.
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The Lost Years of Merlin / int_dd3969b	type	Hijacked by Jesus
The Lost Years of Merlin / int_dd3969b	comment	Hijacked by Jesus: Rhita Gawr is basically the Celtic version of Satan in this series. See Adaptational Badass above. Dagda is also more Christ-like.
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The Lost Years of Merlin / int_e205b147	type	Merlin and Nimue
The Lost Years of Merlin / int_e205b147	comment	Merlin and Nimue: Downplayed; Nimue appears as a minor character in The Seven Songs of Merlin; she's actually a few years older than him, and flirts with him just enough to distract him so that she can steal his Magic Staff; he gets it back and she's gone from the rest of the story. Her future self is the Big Bad of The Mirror of Merlin. Although she trapped future!Merlin in the crystal cave, there's no real indication that they had the mentor/student relationship from the story, and young!Merlin changes that future from happening anyway.
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The Lost Years of Merlin / int_e26f04b4	comment	Last Of Her Kind: Cwen is the last treeling on Fincayra.
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The Lost Years of Merlin / int_e6a901a3	comment	Meaningful Rename: In the first book the main character goes by "Emrys," though his mother is such a Mysterious Parent that he isn't sure that she isn't lying about that being his name; as such he never feels comfortably with it. At the end, he starts calling himself "Merlin" in memory of his pet merlin, which pulled a Heroic Sacrifice in the big battle.
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The Lost Years of Merlin / int_f0fe7e80	comment	But Now I Must Go: The bittersweet ending of the fifth book has Merlin choose to leave Fincayra and go back to the human world, where his destiny as Arthur's mentor lies.
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The Lost Years of Merlin / int_fba863ae	comment	Here There Be Dragons: The maps seen at the beginning of the books feature this, with various creatures depicted in the series, such as kreelixes.
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The Lost Years of Merlin / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: Merlin says that if Bumblewy can make anyone laugh, he'll eat his boot. He's good as his word and — not under magical oath or anything — has to be stopped from finishing it.
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