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The Raven newsletter December 2008 issue

According to this edit by an anonymous editor, the news about Peter S. Beagle's plans regarding his "three Schmendrick stories" and three unicorn stories were released in an issue of Beagle's newsletter. Can someone identify the issue and/or direct me to a link to an archive of it (couldn't find it on the newsletter's webpage archives) so that we can source it properly? Thanks. --SilentAria ^talk 03:07, 20 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I never read the book but in this artical is said that "Lír jumps into the bull's path and is killed." Then goes on to say "Lír, now king after Haggard's death, attempts to follow the Unicorn" So am I missing some thing in the story or was this just error?208.93.129.10 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 06:52, 31 May 2009 (UTC).[reply]

Thank you for noting that; it seems I forgot to mention that the unicorn revived him. I'll add it in now. --SilentAria ^talk 10:48, 31 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The plot seems to be a strange amalgamation of the movie plot and the book plot. For instance, in the book, the unicorn meets the butterfly after she's been on the road for a while, while the article has her meet the butterfly before she leaves the forest, which is how it happened in the movie. I haven't read all of the book, so I can't fix it, but hopefully someone can. 76.223.250.231 (talk) 03:41, 11 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Deluxe Edition

I have provided ";Citations" for the first ed and the 2007 Deluxe Ed and refashioned all inline references to the latter so that they succinctly link to its Citation (using [[#deluxe|Deluxe Edition]],).

I have nearly copied the Deluxe ";Contents" from ISFDB into section Publications. Someone with the book in hand may improve the description and of course improve its use as a source.

For one, our use of the Deluxe Edition as a source should not simply give page numbers (Deluxe Edition, p247ff). Either the references or the text where they appear should specify the Introduction by Connor Cochran, Interview of Peter Beagle, text of Two Hearts, and corrected text of The Last Unicorn. --P64 (talk) 16:33, 26 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Characters: The Red Bull

I believe something should be added about the Red Bull; at least that it is blind, and apparently somehow enthralled to King Haggard. To me it has always been both enigmatic and symbolic of some profoundly primordial force of nature, neither good nor evil. It was always destined, of course, to back down from any unicorn that simply stood up to it; thereby securing its own 'release from contract'. Of course what I'm saying is too subjectively interpretive for Wikipedia - but surely a few words about the Red Bull are called for. Subtendant (talk) 04:05, 4 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

How about this?

The Red Bull is a magical creature, blind but powerful, which is sensitive to the presence of any unicorn and tries to intimidate it into submission, thence driving it into the sea. Evidently the Red Bull has always succeeded in this task. Neither its affiliation with King Haggard nor its pattern of behaviour is explained, but these both end when finally a Unicorn stands up to it.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.143.242.138 (talk • contribs)

I think that's overly wordy, and to me saying "evidently" implies original research. And rather than saying "a unicorn" we should more specifically say exactly what happens. Cheers. DonIago (talk) 16:25, 23 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You're right; so then how about this?

The Red Bull is a magical creature, blind but powerful, which is sensitive to the presence of any unicorn and tries to intimidate it into submission, thence driving it into the sea. Neither the Red Bull's affiliation with King Haggard nor its pattern of behaviour is explained, but these both end when finally the Last Unicorn stands up to it.

That seems okay to me in principle, though I'd like at least one additional editor to chime in. DonIago (talk) 04:23, 24 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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differences in book versions

Hi, I own an abridged paperback of this story. I feel the story is about the same as the movie with slight differences. I came here to look for differences to the hardcover edition, but neither the page length given for different editions nor "There have been many print editions of The Last Unicorn." Helps with that. I also find that original 1968 editions are prohibitively expensive attributed to "the beautiful illustrations" but i have never seen one and this article doesn't mention it. 176.11.75.177 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 21:16, 31 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]