[Dragaera] Peasant fantasy

[Steve Rapaport via Dragaera]

...And if we're comparing Taran to Luke Skywalker, Luke is essentially the
same. He rises from humble origins, fulfills a prophecy, shows he has the
strength of character to be the hero, and becomes that hero.

Luke's genetics ARE known (eventually), but he's hardly the son of the
previous King, and he doesn't replace that King in the end, either.

On 30 October 2014 00:00, Jon Lincicum via Dragaera <
dragaera at lists.dragaera.info> wrote:

> On 10/29/2014 4:53 PM, Damien Sullivan via Dragaera wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 11:29:57PM +0000, Steve Rapaport via Dragaera
>> wrote:
>>
>>> If this trope includes Taran pig-keeper, then it already includes the
>>> "little lost prince".
>>>
>> IIRC Taran's parentage is never revealed.  He's just a foundling from a
>> battlefield.
>>
>>
> It's never explicitly stated. However, the "prophecy" that anoints him
> High King at the end of the story implied that the true High King would be
> revealed by his refusal to leave Prydan. This sort of leans on the
> Arthurian legend that the Kingship was actually his by birthright, (as
> Arthur's kinship with Uther Pendragon was by pulling the sword from the
> stone), rather than the revealing action alone somehow ennobling him beyond
> his birth station.
>
> Lloyd Alexander doesn't say for certain one way or the other, however.
>
> --Majikjon
>
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\Steve