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Scary or Disconcerting Moments in Redwall

Started by MeadowR, August 30, 2013, 03:38:46 PM

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MeadowR

Does anyone find any moments in the books a little frightening or unsettling?

There's nothing generally really frightening in my opinion. However, when I read the books some years ago I found the parts where the characters go deep down under the abbey or at Salamandastron looking for tombs and such quite foreboding.

In Redwall, the way Brian described Matthias finding Guosim in the cave I found unsettling!

So what did you find, if not frightening, unsettling throughout the series?
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Leatho Shellhound

In the book The Long Patrol where they go down to the swamp filled ruins of kortir.
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Quote from: Leatho Shellhound on August 30, 2013, 05:37:11 PM
In the book The Long Patrol where they go down to the swamp filled ruins of kortir.
That part is pretty creepy in my opinion.
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The moment when Martin killed Badrang I was horrified because Martin seemed to enjoy it making him almost as bad as Badrang. In most of the other books the villain is killed by something else like Cluny and the bell and Gabool and the scorpion.  (did I spell the names right?)      
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I have to agree with the swampy Kotir ruins. Not because of the structure itself, I actually enjoyed reading about little references to Mossflower, but the toads. Such an awful existence!! It makes me squirm to think about it because we have no control over who we are born as. Martin the warrior could have turned out to be one of those and suffered in the dark with the other frogs. But come to think of it, they probably didnt know of anything better, did they?
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Quote from: Faiyloe on August 30, 2013, 08:33:05 PM
The moment when Martin killed Badrang I was horrified because Martin seemed to enjoy it making him almost as bad as Badrang. In most of the other books the villain is killed by something else like Cluny and the bell and Gabool and the scorpion.  (did I spell the names right?)      
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Quote from: Captain Tammo on August 30, 2013, 11:31:36 PM
I have to agree with the swampy Kotir ruins. Not because of the structure itself, I actually enjoyed reading about little references to Mossflower, but the toads. Such an awful existence!! It makes me squirm to think about it because we have no control over who we are born as. Martin the warrior could have turned out to be one of those and suffered in the dark with the other frogs. But come to think of it, they probably didnt know of anything better, did they?

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Worms or fish. They lived by eating toads and each other I think.
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The descriptions of the big snakes were always a little unsettling for me. I agree with you too Leatho, the doomwyte cavern was rather spooky.
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I remember some vermin summoning an adder from the quarry (I think Balis) and I recall there were some toads and snakes sent to lure it out. The snakes feigned death but the toads tried to scamper up the slope of the quarry to get away, always sliding back down towards the waiting adder. It was the first time I sympathized for a toad in redwall!
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