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Rincewind ( ) is a fictional character who appears in several of the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett.Olausson, L., Sangster, C. (2006:330). Oxford BBC Guide to Pronunciation: The Essential Handbook of the Spoken Word. United Kingdom: OUP Oxford. He was a failed student at Unseen University for wizards in Ankh-Morpork, often described as "the magical equivalent to the number zero". He spent most of his time running away from people who wanted to kill him for various reasons. The reason that he was still alive and running was explained by noting that while he was born with a wizard's spirit, he had the body of a long-distance sprinter.
Rincewind was portrayed by David Jason in the film adaptation of The Colour of Magic. Pratchett said in an interview that he unwittingly took Rincewind's name from "Churm Rincewind", a fictitious person referred to in early "'Beachcomber" columns in the Daily Express.
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at:1983 text:"The Colour of Magic"
at:1986 text:"The Light Fantastic"
at:1987 text:"[[Mort]] (cameo)"
at:1988 text:"[[Sourcery]]"
at:1990 text:"Eric"
at:1994 text:"Interesting Times"
at:1995 text:"Discworld (video game)
at:1996 text:"[[Discworld II: Missing Presumed...!?]]"
at:1998 text:"The Last Continent"
at:1999 text:"The Science of Discworld"
at:2001 text:"The Last Hero"
at:2002 text:"[[The Science of Discworld II: The Globe]]"
at:2005 text:"[[The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch]]"
at:2009 text:"Unseen Academicals (minor character)"
at:2013 text:"[[The Science of Discworld IV: Judgement Day]]~[[Raising Steam]] (mentioned in footnotes)"
Rincewind and Twoflower parted ways at the end of The Light Fantastic and Twoflower gave Rincewind his sapient-pearwood Luggage. Rincewind's adventures continued, and he was chased across various regions of the Discworld in spite of, or often driven by, his desire to find somewhere he can relish boredom in peace and quiet.
During the events of The Last Hero, in which the Discworld risks being destroyed if Cohen the Barbarian and his Silver Horde succeed in their plan to "return fire to the Gods with interest", Rincewind said that he did not wish to volunteer for a dangerous mission. When asked to explain, he said he merely refused for appearances, because someone was bound to nominate him because of his knowledge of the geography of Cori Celesti or his friendship with Cohen, so even if he refused, somehow events would conspire against him and he would end up going on the mission anyway as he attempted to escape.
Raising Steam mentions Rincewind in footnotes, which refer to him as a professor at the university, studying the effects of different flowers on the nervous system.
Rincewind is also the player character of the 1995 Discworld video game. After a dragon is spotted in Ankh-Morpork, Unseen University's archchancellor sends Rincewind to find the source of the trouble. In the sequel, , Death disappears and the archchancellor puts Rincewind in charge of finding him and convincing him to get back to work. In both games, Rincewind is voiced by Eric Idle.
Some of Rincewind's talents once stemmed from a semi-sentient and highly destructive spell that had lodged itself inside his mind and scared off all other spells (mentioned in The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic; though even without the spell's interference he was still an extremely incompetent wizard). The spell occasionally tried to make itself heard when Rincewind was going through a stressful time; as he was falling to his near-death, he said the first seven out of eight words of the spell.
In Sourcery and Unseen Academicals Rincewind claims that he never knew his mother as she ran away before he was born.
Rincewind has received several titles during his stay at the Unseen University; some of them because nobody else wants them, others to keep him busy doing work unrelated to magic. The Science of Discworld These titles and their accompanying tenure include the condition that he cannot have any salary, influence, or opinions. They do, however, include meals, his laundry done, and (as a result of all the impressive-sounding but essentially meaningless titles that have been bestowed upon him) up to eight buckets of coal a day during the entire year.
Its function is to act as both a luggage carrier and bodyguard for its owner. The Luggage is fiercely defensive of its owner, and is generally homicidal in nature, killing or eating several people and monsters and destroying various ships, walls, doors, geographic features, and other obstacles throughout the series. Its mouth contains "lots of big square teeth, white as sycamore, and a pulsating tongue, red as mahogany". The inside area of The Luggage hammerspace, and contains many conveniences: even after it has just devoured a monster, the next time it opens the owner will find his underwear, neatly pressed and smelling slightly of lavender. It is unknown exactly what happens to anyone it 'eats'.
One of the most notable features of The Luggage is its ability to follow its current owner anywhere, including places like inside its owner's mind, off the edge of the Disc, Death's Domain, inside the Octavo, the Dungeon Dimensions, and even (literally) to Hell and back. Like all luggage, it is constantly getting lost and having to track its owner down. It has only one way of overcoming obstacles, and that is to simply ignore them and smash a hole through them—including a wall to a magic shop that had since relocated to another city by magical means.
While the current release (version 3.0.0) of VLC media player is named Lord Vetinari, a previous release (version 2.1.0) was named Rincewind. Other releases of VLC media player have been named "The Luggage" (version 1.1.0), and release 2.0.0 was named "Twoflower", the character that gave The Luggage to Rincewind (in The Light Fantastic).
Rincewind and Discworld witch Nanny Ogg appeared on first-class Royal Mail stamps in March 2011. The issue included wizards, witches and enchanters from British fiction, and also included characters from the King Arthur, from J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, and from the Narnia series of C. S. Lewis.
Paul Whitelaw, writing for The Scotsman, felt that David Jason was "clearly several decades too old" to be Rincewind in the film adaptation of The Colour of Magic.
The Cretaceous gymnosperm species Phoenicopsis rincewindii is named after Rincewind.Watson, J., Lydon, S. J. and Harrison, N. A. (2001). "A revision of the English Wealden Flora, III: Czekanowskiales, Ginkgoales & allied Coniferales". Bulletin of the Natural History Museum (Geology Series), 57(1), 29-82.
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