The ancient kingdom of Spidernesti
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"The House of Stars became the House of Spiders".
That's the line from Tanis's secret journal that the heroes managed to
decipher. And the druidess rea...
Monday, August 31, 2009
'“ninja” was an unknown term.'
Maybe to you, Mr. Edwards. But James Bond had teamed-up with ninjas back in '67.
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Roald Dahl wrote a James Bond Film? Wow.
ReplyDeleteThis is like the guy I gamed with back in the day who claimed D&D invented the term "Long Sword"...
ReplyDeleteI was thinking about this one too. It's true that ninja were found in film and literature before this. But I also remember a particular moment in my little fraction of California youth culture in the late seventies when suddenly everyone wanted to be a ninja - in real life and in D&D games - and they hadn't before. I was never sure what caused this.
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In Australia the TV series 'The Samurai' popularised ninjas even earlier.
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I'm pretty sure I first heard of ninjas in The Great Escape: A Source Book of Delights and Pleasures for the Mind and Body (1974). It had a one-page article detailing varieties of martial arts. Later they showed up on my TV in Shogun (1980), but I don't recall if the word "ninja" was used.
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