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<blockquote data-quote="jester47" data-source="post: 1284786" data-attributes="member: 2238">Actually, the prevalence of towers comes from Arthurian Romance.&nbsp; The place is littered with them.&nbsp; However the towers do not enter Malory.&nbsp; The place to find towers is in Chertian DeTroys, Tristan, and most of the French Medieval Romances.&nbsp; However, ussually these were prisons, or lairs of evil.&nbsp; Rarely (if ever) did they house practitioners of magic.&nbsp; I think Prospero in The Tempest lives in a tower.&nbsp; That might be the source.&nbsp; Also, towers were big in Italy in the late middle ages and were great places to set up observatories and conduct experiments.&nbsp; Also, Leiber had wizards living in towers somtimes (but the two most powerful lived in a walking hut and a cave).Edit: Ok, so prospero does not explicitly live in a tower... as far as I can find in the Tempest.&nbsp; So so far the only one we have putting wizards in towers is Howard, followed by Tolkien...&nbsp; Anyone got anymore information?&nbsp; I would suspect that there might be some fairy tales with wizards in towers... Anyone?&nbsp; Anyone?&nbsp; Beuller?&nbsp; Beuller?Aaron.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jester47, post: 1284786, member: 2238"] Actually, the prevalence of towers comes from Arthurian Romance. The place is littered with them. However the towers do not enter Malory. The place to find towers is in Chertian DeTroys, Tristan, and most of the French Medieval Romances. However, ussually these were prisons, or lairs of evil. Rarely (if ever) did they house practitioners of magic. I think Prospero in The Tempest lives in a tower. That might be the source. Also, towers were big in Italy in the late middle ages and were great places to set up observatories and conduct experiments. Also, Leiber had wizards living in towers somtimes (but the two most powerful lived in a walking hut and a cave). Edit: Ok, so prospero does not explicitly live in a tower... as far as I can find in the Tempest. So so far the only one we have putting wizards in towers is Howard, followed by Tolkien... Anyone got anymore information? I would suspect that there might be some fairy tales with wizards in towers... Anyone? Anyone? Beuller? Beuller? Aaron. [/QUOTE]

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