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| − | '''''Watership Down''''' is a novel by Richard Adams, charting the adventures of a group of [[rabbit]]s as they try to found a new warren. | + | '''''Watership Down''''' is a novel by Richard Adams, first published by Rex Collings Ltd. in November 1972, charting the adventures of a group of [[rabbit]]s as they try to found a new warren. |
Although the rabbit characters of the book are anthropomorphised, they are depicted in a largely realistic manner, possessing the behaviours, motivations, and limited cognition of real rabbits. Adams used R M Lockley's ''The Private Life of the Rabbit'' as a reference for rabbit behaviour. | Although the rabbit characters of the book are anthropomorphised, they are depicted in a largely realistic manner, possessing the behaviours, motivations, and limited cognition of real rabbits. Adams used R M Lockley's ''The Private Life of the Rabbit'' as a reference for rabbit behaviour. | ||
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Watership Down is a novel by Richard Adams, first published by Rex Collings Ltd. in November 1972, charting the adventures of a group of rabbits as they try to found a new warren.
Although the rabbit characters of the book are anthropomorphised, they are depicted in a largely realistic manner, possessing the behaviours, motivations, and limited cognition of real rabbits. Adams used R M Lockley's The Private Life of the Rabbit as a reference for rabbit behaviour.
The rabbits in the novel use an invented language called Lapine, fragments of which are mixed in with the text. At least one word of this language has made it into Furry usage: flayrah, meaning 'great food', is the name of a Furry news website, Flayrah.com.
Some people have extended Adams' fragments of Lapine into a speakable language.
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Synopsis
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After a young rabbit named Fiver forsees an imminent, terrible disaster at Sandleford Warren, he persuades his brother Hazel to leave the warren with a small group of rabbits. The Warren's leadership is their initial opposition, but they must face many more hazards, both natural and man-made, before they reach their goal.
Fandom
There is a modest collection of Watership Down fans, some of which intersect with the Furry fandom.
Multiplayer worlds
Watership Down MUCK, a role-playing MUCK based on Watership Down, has been offline since 2002. Inthlay's MUCK of the same name is also closed.
There are also a number of e-mail role-playing groups; some of them are listed in Yingzhao's Watership Down Page - Links.
Trivia
- The whole novel takes place near the village of Laverstoke, a real-life location in England.
See also
- Watership Down at Wikipedia