regshoe

After the best part of four hundred years and a thousand pages, John Uskglass does indeed return, and it is this: quiet, unobtrusive, introduced without fanfare or the trappings of a climactic moment in the story. He is not named—of course he isn’t named—but simply described as a ‘pale, thin, poetical-looking person’, explicitly looking unlike a gentleman, ‘uncouth’ and compared to ‘a Methodist preacher or a Romantic poet’.

The appearance of the Raven King is one of my favorite things about the novel and one of my least favorite things about the 2015 BBC adaptation.

[edit] I see that this crosspost originally dates from 2017; all I can say is that it just showed up on my reading page now.