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</li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Characters" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Characters"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>Characters</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Characters-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Characters subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Characters-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Rabbits" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Rabbits"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.1</span> <span>Rabbits</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Rabbits-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Non-rabbits" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Non-rabbits"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.2</span> <span>Non-rabbits</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Non-rabbits-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Mythical_characters" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Mythical_characters"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.3</span> <span>Mythical characters</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Mythical_characters-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Lapine_language" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Lapine_language"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Lapine language</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Lapine_language-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Themes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Themes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Themes</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Themes-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Themes subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Themes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-The_Hero,_the_Odyssey,_and_the_Aeneid" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#The_Hero,_the_Odyssey,_and_the_Aeneid"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1</span> <span>The Hero, the <i>Odyssey</i>, and the <i>Aeneid</i></span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-The_Hero,_the_Odyssey,_and_the_Aeneid-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Religious_symbolism" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Religious_symbolism"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.2</span> <span>Religious symbolism</span> </div> </a> <ul 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class="vector-toc-link" href="#Criticism_of_gender_roles"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.2</span> <span>Criticism of gender roles</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Criticism_of_gender_roles-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Ownership_controversy" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Ownership_controversy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.3</span> <span>Ownership controversy</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Ownership_controversy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Adaptations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Adaptations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>Adaptations</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Adaptations-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span 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class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Radio"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.7</span> <span>Radio</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Radio-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Audiobooks" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Audiobooks"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.8</span> <span>Audiobooks</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Audiobooks-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Graphic_novel" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Graphic_novel"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.9</span> <span>Graphic novel</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Graphic_novel-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Parodies" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Parodies"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>Parodies</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Parodies-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Explanatory_notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Explanatory_notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>Explanatory notes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Explanatory_notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Citations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Citations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11</span> <span>Citations</span> </div> </a> <ul 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class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D1%8A%D0%BB%D0%BC%D1%8A%D1%82_%D0%A3%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%8A%D1%80%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%BF" title="Хълмът Уотършип – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Хълмът Уотършип" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalek%C3%A1_cesta_za_domovem" title="Daleká cesta za domovem – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Daleká cesta za domovem" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaninbjerget" title="Kaninbjerget – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Kaninbjerget" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de badge-Q17437798 badge-goodarticle mw-list-item" title="good article badge"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unten_am_Fluss" title="Unten am Fluss – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Unten am Fluss" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_colina_de_Watership" title="La colina de Watership – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="La colina de Watership" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%B4%DB%8C%D9%BE_%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86" title="واترشیپ دون – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="واترشیپ دون" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Garennes_de_Watership_Down" title="Les Garennes de Watership Down – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Les Garennes de Watership Down" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watership_Down" title="Watership Down – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Watership Down" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9B%8C%ED%84%B0%EC%8B%AD_%EB%8B%A4%EC%9A%B4" title="워터십 다운 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="워터십 다운" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watership_Down" title="Watership Down – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Watership Down" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_collina_dei_conigli" title="La collina dei conigli – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="La collina dei conigli" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92%D7%91%D7%A2%D7%AA_%D7%95%D7%95%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%A4" title="גבעת ווטרשיפ – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="גבעת ווטרשיפ" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%BF_%D0%B4%D3%A9%D2%A3%D1%81%D3%A9%D1%81%D2%AF" title="Уотершип дөңсөсү – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="Уотершип дөңсөсү" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кыргызча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a 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font-style:italic; padding-bottom:0.2em;">Watership Down <span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Watership+Down&rft.author=%5B%5BRichard+Adams%5D%5D&rft.date=November+1972&rft.pub=%5B%5BRex+Collings%5D%5D&rft.place=United+Kingdom&rft.pages=413+%28first+edition%29+plus+maps&rft_id=info:oclcnum/633254"></span></caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Richard_Adams_WatershipDown.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5e/Richard_Adams_WatershipDown.jpg/220px-Richard_Adams_WatershipDown.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="343" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5e/Richard_Adams_WatershipDown.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="253" data-file-height="394" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">First edition cover</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Author</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Richard_Adams" title="Richard Adams">Richard Adams</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Language</th><td class="infobox-data">English, Lapine</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Genre</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Fantasy_fiction" class="mw-redirect" title="Fantasy fiction">Fantasy</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Publisher</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Rex_Collings" title="Rex Collings">Rex Collings</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Publication date</div></th><td class="infobox-data">November 1972</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Publication place</th><td class="infobox-data">United Kingdom</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Media type</th><td class="infobox-data">Print (hardback, paperback & audiobook)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Pages</th><td class="infobox-data">413 (first edition) plus maps<sup id="cite_ref-worldcat_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-worldcat-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Carnegie_Medal_(literary_award)" title="Carnegie Medal (literary award)">Carnegie Medal (literary award)</a> <p><a href="/wiki/Guardian_Children%27s_Fiction_Prize" title="Guardian Children's Fiction Prize">Guardian Children's Fiction Prize</a> </p> <a href="/wiki/California_Young_Reader_Medal" title="California Young Reader Medal">California Young Reader Medal</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-901720-31-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-901720-31-3">0-901720-31-3</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)"><abbr title="Online Computer Library Center number">OCLC</abbr></a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/633254">633254</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Dewey_Decimal_Classification" title="Dewey Decimal Classification">Dewey Decimal</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data">823/.9/14</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/LCC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="LCC (identifier)"><abbr title="Library of Congress Classification">LC Class</abbr></a></th><td class="infobox-data">PZ10.3.A197 Wat<sup id="cite_ref-LCC1_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LCC1-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-LCC2_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LCC2-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Followed by</th><td class="infobox-data"><i><a href="/wiki/Tales_from_Watership_Down" title="Tales from Watership Down">Tales from Watership Down</a> </i></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>Watership Down</b></i> is an <a href="/wiki/Adventure_novel" class="mw-redirect" title="Adventure novel">adventure novel</a> by English author <a href="/wiki/Richard_Adams" title="Richard Adams">Richard Adams</a>, published by <a href="/wiki/Rex_Collings_Ltd" class="mw-redirect" title="Rex Collings Ltd">Rex Collings Ltd</a> of London in 1972. Set in <a href="/wiki/Hampshire" title="Hampshire">Hampshire</a> in southern England, the story features a small group of <a href="/wiki/Rabbit" title="Rabbit">rabbits</a>. Although they live in their natural wild environment, with <a href="/wiki/Burrow" title="Burrow">burrows</a>, they are <a href="/wiki/Anthropomorphism" title="Anthropomorphism">anthropomorphised</a>, possessing their own culture, <a href="/wiki/Lapine_language" title="Lapine language">language</a>, <a href="/wiki/Proverb" title="Proverb">proverbs</a>, poetry, and <a href="/wiki/Mythology" class="mw-redirect" title="Mythology">mythology</a>. Evoking <a href="/wiki/Epic_poetry" title="Epic poetry">epic</a> themes, the novel follows the rabbits as they escape the destruction of their <a href="/wiki/Burrow" title="Burrow">warren</a> and seek a place to establish a new home (the hill of <a href="/wiki/Watership_Down,_Hampshire" title="Watership Down, Hampshire">Watership Down</a>), encountering perils and temptations along the way. </p><p><i>Watership Down</i> was Richard Adams's <a href="/wiki/Debut_novel" title="Debut novel">debut novel</a>. It was rejected by several publishers before Collings accepted the <a href="/wiki/Manuscript_(publishing)" title="Manuscript (publishing)">manuscript</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the published book then won the annual <a href="/wiki/Carnegie_Medal_(literary_award)" title="Carnegie Medal (literary award)">Carnegie Medal</a> (UK), annual <a href="/wiki/Guardian_Prize" class="mw-redirect" title="Guardian Prize">Guardian Prize</a> (UK), and other book awards. </p><p>The novel was adapted into an <a href="/wiki/Watership_Down_(film)" title="Watership Down (film)">2D animated feature film</a> in 1978 and a 2D animated children's <a href="/wiki/Watership_Down_(1999_TV_series)" title="Watership Down (1999 TV series)">television series</a> from 1999 and 2001.<sup id="cite_ref-wizards_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wizards-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-BBC_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBC-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2018, the novel was adapted again, this time into a <a href="/wiki/Watership_Down_(2018_TV_series)" title="Watership Down (2018 TV series)">3D animated series</a>, which both aired in the UK and was made available on <a href="/wiki/Netflix" title="Netflix">Netflix</a>. </p><p>Adams completed a sequel almost 25 years later, in 1996, <i><a href="/wiki/Tales_from_Watership_Down" title="Tales from Watership Down">Tales from Watership Down</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> constructed as a collection of 19 short stories about El-ahrairah and the rabbits of the Watership Down warren.<sup id="cite_ref-isfdb-tales_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-isfdb-tales-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Origin_and_publication_history">Origin and publication history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Watership_Down&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Origin and publication history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1224211176">.mw-parser-output .quotebox{background-color:#F9F9F9;border:1px solid #aaa;box-sizing:border-box;padding:10px;font-size:88%;max-width:100%}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft{margin:.5em 1.4em .8em 0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright{margin:.5em 0 .8em 1.4em}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.centered{overflow:hidden;position:relative;margin:.5em auto .8em auto}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft span,.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright span{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox>blockquote{margin:0;padding:0;border-left:0;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-title{text-align:center;font-size:110%;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote>:first-child{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote:last-child>:last-child{margin-bottom:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:before{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" “ ";vertical-align:-45%;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:after{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" ” ";line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .left-aligned{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .right-aligned{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .center-aligned{text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quote-title,.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quotebox-quote{display:block}.mw-parser-output .quotebox cite{display:block;font-style:normal}@media screen and (max-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .quotebox{width:100%!important;margin:0 0 .8em!important;float:none!important}}</style><div class="quotebox pullquote floatright" style="width:23em; ;"> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> <p>"To Juliet and Rosamund, remembering the road to <a href="/wiki/Stratford-upon-Avon" title="Stratford-upon-Avon">Stratford-on-Avon</a>" </p> </blockquote> <p style="padding-bottom: 0;"><cite class="left-aligned" style=""> —Dedication, <i>Watership Down</i></cite></p> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1224211176"><div class="quotebox pullquote floatright" style="width:23em; ;"> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> <p>"Master Rabbit I saw" —<a href="/wiki/Walter_de_la_Mare" title="Walter de la Mare">Walter de la Mare</a> </p> </blockquote> <p style="padding-bottom: 0;"><cite class="left-aligned" style=""> —Line quoted in <i>Watership Down</i>;<sup id="cite_ref-Watership_Down_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Watership_Down-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the poem can be seen as a possible source of inspiration.</cite></p> </div> <p>The story began as tales that Richard Adams told his young daughters Juliet and Rosamund during long car journeys. He recounted in 2007 that he "began telling the story of the rabbits<span class="nowrap"> </span>... improvised off the top of [his] head, as [they] were driving along".<sup id="cite_ref-BBC_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBC-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-interview-swaim_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-interview-swaim-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The daughters insisted he write it down—"they were very, very persistent". After some delay he began writing in the evenings and completed it 18 months later.<sup id="cite_ref-interview-swaim_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-interview-swaim-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The book is dedicated to the two girls.<sup id="cite_ref-WD-first-ed_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WD-first-ed-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Adams's descriptions of wild rabbit behaviour were based on <i>The Private Life of the Rabbit</i> (1964), by British naturalist <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Lockley" title="Ronald Lockley">Ronald Lockley</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-economist-lockley_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-economist-lockley-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The two later became friends, embarking on an <a href="/wiki/Antarctic" title="Antarctic">Antarctic</a> tour that became the subject of a co-authored book, <i>Voyage Through the Antarctic</i> (A. Lane, 1982).<sup id="cite_ref-economist-lockley_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-economist-lockley-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In his autobiography, <i>The Day Gone By</i>, Adams wrote that he based <i>Watership Down</i> and the stories in it on his experiences during <a href="/wiki/Operation_Market_Garden" title="Operation Market Garden">Operation Market Garden</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Arnhem" title="Battle of Arnhem">Battle of Arnhem</a>, in 1944. The character of Hazel, the leader of the group of rabbits, was modelled on Adams's commanding officer, Major John Gifford. He gave the warrior Bigwig the personality of Captain Desmond Kavanagh, who is buried at the <a href="/wiki/Arnhem_Oosterbeek_War_Cemetery" title="Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery">Airborne Cemetery</a> in <a href="/wiki/Oosterbeek" title="Oosterbeek">Oosterbeek</a>, The Netherlands.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>Watership Down</i> was rejected seven times before it was accepted by Rex Collings.<sup id="cite_ref-vine_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vine-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The one-man London publisher Collings wrote to an associate, "I've just taken on a novel about rabbits, one of them with extra-sensory perception. Do you think I'm mad?" The associate did call it "a mad risk," in her obituary of Collings, to accept "a book as bizarre by an unknown writer which had been turned down by the major London publishers; but," she continued, "it was also dazzlingly brave and intuitive."<sup id="cite_ref-quigly_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-quigly-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Collings had little capital and could not pay an advance but "he got a review copy onto every desk in London that mattered."<sup id="cite_ref-interview-swaim_12-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-interview-swaim-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Adams wrote that it was Collings who gave <i>Watership Down</i> its title.<sup id="cite_ref-Intro_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Intro-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There was a second edition in 1973. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Macmillan_Publishers_(United_States)" class="mw-redirect" title="Macmillan Publishers (United States)">Macmillan USA</a>, then a media giant, published the first U.S. edition in 1974 and a <a href="/wiki/Dutch_language" title="Dutch language">Dutch</a> edition was also published that year by <a href="/wiki/Het_Spectrum" class="mw-redirect" title="Het Spectrum">Het Spectrum</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-LCC2_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LCC2-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-isfdb_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-isfdb-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Plot_summary">Plot summary</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Watership_Down&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Plot summary"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Part_1:_The_Journey">Part 1: The Journey</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Watership_Down&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Part 1: The Journey"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Watership_Down.gif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Watership_Down.gif/220px-Watership_Down.gif" decoding="async" width="220" height="134" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Watership_Down.gif/330px-Watership_Down.gif 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Watership_Down.gif/440px-Watership_Down.gif 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="305" /></a><figcaption>The real Watership Down, near the <a href="/wiki/Hampshire" title="Hampshire">Hampshire</a> village of <a href="/wiki/Kingsclere" title="Kingsclere">Kingsclere</a>, in 1975</figcaption></figure> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/Sandleford" title="Sandleford">Sandleford</a> <a href="/wiki/Warren_(burrow)" title="Warren (burrow)">warren</a>, Fiver, a <a href="/wiki/Runt" title="Runt">runty</a> young rabbit who is a <a href="/wiki/Clairvoyance" title="Clairvoyance">seer</a>, receives a frightening vision of his warren's imminent destruction.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He and his brother Hazel fail to convince the Threarah, their Chief Rabbit, of the need to evacuate; they then try to convince the other rabbits, but only succeed in gaining nine followers, all bucks (males) and no does (females). Captain Holly of the Sandleford Owsla, the warren's military <a href="/wiki/Caste" title="Caste">caste</a>, accuses the group of fomenting dissension against the Threarah. He tries to stop them from leaving, but is driven off. </p><p>Once out in the world, the traveling group of rabbits finds itself following the leadership of Hazel, who had been considered an unimportant member of the warren. The group travels far through dangerous territory. Bigwig and Silver, both former Owsla and the strongest rabbits among them, protect the others, helped by Hazel's good judgement and the ingenuity of the clever rabbit Blackberry. Along the way, they cross the <a href="/wiki/River_Enborne" title="River Enborne">River Enborne</a>, and evade a badger, a dog, a crow, and a car. Hazel and Bigwig also stop three rabbits from attempting to return to the Sandleford warren. </p><p>A rabbit named Cowslip invites Hazel's group to join his warren, where a farmer leaves food for the rabbits and shoots all the predators. Fiver senses death and deception in the new warren, but the rest of Hazel's group, enjoying the peace and good food, decide to ignore Fiver's warnings and the strange and evasive behaviour of the new rabbits. Later, Bigwig is caught in a <a href="/wiki/Snare_trap" class="mw-redirect" title="Snare trap">snare</a>, only surviving the ordeal thanks to Blackberry and Hazel's quick thinking. Fiver deduces the truth, and admonishes the rest in a wild lecture; the farmer feeds and protects the rabbits so he can harvest them for meat and skins, and Cowslip's rabbits invited the guests into their warren to increase their own odds of survival. The Sandleford rabbits, badly shaken, continue on their journey. They are joined by Strawberry, a buck who deserts Cowslip's warren. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Part_2:_On_Watership_Down">Part 2: On Watership Down</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Watership_Down&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Part 2: On Watership Down"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Watership_Down_Nuthanger_Farm.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Watership_Down_Nuthanger_Farm.jpg/220px-Watership_Down_Nuthanger_Farm.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Watership_Down_Nuthanger_Farm.jpg/330px-Watership_Down_Nuthanger_Farm.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Watership_Down_Nuthanger_Farm.jpg/440px-Watership_Down_Nuthanger_Farm.jpg 2x" data-file-width="873" data-file-height="582" /></a><figcaption>Nuthanger Farm, Hampshire, England, in 2004</figcaption></figure> <p>Fiver's visions instruct the rabbits to seek a home atop the <a href="/wiki/Downland" title="Downland">hills</a>. The group eventually finds and settles in a <a href="/wiki/Beech_tree" class="mw-redirect" title="Beech tree">beech</a> <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hanger#Noun" class="extiw" title="wikt:hanger">hanger</a> (a wooded hill) on Watership Down. While digging the new warren, they are joined by Captain Holly and his friend Bluebell. Holly is severely wounded, and both rabbits are ill from exhaustion, having escaped both the violent destruction of the Sandleford Warren by humans and an attack by Cowslip's rabbits along the way. Holly's ordeal has left him a changed rabbit, and, after telling the others that Fiver's terrible vision has come true, he offers to join Hazel's band in whatever way they will have him. </p><p>Although Watership Down is a peaceful habitat, Hazel realizes that, with all buck rabbits and no does, the warren will soon die out. With the help of their useful new friend, a <a href="/wiki/Black-headed_gull" title="Black-headed gull">black-headed gull</a> named Kehaar, they discover a nearby warren called Efrafa, which is overcrowded. At Hazel's request, Holly leads a small embassy to Efrafa to present their request for does. </p><p>Hazel and Pipkin (the smallest rabbit) decide to scout out the nearby Nuthanger Farm, where they find a rabbit hutch. Despite their uncertainty about living wild, the four hutch rabbits are willing to come to Watership. Two nights later, Hazel leads a raid on the farm, which frees two does and a buck from the hutch. Hazel is wounded in the leg by the farmer's <a href="/wiki/Shotgun" title="Shotgun">shotgun</a> and presumed dead; Fiver's visions prompt him and Blackberry to return and rescue Hazel. When the embassy to Efrafa returns soon after, Hazel and his rabbits learn that Efrafa is a <a href="/wiki/Police_state" title="Police state">police state</a> run by the ferocious <a href="/wiki/Despotism" title="Despotism">despot</a> General Woundwort, who refuses to allow anyone to leave his warren. Holly and his three companions have managed to escape with little more than their lives. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Part_3:_Efrafa">Part 3: Efrafa</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Watership_Down&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Part 3: Efrafa"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>While they were imprisoned in Efrafa, Holly's group had met an Efrafan doe named Hyzenthlay, who wishes to leave the warren and can recruit other does to join in the escape. Hazel and Blackberry devise a plan to rescue Hyzenthlay's group and bring them to Watership Down. </p><p>Bigwig infiltrates Efrafa in the guise of a 'hlessi' (a wandering rabbit unattached to any warren). He is recruited into the Efrafan Owsla by Woundwort, while Hazel and several other Watership rabbits hide across the nearby <a href="/wiki/River_Test" title="River Test">River Test</a>. With help from Kehaar, Bigwig manages to free Hyzenthlay and nine other does, as well as a condemned Efrafan prisoner named Blackavar. Woundwort and his officers pursue them, but the Watership rabbits and the escapees use a <a href="/wiki/Punt_(boat)" title="Punt (boat)">punt</a> to float away down the Test and escape. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Part_4:_Hazel-rah">Part 4: Hazel-rah</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Watership_Down&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Part 4: Hazel-rah"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Downriver, the punt strikes a bridge, killing one doe. Once the rabbits are back on shore, they begin the long journey home, losing one more doe to a fox along the way. As they near Watership, they come across Captain Campion and his Efrafan patrol, who have been tracking them. Blackavar advises Hazel that the patrol must be killed to prevent them from reporting to Woundwort, but Hazel spares them and sends them off. </p><p>A few weeks later, the Owsla of Efrafa, led by Woundwort, unexpectedly arrives to destroy the warren at Watership Down and take back the escapees. Fiver experiences another vision, which gives Hazel the solution to the problem. While Bigwig fights and injures Woundwort in a narrow tunnel, preventing the rest of the Efrafans from getting any further into the burrows, Hazel, Dandelion and Blackberry return to Nuthanger Farm. They release Bob, the farmer's <a href="/wiki/Labrador_dog" class="mw-redirect" title="Labrador dog">Labrador</a>, and lure him back to Watership Down. Bob attacks the Efrafans, who flee in terror, leaving Woundwort to stubbornly stand his ground unobserved. Following the fight, Bob returns to Nuthanger Farm with a few wounds, but there is no sign of Woundwort's body. Groundsel, one of the Efrafan officers, fervently believes the General must have survived. </p><p>After releasing the dog, Hazel is attacked by Tab, one of the farmhouse <a href="/wiki/Cats" class="mw-redirect" title="Cats">cats</a>. He is saved by young Lucy, the former owner of the escaped hutch rabbits, who shows him to the local doctor before releasing him. Upon returning to Watership, Hazel effects a lasting peace and friendship between the remaining Efrafans and the Watership rabbits. Some time later, Hazel and Campion, the intelligent new chief of Efrafa, send rabbits to start a new warren at Caesar's Belt, to relieve the effects of overcrowding at both their warrens. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Epilogue">Epilogue</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Watership_Down&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Epilogue"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As time goes on, the three warrens on the downs prosper under Hazel, Campion and Groundsel (their respective chiefs). General Woundwort is never seen or heard from again; he becomes a legend among the rabbits, and a sort of <a href="/wiki/Bogeyman" title="Bogeyman">bogeyman</a> to frighten rabbit kits. Kehaar rejoins his colony, but continues to visit the rabbits every winter. He refuses to search for Woundwort, showing that even he still fears him. </p><p>Years later, on a cold March morning, an elderly Hazel is visited by El-ahrairah, the legendary rabbit folk hero and spiritual Prince of the Rabbits. He invites Hazel to join his Owsla, reassuring Hazel of Watership's future success and prosperity. Leaving his friends and his physical body behind, Hazel departs Watership Down with El-ahrairah. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Characters">Characters</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Watership_Down&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Characters"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Rabbits">Rabbits</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Watership_Down&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Rabbits"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dt>Sandleford warren</dt></dl> <ul><li><b>Hazel/Hazel-rah:</b> The novel's <a href="/wiki/Protagonist" title="Protagonist">protagonist</a>. Though Hazel is not particularly large or powerful, he is loyal, brave, affectionate and a quick thinker. He sees the good in each individual, and what they bring to the table; in so doing, he makes sure no one gets left behind, thus earning the respect and loyalty of his warren. He becomes their Chief Rabbit in the process, with his name accordingly expanded to <i>Hazel-rah</i> ("Chief Hazel" or "Prince Hazel" in <a href="/wiki/Lapine_language" title="Lapine language">Lapine</a>). He often relies on Fiver's advice, and he trusts his brother's instincts most of the time.</li> <li><b>Fiver:</b> Hazel's younger brother, a <a href="/wiki/Runt" title="Runt">runt</a> rabbit whose Lapine name means "Little One of Many" (Rabbits have a single word, "hrair" - sometimes translated as "thousand" - for all numbers greater than four. Fiver's name in Lapine, <i>Hrairoo</i>, indicates that he is the smallest of a litter of five or more rabbits.)<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As a seer, he has visions and strong instincts. He is shy, kind, and intelligent, and though he does not directly act as a leader, the others listen to and follow his advice. Vilthuril becomes his mate.</li> <li><b>Bigwig:</b> An ex-Owsla officer, and the largest, strongest, and bravest rabbit of the group. His name in Lapine is <i>Thlayli</i>, which literally means "Fur-head" and refers to the shock of fur on the back of his head. Though he is initially harsh and cynical, he is naturally compassioniate and eventually learns to be less quick-tempered. He is also shown to be cunning in his own way when he rescues the does from Efrafa, and later devises a plan to defeat the larger and stronger General Woundwort. This final confrontation leaves him severely wounded, but he survives and becomes the leader of Hazel's Owsla.</li> <li><b>Blackberry:</b> A clever buck rabbit with black-tipped ears. He is often capable of understanding concepts the other rabbits find incomprehensible. He realizes, for instance, that wood floats, and the rabbits use this tactic twice to travel on water. He also works out how to dismantle the snare that almost kills Bigwig, saving him. He is one of Hazel's most trusted advisors, and he and Kehaar devise the plan to rescue does from Efrafa.</li> <li><b>Dandelion:</b> Described as a "dashing" buck rabbit, notable for his storytelling ability and speed. He is the first to recognize Watership Down as their best new home, and is instrumental in both raids on Nuthanger farm.</li> <li><b>Buckthorn:</b> A strong half-grown buck who was expected to be part of the Sandleford Owsla once he reached maturity. He joins Bigwig and Silver as a fighter for the group.</li> <li><b>Hawkbit:</b> Described in the book as a "rather slow, stupid rabbit", but is accepted by Hazel regardless.</li> <li><b>Speedwell and Acorn</b>: Pair of rank-and-file rabbits who are friends of Hawkbit. Like him, they are initially distrustful of Hazel, but soon become valuable sentries and burrow diggers.</li> <li><b>Silver:</b> The sturdy and level-headed nephew of Sandleford's Chief Rabbit. At Sandleford, he is teased for his pale grey fur (his namesake) and accused of getting his position in the Owsla through <a href="/wiki/Nepotism" title="Nepotism">nepotism</a>, prompting him to join the fugitives. He, Bigwig and Buckthorn frequently defend the other rabbits along their journey.</li> <li><b>Pipkin:</b> A small and initially timid buck rabbit. Hazel refuses to leave him behind when he is wounded, and Pipkin grows fiercely loyal to Hazel. He serves as a comforter to Holly, and becomes very brave, offering to go into Efrafa himself when Bigwig is late in returning. He also is the first to jump into the River Test, when Hazel orders the rabbits to do so. His name is <i>Hlao-roo</i> ("Little Dimple in the Grass") in Lapine.</li> <li><b>Holly:</b> Former captain of the Sandleford Warren Owsla, escapes with Bluebell when his warren is destroyed by men. He is near death when he finds the warren at Watership Down, but is nursed back to health and welcomed by the fugitives.</li> <li><b>Bluebell:</b> Buck rabbit who escapes with Holly during the destruction of Sandleford. He tells jokes (often in rhyme) to cope, and to help himself and Holly recover from the mental strain of seeing the Sandleford warren destroyed and Pimpernel killed by Cowslip's rabbits. He, like Dandelion, is also a storyteller.</li> <li><b>Pimpernel:</b> A Sandleford rabbit, who helps Bluebell to escape the poisoning of the Sandleford warren but becomes very ill and weak in the process. He travels towards Watership with Holly and Bluebell, but is murdered by Cowslip's rabbits.</li> <li><b>Threarah</b> - Usually called "THE Threarah" because his name means "Lord/Prince <a href="/wiki/Rowan" title="Rowan">Rowan</a> Tree" in Lapine, and there is only one rowan near the warren. He is Silver's uncle, and the cool and detached leader of the Sandleford Warren. He believes in the gift of foresight, but dismisses Fiver's fears, believing rabbits can best weather any dangers by sitting tight. He is presumed killed when the men poison his warren.</li></ul> <dl><dt>Cowslip's warren</dt></dl> <ul><li><b>Cowslip</b>: While not chief rabbit of his warren, he is the first to meet Hazel and the others, and tricks them into staying in the Warren of the Snares, which is why they refer to it as "Cowslip's Warren" afterwards. He and the others refuse to answer any questions or discuss the snares. After Fiver exposes and ruins their blissful denial and Strawberry defects to Fiver's side, Cowslip leads some other rabbits to attack Holly's group as it passes through their territory.</li> <li><b>Strawberry:</b> A large, sleek buck from Cowslip's warren who leaves with the Watership Down rabbits after his doe, <i>Nildro-hain</i> ("Blackbird's Song", in Lapine), is killed by a snare.</li></ul> <dl><dt>Nuthanger Farm</dt></dl> <ul><li><b>Haystack and Clover:</b> Two of the hutch does, who escape in order to live with the wild rabbits. Clover's mate, Laurel, does not escape with her and allows himself to be taken back to the hutch by the farmer. Later, Holly becomes Clover's new mate.</li> <li><b>Boxwood</b>: A hutch buck who escapes in order to live with the wild rabbits. He is taken under Strawberry's wing, as he initially does not know how to survive in the wild. He is Haystack's mate.</li></ul> <dl><dt>Efrafa</dt></dl> <ul><li><b>General Woundwort:</b> The main <a href="/wiki/Antagonist" title="Antagonist">antagonist</a> of the novel. A fearless, cunning and brutally efficient rabbit who was orphaned at a young age and raised by humans, Woundwort escaped, founded the Efrafa warren, and is its tyrannical chief. Though larger and stronger than Bigwig, he lacks mercy and kindness. He even leads an attack to destroy the Watership warren as an act of revenge against Bigwig's stealing does from Efrafa, an attack defeated by Hazel's ingenuity and Bigwig's bravery. After fighting the Nuthanger farm dog, he disappears completely, and many rabbits remain unsure if he still lives or not.</li> <li><b>Captain Campion:</b> Woundwort's most trusted subordinate, Campion is a loyal, brave and clever officer. Despite being on opposite sides, Bigwig and Hazel like Campion and twice refuse to kill him when they have him at their mercy. After Woundwort disappears, Campion becomes the Chief Rabbit of Efrafa and reforms it, making peace with the Watership rabbits.</li> <li><b>Vervain:</b> The sadistic and callous head of the Owslafa (Council Police) in Efrafa, said to be one of the most hated rabbits in the warren. He is ordered to kill Fiver during the Watership attack, but Fiver calmly prophesies his death, and he flees in terror. He disappears during the retreat back to Efrafa, presumably killed by predators.</li> <li><b>Groundsel</b>: A calm, sensible member of Woundwort's Owsla, he rescues an Efrafan patrol when their Captain is killed by a fox. He accompanies Woundwort to Watership with the rest of the Owsla, though he is wisely hesitant to attack Hazel's rabbits after their earlier displays of cleverness. He and four others surrender to Fiver after the dog incident, and he is accepted into Watership as a friend, eventually becoming the Chief Rabbit at the new warren in Caesar's Belt.</li> <li><b>Hyzenthlay:</b> A doe who leads other Efrafan does to oppose Woundwort and his council, as they are unable to reproduce because of overcrowding. Woundwort orders her group to be broken up and scattered across the warren; however, she and several friends escape Efrafa with Bigwig. Like Fiver, she has visions, but has trouble interpreting them. Her name means literally "shine-dew-fur", or "fur shining like dew".</li> <li><b>Thethuthinnang</b> - In Lapine, "Movement of Leaves". A very sturdy, sensible doe and Hyzenthlay's friend and lieutenant in organizing the rebellion among the Efrafan does.</li> <li><b>Vilthuril:</b> An Efrafan doe - her name's translation is never given. She escapes Efrafa with Bigwig, Hyzenthlay and the other does. She becomes Fiver's mate, and is said to be the only one to understand him as well as Hazel. One of their kittens, Threar, becomes a seer like his father.</li> <li><b>Blackavar:</b> A rabbit with dark fur who tries to escape from Efrafa but is apprehended, mutilated, and put on display to discourage further escape attempts. When he is liberated by Bigwig, he quickly proves himself an expert tracker and ranger, and also shows himself to be an effective fighter when the Efrafan rabbits attack the warren.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Non-rabbits">Non-rabbits</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Watership_Down&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Non-rabbits"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Chroicocephalus_ridibundus_(summer).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Chroicocephalus_ridibundus_%28summer%29.jpg/220px-Chroicocephalus_ridibundus_%28summer%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Chroicocephalus_ridibundus_%28summer%29.jpg/330px-Chroicocephalus_ridibundus_%28summer%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Chroicocephalus_ridibundus_%28summer%29.jpg/440px-Chroicocephalus_ridibundus_%28summer%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2865" data-file-height="2149" /></a><figcaption>Kehaar is a <a href="/wiki/Black-headed_gull" title="Black-headed gull">black-headed gull</a> (<i>Chroicocephalus ridibundus</i>; pictured with summer plumage).</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b>Kehaar:</b> A <a href="/wiki/Black-headed_gull" title="Black-headed gull">black-headed gull</a> who is forced, by an injured wing, to take refuge on Watership Down, and befriends the rabbits when they help him. He is characterized by his frequent impatience, guttural accent and unusual phrasing. After discovering the Efrafan warren and helping the rabbits, he re-joins his colony, but visits them often. According to Adams, Kehaar was based on a fighter from the <a href="/wiki/Norwegian_Resistance" class="mw-redirect" title="Norwegian Resistance">Norwegian Resistance</a> in <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Intro_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Intro-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b>The Mouse:</b> Never named, the mouse is a resident of Watership Down before the arrival of the rabbits. While rabbits usually despise smaller mammals like rodents and shrews, and view them as untrustworthy, Hazel kindly saves the mouse from a <a href="/wiki/Common_kestrel" title="Common kestrel">kestrel</a>. This action allies the mice and rabbits on Watership Down, and the same mouse later warns them of General Woundwort's intended surprise attack, thus saving many lives.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Mythical_characters">Mythical characters</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Watership_Down&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Mythical characters"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b>Frith:</b> The primary deity in rabbit folklore, similar to the <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a> of <a href="/wiki/Abrahamic_religions" title="Abrahamic religions">Abraham</a>, said to have created the world. While forced to create <i>elil</i> (predators) because of the rabbits' refusal to stop <a href="/wiki/Overpopulation" title="Overpopulation">overpopulating</a> the Earth, Frith promised that rabbits would never be allowed to go extinct. In Lapine, the word <i>Frith</i> means "the sun/sunrise".</li> <li><b>El-ahrairah:</b> A rabbit <a href="/wiki/Trickster" title="Trickster">trickster</a> <a href="/wiki/Culture_hero" title="Culture hero">culture hero</a>, who is the protagonist of nearly all of the rabbits' stories. He represents what every rabbit wants to be: Smart, devious, tricky, and devoted to the well-being of his warren. In Lapine, his name is a contraction of the phrase <i>Elil-hrair-rah</i>, which means "prince with a thousand enemies". His stories of cleverness (and excessive hubris) are similar to <a href="/wiki/Br%27er_Rabbit" title="Br'er Rabbit">Br'er Rabbit</a> and <a href="/wiki/Anansi" title="Anansi">Anansi</a>.</li> <li><b>Prince Rainbow:</b> A lesser deity in rabbit folklore, tasked by Frith to organize the world. He often abuses his power to try to harm or rein in El-ahrairah and the rabbits, but is always outsmarted.</li> <li><b>Rabscuttle:</b> Another mythical folk hero, Rabscuttle is El-ahrairah's second-in-command and Owsla Captain. He participates in many of El-ahrairah's capers. He is considered to be almost as clever as his chief. His name may be a reference to a rabbit's "scut", or tail.</li> <li><b>Black Rabbit of Inlé:</b> Known as <i>Inlé-rah</i> ("Prince/Chief of the Moon" or "Prince/Chief of the Dead") to his ghostly Owsla, he is a sombre <a href="/wiki/Ghost" title="Ghost">phantom</a> servant of the god Frith who appears in rabbit <a href="/wiki/Folklore" title="Folklore">folklore</a> as a kind of analogue to the <a href="/wiki/Personifications_of_death" title="Personifications of death">grim reaper</a>. His duty is to ensure all rabbits die at their predestined time, and he avenges any rabbit killed without his consent. <i>Inlé</i> is the Lapine term for the moon/moonrise, as well as the word for the Land of the Dead.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Lapine_language">Lapine language</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Watership_Down&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Lapine language"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Lapine_language" title="Lapine language">Lapine language</a></div> <p>"Lapine" is a <a href="/wiki/Fictional_language" title="Fictional language">fictional language</a> created by author <a href="/wiki/Richard_Adams" title="Richard Adams">Richard Adams</a> for the novel, where it is spoken by the rabbit characters. The language was again used in Adams's 1996 sequel, <i><a href="/wiki/Tales_from_Watership_Down" title="Tales from Watership Down">Tales from Watership Down</a></i>, and has appeared in both the <a href="/wiki/Watership_Down_(film)" title="Watership Down (film)">film</a> and <a href="/wiki/Watership_Down_(1999_TV_series)" title="Watership Down (1999 TV series)">television adaptations</a>. The language fragments in the books consist of a few dozen distinct words, used mainly for the naming of rabbits, their mythological characters, and objects in their world. The name "Lapine" comes from the French word for rabbit.<sup id="cite_ref-henning_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-henning-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-rogers_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rogers-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Themes">Themes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Watership_Down&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Themes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Watership Down</i> has been described as an <a href="/wiki/Allegory" title="Allegory">allegory</a>, with the labours of Hazel, Fiver, Bigwig, and Silver "mirror[ing] the timeless struggles between tyranny and freedom, reason and blind emotion, and the individual and the corporate state."<sup id="cite_ref-masterplots_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-masterplots-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Adams draws on <a href="/wiki/Classical_antiquity" title="Classical antiquity">classical</a> heroic and <a href="/wiki/Quest" title="Quest">quest</a> themes from <a href="/wiki/Homer" title="Homer">Homer</a> and <a href="/wiki/Virgil" title="Virgil">Virgil</a>, creating a story with <a href="/wiki/Epic_poetry" title="Epic poetry">epic</a> motifs.<sup id="cite_ref-CR-Bridgman_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CR-Bridgman-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Hero,_the_Odyssey,_and_the_Aeneid"><span id="The_Hero.2C_the_Odyssey.2C_and_the_Aeneid"></span>The Hero, the <i>Odyssey</i>, and the <i>Aeneid</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Watership_Down&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: The Hero, the Odyssey, and the Aeneid"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The book explores the themes of exile, survival, heroism, leadership, political responsibility, and the "making of a hero and a community".<sup id="cite_ref-newsweek-prescott_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-newsweek-prescott-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Joan Bridgman's analysis of Adams's works in <i><a href="/wiki/Contemporary_Review" class="mw-redirect" title="Contemporary Review">The Contemporary Review</a></i> identifies the community and hero motifs: "[T]he hero's journey into a realm of terrors to bring back some boon to save himself and his people" is a powerful element in Adams's tale. This theme derives from the author's exposure to the works of <a href="/wiki/Mythologist" class="mw-redirect" title="Mythologist">mythologist</a> <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Campbell" title="Joseph Campbell">Joseph Campbell</a>, especially his study of <a href="/wiki/Comparative_mythology" title="Comparative mythology">comparative mythology</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Hero_with_a_Thousand_Faces" title="The Hero with a Thousand Faces">The Hero with a Thousand Faces</a></i> (1949), and in particular, Campbell's "<a href="/wiki/Monomyth" class="mw-redirect" title="Monomyth">monomyth</a>" theory, also based on <a href="/wiki/Carl_Jung" title="Carl Jung">Carl Jung</a>'s view of the unconscious mind, that "all the stories in the world are really one story."<sup id="cite_ref-CR-Bridgman_30-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CR-Bridgman-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The concept of the hero has invited comparisons between <i>Watership Down's</i> characters and those in <a href="/wiki/Homer" title="Homer">Homer</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Odyssey" title="Odyssey">Odyssey</a></i> and <a href="/wiki/Virgil" title="Virgil">Virgil</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Aeneid" title="Aeneid">Aeneid</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-masterplots_29-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-masterplots-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hazel's courage, Bigwig's strength, Blackberry's ingenuity and craftiness, and Dandelion's and Bluebell's poetry and storytelling all have parallels in the <a href="/wiki/Epic_poetry" title="Epic poetry">epic poem</a> <i>Odyssey</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-rothen_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rothen-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Kenneth Kitchell declared, "Hazel stands in the tradition of <a href="/wiki/Odysseus" title="Odysseus">Odysseus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Aeneas" title="Aeneas">Aeneas</a>, and others".<sup id="cite_ref-kitchell_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kitchell-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien" title="J. R. R. Tolkien">Tolkien</a> scholar John Rateliff calls Adams's novel an <i>Aeneid</i> "what-if" book: what if the <a href="/wiki/Clairvoyance" title="Clairvoyance">seer</a> <a href="/wiki/Cassandra" title="Cassandra">Cassandra</a> (Fiver) had been believed and she and a company had fled <a href="/wiki/Troy" title="Troy">Troy</a> (Sandleford Warren) before its destruction? What if Hazel and his companions, like Odysseus, encounter a seductive home at Cowslip's Warren (Land of the <a href="/wiki/Lotophagi" class="mw-redirect" title="Lotophagi">Lotus Eaters</a>)? Rateliff goes on to compare the rabbits' battle with Woundwort's Efrafans to Aeneas's fight with <a href="/wiki/Turnus" title="Turnus">Turnus</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Latins_(Italic_tribe)" title="Latins (Italic tribe)">Latins</a>. "By basing his story on one of the most popular books of the <a href="/wiki/Middle_Ages" title="Middle Ages">Middle Ages</a> and <a href="/wiki/Renaissance" title="Renaissance">Renaissance</a>, Adams taps into a very old myth: the flight from disaster, the heroic refugee in search of a new home, a story that was already over a thousand years old when Virgil told it in 19 BC."<sup id="cite_ref-wizards_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wizards-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Religious_symbolism">Religious symbolism</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Watership_Down&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Religious symbolism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>When asked in a 2007 <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio" title="BBC Radio">BBC Radio</a> interview about the religious symbolism in the novel, Adams said the story was "nothing like that at all". He said the rabbits in Watership Down did not worship; however, "they believed passionately in El-ahrairah." Adams explained that he meant the book to be "only a made-up story<span class="nowrap"> </span>... in no sense an allegory or parable or any kind of political myth. I simply wrote down a story I told to my little girls."<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Instead, he explained, the "let-in" religious stories of El-ahrairah were meant more as legendary tales, similar to a rabbit <a href="/wiki/Robin_Hood" title="Robin Hood">Robin Hood</a>, and these stories were interspersed throughout the book as humorous interjections to the often "grim" tales of the "real story".<sup id="cite_ref-bbc-radio_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc-radio-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reception">Reception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Watership_Down&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i><a href="/wiki/The_Economist" title="The Economist">The Economist</a></i> heralded the book's publication, saying "If there is no place for <i>Watership Down</i> in children's bookshops, then children's literature is dead."<sup id="cite_ref-economist_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-economist-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Peter_S._Prescott" title="Peter S. Prescott">Peter Prescott</a>, senior book reviewer at <i><a href="/wiki/Newsweek" title="Newsweek">Newsweek</a></i>, gave the novel a glowing review: "Adams handles his suspenseful narrative more dextrously than most authors who claim to write adventure novels, but his true achievement lies in the consistent, comprehensible and altogether enchanting civilisation that he has created."<sup id="cite_ref-newsweek-prescott_31-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-newsweek-prescott-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Kathleen J. Rothen and Beverly Langston identified the work as one that "subtly speaks to a child", with "engaging characters and fast-paced action [that] make it readable."<sup id="cite_ref-rothen_32-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rothen-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This echoed <a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Tucker" title="Nicholas Tucker">Nicholas Tucker</a>'s praise for the story's suspense in the <i><a href="/wiki/New_Statesman" title="New Statesman">New Statesman</a></i>: "Adams<span class="nowrap"> </span>... has bravely and successfully resurrected the big <a href="/wiki/Picaresque" class="mw-redirect" title="Picaresque">picaresque</a> adventure story, with moments of such tension that the helplessly involved reader finds himself checking whether things are going to work out all right on the next page before daring to finish the preceding one."<sup id="cite_ref-newstatesman_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-newstatesman-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/D._Keith_Mano" title="D. Keith Mano">D. Keith Mano</a>, a science fiction writer and conservative social commentator writing in the <i><a href="/wiki/National_Review" title="National Review">National Review</a></i>, declared that the novel was "pleasant enough, but it has about the same intellectual firepower as Dumbo." He pilloried it further: "<i>Watership Down</i> is an adventure story, no more than that: rather a swashbuckling crude one to boot. There are virtuous rabbits and bad rabbits: if that's allegory, <i><a href="/wiki/Bonanza" title="Bonanza">Bonanza</a></i> is an allegory."<sup id="cite_ref-mano_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mano-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/John_Rowe_Townsend" title="John Rowe Townsend">John Rowe Townsend</a> notes that the book quickly achieved such a high popularity despite the fact that it "came out at a high price and in an unattractive jacket from a publisher who had hardly been heard of."<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Fred Inglis, in his book <i>The Promise of Happiness: Value and meaning in children's fiction</i>, praises the author's use of prose to express the strangeness of ordinary human inventions from the rabbits' perspective.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>Watership Down'</i>s universal motifs of liberation and self-determination have been identified with by readers from a diversity of backgrounds; the author <a href="/wiki/Rachel_Kadish" title="Rachel Kadish">Rachel Kadish</a>, reflecting on her own superimposition of the founding of Israel onto <i>Watership Down</i>, has remarked "Turns out plenty of other people have seen their histories in that book<span class="nowrap"> </span>... some people see it as an allegory for struggles against the Cold War, fascism, extremism<span class="nowrap"> </span>... a protest against materialism, against the corporate state. <i>Watership Down</i> can be Ireland after the famine, Rwanda after the massacres." Kadish has praised both the fantasy genre and <i>Watership Down</i> for its "motifs [that] hit home in every culture<span class="nowrap"> </span>... all passersby are welcome to bring their own subplots and plug into the archetype."<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Awards">Awards</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Watership_Down&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Awards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Adams won the 1972 <a href="/wiki/Carnegie_Medal_(literary_award)" title="Carnegie Medal (literary award)">Carnegie Medal</a> from the <a href="/wiki/CILIP" class="mw-redirect" title="CILIP">Library Association</a>, recognising the year's best children's book by a <a href="/wiki/British_subject" title="British subject">British subject</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-medal1972_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-medal1972-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also won the annual <a href="/wiki/Guardian_Children%27s_Fiction_Prize" title="Guardian Children's Fiction Prize">Guardian Children's Fiction Prize</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a similar award that authors may not win twice.<sup id="cite_ref-relaunch_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-relaunch-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-GCFP_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GCFP-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>c<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1977 California schoolchildren selected it for the inaugural <a href="/wiki/California_Young_Reader_Medal" title="California Young Reader Medal">California Young Reader Medal</a> in the Young Adult category, which annually honours one book from the last four years.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <a href="/wiki/The_Big_Read" title="The Big Read">The Big Read</a>, a 2003 survey of the British public, it was voted the forty-second greatest book of all time.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Criticism_of_gender_roles">Criticism of gender roles</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Watership_Down&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Criticism of gender roles"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The 1993 Puffin Modern Classics edition of the novel contains an <a href="/wiki/Afterword" title="Afterword">afterword</a> by <a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Tucker" title="Nicholas Tucker">Nicholas Tucker</a>, who wrote that stories such as <i>Watership Down</i> "now fit rather uneasily into the modern world of consideration of both sexes". He contrasted Hazel's sensitivity to Fiver with the "far more mechanical" attitude of the bucks towards the does portrayed as "little more than passive baby-factories".<sup id="cite_ref-pmc-tucker-afterword_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pmc-tucker-afterword-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In a 1974 <i>New York Times Book Review</i> essay "Male Chauvinist Rabbits", Selma G. Lanes alleges that the does are only "instruments of reproduction to save his male rabbits' triumph from becoming a hollow victory."<sup id="cite_ref-maleChauvinistRabbits_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-maleChauvinistRabbits-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lanes argued that this view of female rabbits came from Adams rather than his source text, Ronald Lockley's <i>The Private Life of the Rabbit</i> in which the rabbit world is matriarchal, and new warrens are initiated by dissatisfied young females.<sup id="cite_ref-lanes-lookingglass-194_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lanes-lookingglass-194-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In similar vein, literary critic Jane Resh Thomas said <i>Watership Down</i> "draws upon<span class="nowrap"> </span>... an anti-feminist social tradition which, removed from the usual human context and imposed upon rabbits, is eerie in its clarity". Thomas also called it a "splendid story" in which "anti-feminist bias<span class="nowrap"> </span>... damages the novel in only a minor way".<sup id="cite_ref-resh-thomas_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-resh-thomas-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Adams's 1996 sequel, <i><a href="/wiki/Tales_from_Watership_Down" title="Tales from Watership Down">Tales from Watership Down</a></i> includes stories where the female rabbits play a more prominent role in the Watership Down warren.<sup id="cite_ref-biersdorfer_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-biersdorfer-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ownership_controversy">Ownership controversy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Watership_Down&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Ownership controversy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 27 May 2020, the high court in London ruled that <a href="/wiki/Martin_Rosen_(director)" title="Martin Rosen (director)">Martin Rosen</a>, the director of the 1978 film adaptation, had wrongly claimed that he owned all rights to the book, as well as terminating his contract for rights to the film. Rosen had entered into adaptation contracts worth more than $500,000 (£400,000), including licences for an audiobook adaptation and the 2018 television adaptation. </p><p>In his ruling, Judge Richard Hacon ordered Rosen to pay over $100,000 in damages for copyright infringement, unauthorised licence deals, and denying royalty payments to the Adams estate. Rosen was also directed to provide a record of all licence agreements involving <i>Watership Down</i>, and pay court costs and the Adams estate's legal fees totalling £28,000.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Adaptations">Adaptations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Watership_Down&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Adaptations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Music">Music</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Watership_Down&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Music"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the early 1970s <a href="/wiki/Bo_Hansson" title="Bo Hansson">Bo Hansson</a> was introduced to the book by his then girlfriend. This gave him an idea to create a new album in the same style as his <i><a href="/wiki/Music_Inspired_by_Lord_of_the_Rings_(Bo_Hansson_album)" title="Music Inspired by Lord of the Rings (Bo Hansson album)">Lord of the Rings</a></i> album. In 1977 he released the all instrumental <i><a href="/wiki/Music_Inspired_by_Watership_Down" title="Music Inspired by Watership Down">El-Ahrairah</a></i>. The title was taken directly from the pages of <i>Watership Down</i>, with El-Ahrairah being the name of a trickster, folk-hero/deity rabbit, known as <i>The Prince with a Thousand Enemies</i>. In other countries the album was released as <i>Music Inspired by Watership Down</i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Film">Film</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Watership_Down&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Film"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Watership_Down_(film)" title="Watership Down (film)">Watership Down (film)</a></div> <p>In 1978 <a href="/wiki/Martin_Rosen_(director)" title="Martin Rosen (director)">Martin Rosen</a> wrote and directed <a href="/wiki/Watership_Down_(film)" title="Watership Down (film)">an animated film</a> adaptation of <i>Watership Down</i>. The voice cast included <a href="/wiki/John_Hurt" title="John Hurt">John Hurt</a>, <a href="/wiki/Richard_Briers" title="Richard Briers">Richard Briers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Harry_Andrews" title="Harry Andrews">Harry Andrews</a>, <a href="/wiki/Simon_Cadell" title="Simon Cadell">Simon Cadell</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nigel_Hawthorne" title="Nigel Hawthorne">Nigel Hawthorne</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Roy_Kinnear" title="Roy Kinnear">Roy Kinnear</a>. The film featured the song "<a href="/wiki/Bright_Eyes_(Art_Garfunkel_song)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bright Eyes (Art Garfunkel song)">Bright Eyes</a>", sung by <a href="/wiki/Art_Garfunkel" title="Art Garfunkel">Art Garfunkel</a>. Released as a single, the song became a UK number one hit<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> although Richard Adams said that he hated it.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Although the essentials of the plot remained relatively unchanged, the film omitted several side plots. Though the Watership Down warren eventually grew to seventeen rabbits with the additions of Strawberry, Holly, Bluebell, and three hutch rabbits liberated from the farm, the movie includes a band of only eight. Rosen's adaptation was praised for "cutting through Adams' book<span class="nowrap"> </span>... to get to the beating heart".<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The film has also seen some positive critical attention. In 1979 the film received a nomination for the <a href="/wiki/Hugo_Award_for_Best_Dramatic_Presentation" title="Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation">Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Additionally, British television station <a href="/wiki/Channel_4" title="Channel 4">Channel 4</a>'s 2006 documentary <i>100 Greatest Cartoons</i> named it the 86th greatest cartoon of all time.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> But, "lovable bunnies notwithstanding, younger children might be troubled by the more graphic scenes. Numerous rabbits die in bloody fights, while one gets choked by a snare and another is snatched by a bird of prey."<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Television">Television</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Watership_Down&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Television"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Watership_Down_(1999_TV_series)" title="Watership Down (1999 TV series)">Watership Down (1999 TV series)</a></div> <p>From 1999 to 2001, the book was also adapted as an animated television series, broadcast on <a href="/wiki/CITV" title="CITV">CITV</a> in the UK and on <a href="/wiki/YTV_(TV_channel)" class="mw-redirect" title="YTV (TV channel)">YTV</a> in Canada.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Only the first two series were aired in the UK, while all three series were aired in Canada. It was produced by <a href="/wiki/Martin_Rosen_(director)" title="Martin Rosen (director)">Martin Rosen</a> and starred several well-known British actors, including <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Fry" title="Stephen Fry">Stephen Fry</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rik_Mayall" title="Rik Mayall">Rik Mayall</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dawn_French" title="Dawn French">Dawn French</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Hurt" title="John Hurt">John Hurt</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Richard_Briers" title="Richard Briers">Richard Briers</a>, running for a total of 39 episodes over three seasons. Although the story was broadly based on the novel and most characters and events retained, some of the story lines and characters (especially in later episodes) were entirely new. In 2003, the second season was nominated for a <a href="/wiki/Gemini_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Gemini Award">Gemini Award</a> for Best Original Music Score for a Dramatic Series.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2018_animated_series">2018 animated series</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Watership_Down&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: 2018 animated series"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Watership_Down_(2018_TV_series)" title="Watership Down (2018 TV series)">Watership Down (2018 TV series)</a></div> <p>In July 2014, it was announced that the BBC would be airing a new animated series based on the book<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in April 2016 that the series would be a co-production between the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> and <a href="/wiki/Netflix" title="Netflix">Netflix</a>, consisting of four one-hour episodes,<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with a budget of £20 million. The four episode serial premiered on the BBC and Netflix on 23 December 2018, with the voices of <a href="/wiki/James_McAvoy" title="James McAvoy">James McAvoy</a> as Hazel, <a href="/wiki/John_Boyega" title="John Boyega">John Boyega</a> as Bigwig, and <a href="/wiki/Ben_Kingsley" title="Ben Kingsley">Ben Kingsley</a> as General Woundwort.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It received generally positive reviews, with praise for the performances of its voice cast, but received criticism for its tone and the quality of the <a href="/wiki/Computer_animation" title="Computer animation">computer animation</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Theatre">Theatre</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Watership_Down&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Theatre"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2006, <i>Watership Down</i> was again adapted for the stage, this time by <a href="/wiki/Rona_Munro" title="Rona Munro">Rona Munro</a>. It ran at the <a href="/wiki/Lyric_Hammersmith" class="mw-redirect" title="Lyric Hammersmith">Lyric Hammersmith</a> in London. Directed by <a href="/wiki/Melly_Still" title="Melly Still">Melly Still</a>, the cast included Matthew Burgess, Joseph Traynor, and Richard Simons. The tone of the production was inspired by the tension of war: in an interview with <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i>, Still commented, "The closest humans come to feeling like rabbits is under war conditions<span class="nowrap"> </span>... We've tried to capture that anxiety."<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A reviewer at <i><a href="/wiki/The_Times" title="The Times">The Times</a></i> called the play "an exciting, often brutal tale of survival" and said that "even when it's a muddle, it's a glorious one."<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2011, <i>Watership Down</i> was adapted for the <a href="/wiki/Lifeline_Theatre" title="Lifeline Theatre">Lifeline Theatre</a> in Chicago by John Hildreth. This production was directed by Katie McLean Hainsworth and the cast included Scott T. Barsotti, Chris Daley, Paul S. Holmquist, and Mandy Walsh.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Role-playing_game">Role-playing game</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Watership_Down&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Role-playing game"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Bunnies_%26_Burrows" title="Bunnies & Burrows">Bunnies & Burrows</a></div> <p><i>Watership Down</i> inspired the creation of <i>Bunnies & Burrows</i>, an early <a href="/wiki/Role-playing_game" title="Role-playing game">role-playing game</a> in which the main characters are talking rabbits, published in 1976 by Fantasy Games Unlimited.<sup id="cite_ref-GURPS_71-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GURPS-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It introduced several innovations to role-playing game design, being the first game to allow players to have non-<a href="/wiki/Humanoid" title="Humanoid">humanoid</a> roles, as well as the first with detailed martial arts and skill systems. Fantasy Games Unlimited published a second edition of the game in 1982, and the game was modified and republished by <a href="/wiki/Steve_Jackson_Games" title="Steve Jackson Games">Steve Jackson Games</a> as an official <a href="/wiki/GURPS_Bunnies_%26_Burrows" title="GURPS Bunnies & Burrows"><i>GURPS</i> supplement</a> in 1992.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2017)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Radio">Radio</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Watership_Down&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Radio"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2002, a two-part, two-hour dramatisation of <i>Watership Down</i> by Neville Teller was broadcast by <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_4" title="BBC Radio 4">BBC Radio 4</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In November 2016, a new two-part two-hour dramatisation, written by <a href="/wiki/Brian_Sibley" title="Brian Sibley">Brian Sibley</a>, was broadcast on <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_4" title="BBC Radio 4">BBC Radio 4</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Audiobooks">Audiobooks</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Watership_Down&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Audiobooks"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the 1970s, the book was released by <a href="/wiki/Argo_Records_(UK)" title="Argo Records (UK)">Argo Records</a> read by <a href="/wiki/Roy_Dotrice" title="Roy Dotrice">Roy Dotrice</a>, with musical background—music by <a href="/wiki/George_Butterworth" title="George Butterworth">George Butterworth</a> performed by <a href="/wiki/Academy_of_St_Martin_in_the_Fields" title="Academy of St Martin in the Fields">Academy of St Martin in the Fields</a> under the direction of <a href="/wiki/Neville_Marriner" title="Neville Marriner">Neville Marriner</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Scourby" title="Alexander Scourby">Alexander Scourby</a> narrated an unabridged edition, originally published on LP in the 1970s by the Talking Books program of the American Foundation for the Blind (<a href="/wiki/National_Library_Service_for_the_Blind_and_Print_Disabled" title="National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled">NLSB</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The LPs have been destroyed by NLSB and are very rare. </p><p>In 1984, <i>Watership Down</i> was adapted into a four-cassette <a href="/wiki/Audiobook" title="Audiobook">audiobook</a> by John Maher in association with the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Broadcasting_Company" title="Australian Broadcasting Company">Australian Broadcasting Company</a>'s Renaissance Players. Produced by John Hannaford and narrated by Kerry Francis, the audiobook was distributed by <a href="/wiki/The_Mind%27s_Eye_(radio_company)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Mind's Eye (radio company)">The Mind's Eye</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1990, a 16-hour, 11-cassette recording read by John MacDonald was published by Books on Tape, Inc. of Santa Ana, CA.<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Sachs" title="Andrew Sachs">Andrew Sachs</a> recorded a five and a half-hour abridged version of the story for Puffin Audiobooks.<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2010, <a href="/wiki/Audible.com" class="mw-redirect" title="Audible.com">Audible.com</a> released an unabridged digital download of the book, narrated by the multiple award-winning <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Cosham" title="Ralph Cosham">Ralph Cosham</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2019, Blackstone Audio Inc. released an unabridged version of <i>Watership Down</i> with a foreword by the author, Richard Adams. <a href="/wiki/Peter_Capaldi" title="Peter Capaldi">Peter Capaldi</a> narrated the 17-hour, 31-minute book.<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Graphic_novel">Graphic novel</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Watership_Down&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Graphic novel"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A new graphic novel version of Watership Down was released in 2023, adapted by award-winning author <a href="/wiki/James_Sturm" title="James Sturm">James Sturm</a> and illustrated by bestselling artist Joe Sutphin.<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Parodies">Parodies</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Watership_Down&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Parodies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the American stop motion TV show <i><a href="/wiki/Robot_Chicken" title="Robot Chicken">Robot Chicken</a></i>, a parody of the book is done with the Fraggles, the main characters of the 80s show <i><a href="/wiki/Fraggle_Rock" title="Fraggle Rock">Fraggle Rock</a></i>, in place of the rabbits.<sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The November 1974 issue of <i><a href="/wiki/National_Lampoon_(magazine)" title="National Lampoon (magazine)">National Lampoon</a></i> magazine, released shortly after the resignation and pardon of President <a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Richard Nixon</a>, featured a satirical parody of the novel entitled "Watergate Down", written by <a href="/wiki/Sean_Kelly_(writer)" title="Sean Kelly (writer)">Sean Kelly</a>, in which rabbits are replaced by rats, described as animals with "the morals of a Democrat and the ethics of a Republican".<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/CollegeHumor" title="CollegeHumor">Dropout</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons" title="Dungeons & Dragons">Dungeons & Dragons</a></i> series <i><a href="/wiki/Dimension_20" title="Dimension 20">Dimension 20</a></i> has a side quest "Burrow's End" loosely based on <i>Watership Down</i>. 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Knopf imprints)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The map in the front of the book indicates the story begins in the real-life <a href="/wiki/Wash_Common" title="Wash Common">Wash Common</a>, just beyond the western tip of the park and parish of <a href="/wiki/Sandleford" title="Sandleford">Sandleford</a>, on the Berkshire-Hampshire border.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-GCFP-45"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-GCFP_45-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> Six books have won both awards in 45 years through 2011; alternatively, six authors have won the Carnegie Medal in Literature for their <a href="/wiki/Guardian_Prize" class="mw-redirect" title="Guardian Prize">Guardian Prize</a>-winning books. <a href="/wiki/CILIP" class="mw-redirect" title="CILIP">Professional librarians</a> confer the Carnegie and select the winner from all British children's books. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i> newspaper's prize winner is selected by British children's writers, "peers" of the author who have not yet won it themselves, for one children's (age 7+) or young-adult fiction book. Details regarding the author and publisher nationality have varied.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Citations">Citations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Watership_Down&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Citations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-worldcat-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-worldcat_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/633254">"Watership Down"</a> (library catalog record for a copy of the first edition). <a href="/wiki/WorldCat" title="WorldCat">WorldCat</a>. Retrieved 26 July 2012.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-LCC1-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-LCC1_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://lccn.loc.gov/73159035">"Watership Down (by) Richard Adams"</a>. Library of Congress Catalog Record. Retrieved 31 July 2012.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-LCC2-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-LCC2_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-LCC2_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://lccn.loc.gov/73006044">"Watership Down (by) Richardo Adams"</a> (first U.S. edition). LCC record. Retrieved 31 July 2012.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/richard-adams-forever-animated-by-the-life-of-animals-1974572.html">Richard Adams: Forever animated by the life of animals</a>. The Independent (online). Retrieved 23 December 2012.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-wizards-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-wizards_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-wizards_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRateliff" class="citation web cs1">Rateliff, John D. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081228025527/http://ww2.wizards.com/books/Wizards/default.aspx?doc=main_classicswatership">"Classics of Fantasy"</a>. Wizards of the Coast, Inc. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ww2.wizards.com/books/Wizards/default.aspx?doc=main_classicswatership">the original</a> on 28 December 2008<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">21 March</span> 2008</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Classics+of+Fantasy&rft.pub=Wizards+of+the+Coast%2C+Inc.&rft.aulast=Rateliff&rft.aufirst=John+D.&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fww2.wizards.com%2Fbooks%2FWizards%2Fdefault.aspx%3Fdoc%3Dmain_classicswatership&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWatership+Down" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-BBC-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-BBC_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-BBC_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/berkshire/content/articles/2007/03/16/richard_adams_interview_feature.shtml">"Interview: Richard Adams"</a>. <i>BBC Berkshire</i>. BBC. 16 March 2007<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">15 March</span> 2008</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=BBC+Berkshire&rft.atitle=Interview%3A+Richard+Adams&rft.date=2007-03-16&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fberkshire%2Fcontent%2Farticles%2F2007%2F03%2F16%2Frichard_adams_interview_feature.shtml&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWatership+Down" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-isfdb-tales-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-isfdb-tales_8-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?172021"><i>Tales from Watership Down </i> (first edition)</a> publication contents at the <a href="/wiki/Internet_Speculative_Fiction_Database" title="Internet Speculative Fiction Database">Internet Speculative Fiction Database</a>. Retrieved 8 September 2012.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.iblist.com/book13436.htm"><i>Tales from Watership Down</i></a> at the Internet Book List</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSally_Eckhoff1996" class="citation news cs1">Sally Eckhoff (26 November 1996). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071207222031/http://dir.salon.com/story/books/review/1996/11/21/sneakpeeks/">"Tales from Watership Down"</a>. <i>Salon</i>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://dir.salon.com/story/books/review/1996/11/21/sneakpeeks/">the original</a> on 7 December 2007<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">15 March</span> 2008</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Salon&rft.atitle=Tales+from+Watership+Down&rft.date=1996-11-26&rft.au=Sally+Eckhoff&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fdir.salon.com%2Fstory%2Fbooks%2Freview%2F1996%2F11%2F21%2Fsneakpeeks%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWatership+Down" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Watership_Down-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Watership_Down_11-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAdams1974" class="citation book cs1">Adams, Richard (1974). <i>Watership Down</i>. England, UK: Penguin Books. p. Before the dedication. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-14-003958-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-14-003958-9"><bdi>0-14-003958-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Watership+Down&rft.place=England%2C+UK&rft.pages=Before+the+dedication&rft.pub=Penguin+Books&rft.date=1974&rft.isbn=0-14-003958-9&rft.aulast=Adams&rft.aufirst=Richard&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWatership+Down" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-interview-swaim-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-interview-swaim_12-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-interview-swaim_12-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-interview-swaim_12-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSwaim1985" class="citation web cs1">Swaim, Don (10 April 1985). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080218154100/http://www.wiredforbooks.org/richardadams/">"Audio Interview with Richard Adams"</a>. <i>Book Beat</i>. CBS Radio Stations News Service. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.wiredforbooks.org/richardadams/">the original</a> <span class="cs1-format">(audio)</span> on 18 February 2008<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">21 March</span> 2008</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Book+Beat&rft.atitle=Audio+Interview+with+Richard+Adams&rft.date=1985-04-10&rft.aulast=Swaim&rft.aufirst=Don&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wiredforbooks.org%2Frichardadams%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWatership+Down" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-WD-first-ed-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-WD-first-ed_13-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRichard_Adams1972" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Richard_Adams" title="Richard Adams">Richard Adams</a> (1972). <i>Watership Down</i>. United Kingdom: Rex Collings.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Watership+Down&rft.place=United+Kingdom&rft.pub=Rex+Collings&rft.date=1972&rft.au=Richard+Adams&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWatership+Down" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-economist-lockley-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-economist-lockley_14-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-economist-lockley_14-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1">"Ronald Lockley: Find More Like This". <i>The Economist</i>. Vol. 355, no. 8168. 29 April 2000. p. 84. <q>In 1964 he had published <i>The Private Life of the Rabbit</i>. This study of the habits of the wild rabbit gathered by Mr. Lockley persuaded Richard Adams to write <i>Watership Down</i>, a kind of Disney story for adults, which became an immediate bestseller.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Economist&rft.atitle=Ronald+Lockley%3A+Find+More+Like+This&rft.volume=355&rft.issue=8168&rft.pages=84&rft.date=2000-04-29&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWatership+Down" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDouglas_Martin2000" class="citation news cs1">Douglas Martin (4 April 2000). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/24/world/ronald-lockley-of-rabbit-fame-dies-at-96.html">"Ronald Lockley, of Rabbit Fame, Dies at 96"</a>. <i>The New York Times</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">26 April</span> 2008</span>. <q>In his acknowledgments, Mr. Adams credited Mr. Lockley's book for his own description of bunny behavior in his tale of wandering rabbits.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.atitle=Ronald+Lockley%2C+of+Rabbit+Fame%2C+Dies+at+96&rft.date=2000-04-04&rft.au=Douglas+Martin&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2000%2F04%2F24%2Fworld%2Fronald-lockley-of-rabbit-fame-dies-at-96.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWatership+Down" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAdams1990" class="citation book cs1">Adams, Richard (1990). <i>The Day Gone By</i>. 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Rateliff</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.tor.com/blogs/2010/10/rabbit-realism-and-folklore-richard-adamss-watership-down">Review of <i>Watership Down</i></a> by <a href="/wiki/Jo_Walton" title="Jo Walton">Jo Walton</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.litreact.com/reactions/watership%20down_adams_conejos.html">Analysis of <i>Watership Down</i> on Lit React</a></li></ul> <table class="wikitable succession-box noprint" style="margin:0.5em auto; font-size:small;clear:both;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #FFF179;">Awards </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><i><a href="/wiki/Josh_(novel)" title="Josh (novel)">Josh</a></i></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Carnegie_Medal_(literary_award)" title="Carnegie Medal (literary award)">Carnegie Medal recipient</a> </b><br />1972 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Ghost_of_Thomas_Kempe" title="The Ghost of Thomas Kempe">The Ghost of Thomas Kempe</a></i></div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="navbox-styles"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul 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title="Contemporary fantasy">Contemporary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Children%27s_fantasy" title="Children's fantasy">Children's fantasy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fantasy_comedy" title="Fantasy comedy">Comedy</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bangsian_fantasy" title="Bangsian fantasy">Bangsian</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dark_fantasy" title="Dark fantasy">Dark fantasy</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Grimdark" title="Grimdark">Grimdark</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fairy_tale_parody" title="Fairy tale parody">Fairy tale parodies</a>‎</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fairytale_fantasy" title="Fairytale fantasy">Fairytale fantasy</a>‎</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fantastique" title="Fantastique">Fantastique</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fantasy_of_manners" title="Fantasy of manners">Fantasy of manners</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hard_fantasy" title="Hard fantasy">Hard fantasy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/High_fantasy" title="High fantasy">High fantasy</a></li> <li><a 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navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:7em"><a href="/wiki/Fantasy_film" title="Fantasy film">Film</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fantasy_television" title="Fantasy television">television</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_fantasy_anime" title="List of fantasy anime">Anime</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lists_of_fantasy_films" title="Lists of fantasy films">Films</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_fantasy_films" title="List of highest-grossing fantasy films">highest-grossing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_sword_and_sorcery_films" title="List of sword and sorcery films">S&S</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_fantasy_television_programs" title="List of fantasy television programs">Television programs</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:7em"><a 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