# Epilogue explained — The Book of Wonder

> Chapter companion for The Book of Wonder by Lord Dunsany.

## What happens

The narrator bids farewell to readers, hinting at future tales of gnomes robbing fairies, the fairies' vengeance, the King of Ool's insult to troubadours, and the troubadours' revenge through song, before returning to the Edge of the World.

## Themes in this chapter

### The Power of Art and Music

The troubadours use song to make the King of Ool ridiculous forever, illustrating the enduring power of art.

### Irony and Moral Ambiguity

The King of Ool feels safe with his archers and halberdiers, yet is undone by the troubadours' moonlight song, an ironic twist of power.

## Key lines

> how the King of Ool insulted the troubadours, thinking himself safe among his scores of archers and hundreds of halberdiers, and how the troubadours stole to his towers by night, and under his battlements by the light of the moon made that king ridiculous forever in song.

The King of Ool believed his many guards protected him when he insulted the troubadours, but they crept to his castle at night and, under moonlight, composed a song that mocked him eternally.

_Highlights the theme of art's power over brute force._

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