Talk:Characters of The Neverending Story

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[edit] Ideas for improvement

This article is a bit messy. By the looks of it, it's the result of the merger of a number of separate articles, without the needed changes to their content. A few remarks:

• Do we really need start off each description with "[insert name here] is a fictional character from Michael Ende's The Neverending Story"? Given that this is the "Characters of The Neverending Story" article, I'd expect that people should be able guess that much.
• It seems to me that not all notable characters are mentioned. Perhaps we should also mention the fellowship of the rockbiter and the guys with their flying bat and racing snail (whose English names elude me at the moment) that introduced the Neverending Story, and the researcher Engywook and Urgl (who are referred to in Ygramul's paragraph but otherwise not mentioned).
• I think we should give the names in both their English and their original German spellings.
• Maybe it's even a good idea to split this page up into characters from the novel and characters from the movie adaptations, since there are some in each that are not in the other, and some are portrayed differently. (Or we could just remark upon the differences, as seems to be the present solution.) Fyrius (talk) 00:39, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Yes, this page is the result of a merger I performed per WP:FICT. TNeS was one of my favorite books, but I haven't read it in a few years. I don't have access to any scholar material for TNeS and I am already quite busy with real-life and other wikiprojects, so if you can give this page a facelift, I'd greately appreciate it. – sgeureka ^t•c 12:40, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

I changed the first lines of every description to something more suitable, and gave the original German names that I could find. I think I'll implement the second remark later on. Fyrius (talk) 13:48, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

• The name of the land of the Child-like Empress is called Fantasia not Fantistica Deadlydiva (talk) 04:26, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ygramul

"The creature actually comprises many little insects who share a single hive mind."

This sentence doesn't make sense to me. I liked it the way it was, but please explain to me why you changed it to this, in case I am missing something. -- OranL (talk) 18:01, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

• I changed it back. — OranL (talk) 09:20, 24 April 2008 (UTC)