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The Wheel of Time has the Aes Sedai based in the White Tower.This one doesn't look much, but is Taller From The Top. In The Last Continent, there's another magic university tower.Even Rincewind, who is barely a wizard at all, instinctively tries to build his own tower while sleepwalking, piling rocks on top of each other. When a full-scale global disc-wide magical war does indeed break out, the two sides have ensconced themselves in recently built towers, directing magical attacks in the same way that you'd direct a nuclear war. In the book Sourcery, the impulse to build a tower is a particular feature of wizards, particularly those engaged in warfare with each other.The centerpiece of Unseen University is the super-tall Tower of Art, which is supposed to be the oldest part of it.Granted, only handful of them could be called "wizard", for various reasons. Actually, considering how many characters in history of Tolkienverse had some magic-like abilities, adding the fact elves just LOVED towers and high places.point randomly into any map of Arda ever made and you are bound to be close to place which was tower containing magical device / wizard / extra-wise man or elf at one point in time at least.He began re-raising his old tower, Barad-Dur, less than a decade later. The White Council eventually drove him out of Mirkwood, but had delayed long enough for him to restore himself in Mordor. He was known as The Necromancer, an evil sorcerer, and lived in the tower-fortress of Dol-Guldur on the edge of Mirkwood. Played straight by Sauron before he revealed his true identity after being slain by Isildur.Though Sauron is actually a Demon Lord that sometimes uses spells, and the Witch-king is an Undead Magic Knight more than a pure Sorcerer or Lich. Barad-dur and Minas Morgul, occupied by Sauron and the Witch-king respectively, might also be considered examples.The tower Orthanc in Isengard during its occupation by Saruman.In some stories, his eventual fate is to be imprisoned in an invisible tower, though there are certainly other versions (a cave is probably more common). Stories which have him living in someone's castle tend to put him in one of its towers, for example. Merlin, of Arthurian legend, is sometimes given one.Earlier variants of "Maiden in the Tower" - of which Rapnuzel is the best known - often have the maiden have considerably magical ability, which she deploys to let herself and the hero get away from her mother who kept her in the tower, such as.

In The Sword in the Stone, Merlin gets given a cold, leaky, run-down tower by Sir Ector.

Also, castles are associated with towers.

Howls Moving Castle: In the Miyazaki adaption, Howl's moving castle is basically a tower on legs.

A tower owned by a wizard of evil-ish disposition will likely be an Evil Tower of Ominousness. Or simply extreme isolation.Ī subtrope of The Tower, obviously. In another sense, high towers are ancient symbols of arrogance and hubris. A high tower conveys a sense of isolation from "normal" people, which those academics (or in this case, magicians) use to study in peace, much the same way that religious gurus are often depicted praying on mountaintops. This trope probably stems from the metaphorical "ivory tower", which refers to academics who remove themselves from the rest of society to study. Sometimes they're free-standing, while at other times, they're tacked on to some larger building, such as a castle (especially if the wizard is a Court Mage). Sometimes these towers are no larger than is needed for a single individual, while other times, they house an entire community of magicians, and may possibly serve as a Wizarding School or the headquarters of a magocracy. Not all of them, certainly, but enough for the tendency to be noticed. PAGES WILL BE DELETED OTHERWISE IF THEY ARE MISSING BASIC MARKUP. DON'T MAKE PAGES MANUALLY UNLESS A TEMPLATE IS BROKEN, AND REPORT IT THAT IS THE CASE. THIS SHOULD BE WORKING NOW, REPORT ANY ISSUES TO Janna2000, SelfCloak or RRabbit42. The Trope workshop specific templates can then be removed and it will be regarded as a regular trope page after being moved to the Main namespace.

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