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Post by pyramidhead333 on Mar 28, 2009 13:49:52 GMT -6
Alright, I read "The Call of Cthulhu" a while ago, and today I still wonder just what happened with Cthulhu in the end SPECIFICALLY. On Youtube, Venger Satanis himself answered me, "It was not time for mankind to know the truth." Anyone got a better answer?
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Post by Shaz'rahjeem on Mar 28, 2009 22:17:30 GMT -6
He remains asleep in R'lyeh or rather goes back to sleep. Thats pretty much the generic sensus i have found to be what is beleived to have happend. Unless however you mean, what happens with cthulhu in the grand scheme of things well... thats a much a long winded answer which is really just the opinion of the person writing so...
The answers in these sought of things aren't always as obvious as we want them to be.
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Post by pyramidhead333 on Mar 29, 2009 10:17:44 GMT -6
I see. Well, of course VUC3N thinks he got his ass handed to him by the sailors.
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Post by youma on Mar 29, 2009 14:15:41 GMT -6
From Lovecraft's text, my impression is that the sailors only won in that they managed to escape, and if Cthulhu couldn't stay free, it's because he was vulnerable at the moment, freshly raised from his death-like sleep, but human opposition alone wouldn't have forced him back to his prison.
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Post by pyramidhead333 on Mar 31, 2009 14:25:26 GMT -6
That sounds more likely.
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Post by theplague on May 12, 2010 12:56:42 GMT -6
The storm seems to have eventually caused R'yleh to sink again beneath the waves, but recall, even as the Norwegian was sailing away, Lord Cthulhu was already recombining his original form, that is, he was certainly not killed. So things went back to the "status quo", with Lord Cthulhu dwelling/sleeping/dreaming in R'yleh, waiting for the stars to be ready, and his cultists to then call him forth into our world. That is why the narrator of the story wanted the tale to never reach other eyes, because nothing had really changed - Cthulhu and R'yleh were still there, and the cult was still there too, knowledge which the narrator feared would cause madness in men were it to become widely known.
Ia! Ia! Cthulhu fhtagn.
Frank
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