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In composing the "Song of the Ten Heroes" Armavir had
to put this third stanza in to stave off the kender's hard
feelings (yes, some poetry is most fanciful, most feigning),
and perhaps it was even a sincere gesture on the poet's part
to say that his own hard feelings he was willing to put
aside? But what does Mister Minimus, everybody's favorite,
do? Tries to steal this manuscript, readers - the very
manuscript you're reading at this moment. Wanted to
publish it under HIS name, change it a little to prove HE
wrote the Dragonlance songs, when even the "Kender
Trailsong"23 and "Kender Mourning Song"24 were not his,
and his "Song of Courage"25 an insipid little number he
twisted by
23. CHRONICLES, I, p. 75. Caramon deftly changed the name of this
(though why he would choose "Trailsong" is beyond this humble writer). It
was written some years after the war, in a moment of abject bitterness, for
Caramon himself (Tika being the "one true love" of the poem). Reorx
knows what Tasslehoff sang before the centaurs, but it wasn't this.
24. CHRONICLES, III, p. 261. He'd even claim this as his own, that bald-
faced little graverobber of metaphor!
25. LEGENDS, II, p. 86. The last two stanzas are Armavir's, the first two
Tasslehoff's perversion
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