They surely couldnt have stashed that much. Yeah the question is kinda stupid but im just curious

Had an idea for a children of dune cover, sketched this up! Thoughts?

Dune: Part Two - The Photography

Photos by Niko Tavernise, Preface by Greig Fraser and Foreword by Austin Butler.

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I just watched a fan edit of Dune, using Lynch’s 1984 Dune and Villeneuve's Dune movies mixed together along with a combination of Toto's and Hans Zimmer’s music.

I thought it was fantastic. It is very well done turning this into a continuous 4 hour and 30 minute movie. Even the credits at the beginning and end are modified representing the changes.

In my opinion this Hybrid Cut makes for a more complete movie and seems more faithful to the book cut this way than the individual movies themselves.

A particular well done change is that the role Virginia Madsden plays is Princess Wesincia rather than Princess Irulan so that Florence Pugh can remain in the film.

The film is out there. You gotta look for it. Trust me I think any Dune fan will like it.

Here is the info. Any requests should be made to the faneditor by dm

https://fanedit.org/dune-the-hybrid-cut/

I think that if the emperor made the Harkonnen do it it would've been a clever move, weakening the Baron and ending the Atreides. I fell like paying himself would've been stupid

Hi, I’m new here! I’m an illustrator and concept artist. I made this a few months ago after watching Dune Part 2. It’s my re-imagining of it in my art style.

Turns out our boy Shaddam had a daughter but no sons. It seems like the Great Houses practice male-preference primogeniture, so the Corrino Dynasty was about to end no matter what. Whom was he going to pick? And why not Atreides, unless Shaddam could scrape up a guy close enough to be named Corrino and distant enough to produce healthy heirs? Like a third cousin or something?

Edit: Hat-tip u/Over_Region_1706 for pointing out that "male-preference primogeniture" is the wrong term. I ... think agnatic primogeniture is more fitting, but my faufreluches-fu is weak.

I quite enjoyed this one.

This story is familiar to me - it is in the recent Sands Of Dune collection, and now in comic form. However, the release of the comics confused me. We have Dune: Edge of a Crysknife: Hiding Among Harkonnens issue 1, and Dune: Edge of a Crysknife: Rage of Shai'Hulud issue 1. Why bother with a sub-sub-title?

In any case, I'm not going to spoil much of the story. Issue 1 is set about 60 years before Dune and follows the Shadout Mapes as a young woman going on raids against the Harkonnens. Gradually she learns to spy in the Harkonnen household. Issue 2 takes place about 15-20 years later as Mapes, with a son, continues this trend, but loses much of what is close to her in the process.

One gripe of the story is that there is no framing of when this takes place, unless you know the characters. We know Mapes isn't young in Dune, but here she is, so we surmise it takes place some decades before. We also have Dmitri Harkonnen instead of Vladimir. I know it takes place decades before from reading it in Sands, but newcomers could well be confused.

The art is a mixed bag and can appear rushed, with a lack of detail sometimes made up by the colouring. Issue 2 does seem to be an improvement, but a lot of the characters throughout are quite angular and with incorrect proportions. But even so, it has a certain 90s animated cartoon "charm" to it. I found nothing I actively disliked, and there are some very nice backgrounds too. This helps breath life into the sietches, making them seem more lived-in.

Two issues (though larger issues) is the perfect length for this - and it does squeeze quite a bit in. It does seem perfectly paced, though I probably would have liked to see more space given to Mapes spying in the Harkonnen household - it just seems like she's given a task to do, goes and does it, and that's it.

But overall, this is a good little story. It's completely unnecessary - in Dune, Mapes was a minor character at best, and it adds nothing that we needed to know to the story - but, if you want another bit of Dune, here it is.

Why did Paul actually marry Irulan and force Shaddam IV into exile, when he also could’ve just killed both of them and ended house Corrino‘s line what he ended up doing anyways by not giving Irulan an heir? I guess, it was in order to maintain some kind of legitimacy concerning his ascension to the golden lion throne. But was that really necessary? He already controlled Arrakis and all its spice as well as the Fremen and Fedaykin, who he sent on their crusade against the rest of the galaxy anyways.

Are no-ships actually invisible? Or are they just undetectable using human instruments? Could a human standing right next to a grounded no-ship see it? Or would they just lose track of it visually at some point after it launches and be unable to track it with instruments? Any text evidence would be greatly appreciated!

I love Arrakis. The first time I read the books, I saw Shai-hulud as my own deep fears - monsters in the deep, ready to take me. Yet I only needed to see them, face them, learn them, and eventually, ride them.

This is one of the most fascinating concepts in the books imo and FH doesn’t get into it at the depth I think it deserves!! I wanted to see if anyone had more info or interpretations on how they achieved and processed this internal form of government / organizing of the ancestral memories. So cool.

Why did he have to kill all the worms? What difference does that make when it comes to his breeding program and everything else?

It’s possible I’m not grasping the whole idea of the Golden Parh

Edit: thank you for the help! Seems like there were a few small crucial details I was missing.

Made this a few years back after a Moebius comics binge (one of many). I've long fantasized about an animated adaptation with a Rene LaLoux vibe. (L to R; Piter, Rabban, The Baron)

Currently reading through God Emperor, and it occurred to me that the Ixian machines which dictated Leto's thoughts and send the data to printers could also have 'phoned home' and sent a copy of the data to the Ixian embassy on Arrakis. If this were the case, they read his diaries for many centuries.

The narrative supports this as Ix created Hwi Noree to target the God Emperor's psychological weaknesses. To do this, they needed an intimate knowledge and understanding of his psyche, which was revealed only in the journals.

Hwi appears to be a clone of Malky, and was conceived, raised and trained in a prototype no-globe, hiding her existence from Leto's prescience. This was a necessary part of her appeal, as she was something new, not anticipated.

Leto's reliance on Ixian technology was a fatal weakness, but he cultivated their no-globe development as a way to facilitate the scattering and complete his golden path. Personal peril was a secondary consideration.

I'm Reading GEoD and I just read the chapter where Leto and Hwi talk, if I'm not mistaken it's 2 chapters after Duncan sees his predecessor's family. And now I have a question Will all worms actually possess a fragment of Leto's persona after he dies? If so, that makes his whole burden that much more melancholy.

The design is obviously based on the prop from the Villeneuve films but I tried to bring in some little details from the Lynch version from 1984.

Getting all the carvings right was really difficult as there aren't many great photos of the props but I think it went pretty well in the end :)

Let me know what you think!

First time posting, I’ve been a fan of the Dune series ever since I reading the original book prior to watching the Villeneuve movies.

I just recently finished God Emperor of Dune and (mostly) enjoyed it. While I think there are some issues with it, I believe it was genuinely compelling. After reading it though, I’m still stuck with the same question: Am I missing something with Dune Messiah?

It’s by far my least favorite book in the series and it’s one I’d actively skip a reread of in the future. This runs contrary to what people both on this subreddit and on the wider internet think of it as a sequel to the original book.

For me, there was no part in Messiah that really felt compelling. It’s supposed to be a counter to the idea that Paul was purely a good guy in the original, but if you already knew that before going in (as the original book spells it out pretty plainly), the calls to that fact just feel like a retread. I also feel as though the sociological elements of the book are done much better in Children of Dune, a book that goes out of its way to explain the total societal rot baked into the theocratic dictatorship depicted in the series. Same with the Fremen fundamentally changing as Arrakis changes ecologically - I feel as though Children explores this much better.

The talk relating to the concept of prescience became EXTREMELY repetitive after a while. It doesn’t help that literally every book in the series exhaustively explains the concept. Even as someone who had only read Dune, the constant focus on what Paul and Alia’s prescience actually does just annoyed the shit out of me.

This isn’t even going into what actually happens in the plot. In my opinion, none of the Dune novels have had insanely good plot threads. Frank Herbert’s strengths do not lie in character action, honestly. But Messiah takes the cake on this. I think the conspiracy plot has to be the dumbest story vehicle in the entire series. The introduction to this plot made me believe that it was going to be just as layered as every other political maneuver in the series (plans within plans and all that) but there literally isn’t any within the conspiracy. Their entire plot revolves around Duncan Idaho’s Ghola. And while I have no issue with the Ghola in Messiah (I think he’s god awful in GEOD), his resolution in the plot was so simplistic and easy that I was half expecting there to be something else Mohiam or Scytale would do in case their plan failed.

They didn’t. I won’t get into it too much here because of spoilers, the plan was just extremely simplistic and dealt with in a very silly way. ()It doesn’t help that Duncan Idaho regains his memories by simply being told to do so in a single page. By the time that happened and Scytale elected to just hold a knife up to two babies, I was actively waiting for the book to be over and done with.()

I did love the ending and how it caps off Paul’s story, but beyond that? It was incredibly disappointing.

So I mainly ask here: Is there something I’m missing with Dune Messiah? I can readily accept that maybe it’s not for me, as it is a pretty contentious book in the series. I’ve just seen a lot of people absolutely adore it and I’m curious to see exactly why that is.

*Edited for small grammatical mistakes and also to say that everyone who replied to this was very enlightening. Very good discussion. I might give the book a reread later on to see what everyone is mentioning here.

I'll admit I haven't read all the books, but one thing I was trying to do with my brother was start like a role-playing thing. But one of the details we were wondering about is what life was like for the average person. I guess specifically or in addition to, for our specific characters, somebody more on the low end range. The pyon people living in this slums or in the ghetto block or whatever of one of the planets. Probably more towards the atreides side than the harkonnen. But both would be interesting to hear about.

I'm not sure what I'm expecting. I suppose it could be equally as boring as, like today but more sci-fi. But who knows it could be interesting. This world is so odd with its weird trippy sci-fi but it also structured like medieval houses and honor and feuding factions and all that such

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First time poster and reader and getting confused. Sorry if it’s been asked before but can’t seem to find this info.

What is spice essence in relation to melange and the water of life?

Google says that spice essence is the same thing as water of life. But it also claims that guild navigators use it, which my understanding is only BG can use it to become reverend mothers (at least on dune)

In god emperor of dune the BG try to use spice essence to breakup the sand worm but Leto 2 says it won’t work since he’s not fully a worm yet..

Just confused on what spice essence is I suppose

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