i think its called "Wintersmith" or something like that. :?

yup your right
"Wintersmith, Future novel, hinted at in 'The Art of Discworld'. A brief excerpt was read at the 2004 Convention. Contracted to appear by March 2006."
and there may even be another
"I Shall Wear Midnight, Possible future novel, hinted at in 'The Art of Discworld'.

have you heard that there making a film of the wee free men. they are scared that the scottish will be ofended but im from scottland and terry prachett lanced the book in inverness. the book gets the scootish down to a tee. i cant wait until it comes out :o :o :o :o :o :o

Hey peapod, a small advice... I know you're one of our dyslexics, so not a word at all about your spelling. Especially not from me. But there's no diagnosis that excuses such an overwhelming amount of smileys - I think one or two would do the job. (It's kind of being regarded as the visual equivalent of a multitude of explanation marks, and you know what the Marthter says about [i:2f33b1c9c3]them[/i:2f33b1c9c3], do you?)

[quote:30dbac71e4="peapod_j"] the book gets the scootish down to a tee. i cant wait until it comes out :o :o :o :o :o :o[/quote:30dbac71e4]

Hmmm they are great characters, among my favourites, and TP certainly draws a wonderfully observed caricature, but it IS a caricature, like the "See you Jimmy" character of Russ Abbott (ok I'm giving away my age here!).

Or maybe I'm just fortunate to have grown up never meeting a real life Scot who talks and behaves like that!

Ehh...I think he mentioned in the Art of Discworld that their jargon was a bit of Scots and a bit of made up stuff and a few other things, and of course they owe a lot to the Picts, who are the people who USED to live where to Scots are now. Something somebody said earlier in this thread intrigued me... The Nac Mac Feegle were "more believable than Roundworld fairy tales of pixies" and things. They're certainly more fleshed-out, but plenty of the old elves ('elf' used here in the broadest sense of the word) were sort of like them, in various ways.

Good and evil came up, too. I think...the Queen is 'evil' but she doesn't KNOW it; hasn't the capacity to know it, I think...remember Lily Weatherwax? It's a type of evil he seems to like applying to females. Hm, there's a thought. First one I've produced today! Wow, I'm going to bed....

well i fell sory if you have never met a scott who specks like the wee free men. i hear scots every where and when i moved up i was very confused (i used to live in Durham near newcastle before i moved up 4 and a 1/2 years ago) but i can translate it in my head now since i have got used to it and i hope they get good Scottish actors with the right acent to do the wee free men i would hate it if the used English actors :( (noyhing gainst England but the English an not do a scots acent

Hmm...like the brownies in Willow...

**desperately tries to remeber in which episode of Buffy Willow ate brownies... and then gives up and goes to hang herself for such a lame joke**

Hah. ^-^ No.

It was one of the first movies they used the 'morfing' technology (no, I didn't misspell that; they really used an 'f' for some reason.) There are these two little lunatic brownies who like to fight and steal and get drunk, and they have the most absurd accents. No offense to anyone who actually talks like that, if such person exists. More Welsh than Scottish, though, I think....

1) I love Willow and the brownies are amazing, although I couldn't define their accent as Welsh or Scottish really. I just love their comedy arguing ("You are drunk, and when you are drunk you forget that I AM IN CHARGE"), and their mad hair.

2) I would probably have to say that this is my favourite book- I know it's really impossible to choose one, but if forced at gunpoint...The reason is Tiffany's relationship to the land and her grandmother. Plus Pratchett's concept of witchcraft is most fully explained in this book, I think. And I love Tiffany, and the fact there's a heroine with dark hair who doesn't fully get on with people and reads everything she can lay her hands on, and is so tough and rescues people instead of being rescued. Plus the pictsies- I did think that maybe some Scottish people would be offended if it was made into a film, but I think most of them would love it. My mum's Scottish but she hasn't read the book so I can't do any unscientific opinion polls, sorry.

The Brownies' accent was mostly derived from French, not Welsh or Scottish. They varied it a bit from a real French accent, making it a bit more nasal, but it's at least as French as French wine (grown from American rootstock).

Unfortunately I have only ever seen the movie in French, so they don't have much of an accent... One day, I'll get myself the DVD...