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45) "Rinkitink in Oz" - L. Frank Baum
The main character is the young Prince Inga, who goes through a series of adventures in the process of saving his parents and people from slavery. There's a strong intimation that he'll eventually marry the daughter of a woodcutter. (And the woodcutter's daughter for a time gets super powers, and is ridiculously strong and impervious to harm, which was kind of fun, even if only temporary.)
Again, this seems like he titled it with an intention to confuse, because the characters only ever get to Oz because Baum decided not to finish this story, just have Dorothy come swooping in and fix everything at the end. (Well, Dorothy and may or may not have been some random good luck off screen.*) Oh, and again the character whose name appears in the title really gets very little to do in the story. Rinkitink is a side character that seems to have been pulled from another book, and performs as the sidekick and comic relief to Prince Inga.
I think he would have been better off to have placed it at a different point in time, not tried to integrate it with his ongoing Ozian timeline, because he had to completely change the character of Kaliko, the new King of the Nomes, and that seemed too bad. He'd been a decent sort in "Tik Tok of Oz."
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* ( Cut for spoilers about what may or may not have been random good luck off screen. )
The main character is the young Prince Inga, who goes through a series of adventures in the process of saving his parents and people from slavery. There's a strong intimation that he'll eventually marry the daughter of a woodcutter. (And the woodcutter's daughter for a time gets super powers, and is ridiculously strong and impervious to harm, which was kind of fun, even if only temporary.)
Again, this seems like he titled it with an intention to confuse, because the characters only ever get to Oz because Baum decided not to finish this story, just have Dorothy come swooping in and fix everything at the end. (Well, Dorothy and may or may not have been some random good luck off screen.*) Oh, and again the character whose name appears in the title really gets very little to do in the story. Rinkitink is a side character that seems to have been pulled from another book, and performs as the sidekick and comic relief to Prince Inga.
I think he would have been better off to have placed it at a different point in time, not tried to integrate it with his ongoing Ozian timeline, because he had to completely change the character of Kaliko, the new King of the Nomes, and that seemed too bad. He'd been a decent sort in "Tik Tok of Oz."
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* ( Cut for spoilers about what may or may not have been random good luck off screen. )