122-590: Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox , known in America as Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox , is the sixth book in the series Artemis Fowl by Irish writer Eoin Colfer . It was released in the U.S. on 5 July 2008, and on 7 August in the U.K. At 432 pages, it is the longest book in the series. In Colfer's video blogs, he mentioned the book, saying it may not be the last, but the last one for at least three years. It
244-631: A magnate and exploring his and Holly's relationship. In December 2021, Colfer also expressed interest in writing a book about Mulch Diggums as a private investigator , a concept first explored in The Lost Colony , saying "I never say never" regarding a potential return at some point in the future to him writing novels set in the Fowl universe. Artemis Fowl II uses his intelligence to build his family fortune through crime. This stems from his family, who have been criminals for generations. Artemis
366-411: A "colossal octopus" attacking a ship, and included the engraving in his book. However, an English author recapitulating Montfort's account of it attaches an illustration of it, which was captioned: "The Kraken supposed a sepia or cuttlefish", while attributing Montfort. Hamilton's book was not alone in recontextualizing Montfort's ship-assaulting colossal octopus as a kraken; for instance, the piece on
488-575: A (supposed) medallion that Holly gave to Artemis in The Arctic Incident , which is actually a disc that will bring back his memories of the fairies. The fourth book, Artemis Fowl and the Opal Deception , covers power-hungry and insane pixie Opal Koboi 's second attempt at world domination, after her first fruitless attempt in the second novel . Koboi mesmerizes Giovanni Zito, a fictional environmentalist, into believing that she
610-603: A Norwegian dictionary, the root meaning of krake is "malformed or overgrown, crooked tree". It originates from Old Norse kraki , which is etymologically related to Old Norse krókr , lit. ' hook ' , cognate with "crook". This is backed up by the Swedish dictionary SAOB , published by the Swedish Academy , which gives essentially the exact same description for the word in Swedish and confirming
732-431: A clone of Artemis, which is taken to the now overgrown gate six months after Artemis's death. Artemis's spirit then takes control of the clone and he is alive once more. His eye color is now back to normal, with two blue eyes. The Artemis Fowl series was followed by a spin-off sequel series, called The Fowl Twins , centered around the characters of Myles and Beckett Fowl, Artemis's younger twin brothers. The first book in
854-429: A colossal octopus was capable of dragging a ship down, Montfort made a more daring hypothesis. He attempted to blame colossal octopuses for the loss of ten warships under British control in 1782, including six captured French men-of-war. The disaster began with the distress signal fired by the captured ship of the line Ville de Paris which was then swallowed up by parting waves, and the other ships coming to aid shared
976-415: A computer orb connected to the probes that Artemis found underwater, and find out that Turnball has kidnapped demon warlock N°1 to force him to reverse the aging of Turnball's wife, Leonor. In the end, Leonor and Turnball are killed in an explosion of a shuttle Leonor drives, to fulfill her last wish – to fly once again – and Artemis is sent to a fairy clinic to be cured of Atlantis Complex. The final book of
1098-435: A depth of 80–100 fathoms (140–180 metres (460–590 ft) deep), it sometimes happens that the plummet bottoms at 20–30 fathoms (35–50 metres (115–164 ft) deep). But in this water stand the most abundant shoals of cod and lings . Then you can assume that the kraken lurks down there; as it is he who forms the artificial elevation of the bottom and by his secretions attracts fish there. But if those fishing notices that
1220-676: A fairy condition resembling a combination of obsessive-compulsive disorder, extreme paranoia, and multiple personality disorder. This was brought on by Artemis stealing fairy magic from the time tunnel. This results in the debut of Orion Fowl, his alter ego. The idea is that Orion is Artemis's enemy from Greek mythology. The story follows Turnball Root, the criminal brother of Julius Root, as he breaks out of jail and sends probes to destroy his enemies, including Artemis, his fairy friends, and Butler, whom Artemis sent away due to his Atlantis Complex induced paranoia. After Butler, Artemis, and his fairy friends reunite, they hunt down Turnball, tracking him with
1342-406: A film adaptation of the series. Miramax Films was named as purchasing the film rights with Lawrence Guterman signed to direct. In 2003 Colfer stated that a screenplay had been finalized and that casting was due to start the same year but expressed skepticism over whether or not this would come to pass, though Colfer revealed the film was in pre-production. The film remained in development and
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#17327720163991464-471: A garbled eyewitness account of what was actually a whale, at least according to the Grönlands historiske Mindesmaerker . Halldór Hermannsson [ sv ] also reads the work as describing the hafgufa as a type of whale. Finnur Jónsson (1920) having arrived at the opinion that the kraken probably represented an inkfish (squid/octopus), as discussed earlier, expressed his skepticism towards
1586-508: A lot like Holly Short when he was younger; a book states that Holly Short had recently beat the speed record that had been set 80 years prior by Julius Root. Julius Root hates when Foaly called him by his first name. Julius Root also had a brother, Turnball Root, the main antagonist in The Atlantis Complex . A minor antagonist in the first novel, Cudgeon was an ex-LEP lieutenant who was humiliated by Commander Julius Root and had
1708-458: A massive "fish" which was many-horned or many-armed. The author also distinguished this from a sea-serpent . The kraken was described as a many-headed and clawed creature by Egede (1741)[1729], who stated it was equivalent to the Icelanders' hafgufa , but the latter is commonly treated as a fabulous whale. Erik Pontoppidan (1753), who popularized the kraken to the world, noted that it
1830-414: A name-theme referencing drags. Besides kraken , the monster went under a variety of names early on, the most common after kraken being horven ("the horv"). Icelandic philologist Finnur Jónsson explained this name in 1920 as an alternative form of harv ( lit. ' harrow ' ) and conjectured that this name was suggested by the inkfish's action of seeming to plow the sea. Some of
1952-521: A ploy to win the Nobel Prize. She eventually lets go of her project and joins them after Billy Kong, her security guard, turns against her in her own home. Artemis, Holly, N°1, and Qwan, another demon warlock, travel through time and space to Hybras, which Artemis had planned to get rid of with the live bomb Billy Kong had given Holly to annihilate the demons in Hybras, due to his belief that his brother
2074-546: A prelude to the grand finale." The Last Guardian , the eighth and final novel of the series, received favorable reviews from Kirkus Reviews , Entertainment Weekly , and The Irish Times , also winning the 2012 Irish Book Award in the "Irish Children's Book – Senior" category. In 2010 Artemis Fowl was selected by readers as the favorite Puffin Books title of all time, which Colfer described as his "proudest professional moment." In 2001 plans were announced for
2196-641: A ransom of one ton of gold to exploit the magical Fairy People and restore his family's fortune. The Artemis Fowl series, alternatively titled the First Cycle of The Fowl Adventures , introduces Artemis as a villain and the Peoples' enemy, but as the books progress, Artemis's character develops and changes. As an anti-villain , he assists the People and a reluctant Short in resolving conflicts with worldwide ramifications. His moral compass develops throughout
2318-492: A relieved Holly kisses him but turns neutral once Artemis admits he lied to her regarding the disease his mother "got from Holly". Things get more complicated when Opal Koboi is revealed to be controlling the Extinctionists and feeding on the brain fluids of many extremely rare animals. These fluids grant her special abilities and extraordinary prowess in certain fields (particularly the magical). The chase finally leads to
2440-415: A reward. Colfer summed up the first book as " Die Hard with fairies." Critics call the series "the new Harry Potter ," although Colfer stated in 2001 that he disagreed. Kate Kellaway of The Observer called the first book "a smart, amusing one-off. It flashes with hi-tech invention – as if Colfer were as much an inspired boffin as a writer". Time magazine said of the book, " Artemis Fowl
2562-530: A rivalry with Opal Koboi, which she sporadically mentions throughout her dialogue. Opal is a deranged, paranoid genius pixie whose dream is world domination and the destruction of the LEP. A prodigy, she built Koboi Laboratories, a technology company, which she used to crush her father's company out of spite. Opal is featured in several of the Artemis Fowl books as the main antagonist. She detests Foaly, as he won
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#17327720163992684-415: A science competition in college over her, and she believes the judges chose Foaly instead just because he was male. However, she became Artemis' archenemy after he and Holly foiled her plans numerous times. In The Opal Deception , she creates a clone of herself to escape imprisonment, later killing Julius Root rather violently with a bomb, and framing Holly Short. In the past, it is revealed that she harvested
2806-478: A silky silfaka lemur's brain fluid as one of the steps to achieving world domination. She later kills her past self created in The Time Paradox , creating a paradox. Opal is later killed by Oro Shaydova, the leader of fairy soldiers killed in the battle of Taillte. Mulch is a kleptomaniac, criminal dwarf who has been involved in crime for four centuries. When considered with the average dwarf lifespan, he
2928-544: A stone sinker, known as krake , but also krabbe in Norwegian or krabba in Swedish ( lit. ' crab ' ). Old Norse kraki mostly corresponds to these uses in modern Icelandic , meaning, among other things, "twig" and "drag", but also "pole/stake used in pole blockages [ sv ] " and " boat hook ". Swedish SAOB gives the translations of Icelandic kraki as "thin rod with hook on it", "wooden drag with stone sinker" and "dry spruce trunk with
3050-406: A subject of sailors' superstitions and mythos , was first described in the modern era in a travelogue by Francesco Negri in 1700. This description was followed in 1734 by an account from Dano-Norwegian missionary and explorer Hans Egede , who described the kraken in detail and equated it with the hafgufa of medieval lore. However, the first description of the creature is usually credited to
3172-538: A young and careless one", which washed ashore and died in 1680 near Alstahaug Church on the island of Alsta , Norway. He observed that it had long "arms", and guessed that it must have been crawling like a snail/slug with the use of these "arms", but got lodged in the landscape during the process. 20th century malacologist Paul Bartsch conjectured this to have been a giant squid , as did literary scholar Finnur Jónsson. However, what Pontoppidan actually stated regarding what creatures he regarded as candidates for
3294-559: Is Domovoi though no one knows that besides Artemis and Juliet. He also has a little sister, Juliet, who appears in most of the books. Butler is rendered dead temporarily in The Eternity Code , but is rescued by the ingenuity of his principal and the healing powers of Holly Short. Butler's favored weapon is a treasured SIG Sauer P226 pistol chambered in 9mm Parabellum , but he often must resort to other fairy weaponry for his tasks. Due to his healing in The Eternity Code , his body
3416-583: Is a companion book to the series published 4 October 2004, which included The Seventh Dwarf and other stories. it also includes bonus material such as Artemis Fowl's School Report, exclusive interviews with Artemis, Butler, Holly, Root, Mulch, Foaly and Colfer, and text from the Fairy People's book to translate. Electronic Arts has brought the first six books in the series to the Nintendo DS and Nintendo DSi as parts in its Flips kids' range, which
3538-458: Is a handheld supercomputer that he made from stolen fairy technology left over from the Fowl Manor siege in book 1. Artemis puts Butler into a fish freezer in an emergency attempt at cryonic preservation, and he is eventually resurrected by the elf Holly Short. Mulch Diggums (under the pseudonym Mo Digence) is hired alongside Loafers McGuire by Spiro to kidnap Artemis to access the C Cube, which
3660-518: Is a series of eleven fantasy novels written by Irish author Eoin Colfer revolving around various members of the Fowl family . The first cycle, the eight-book Artemis Fowl , follows elf Lower Elements Police Reconnaissance (LEPRecon) officer Holly Short as she faces the forces of criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl II ; later on in the cycle the adversaries are forced to work together, gradually becoming firm friends/brief love interests while saving
3782-493: Is also dependent on the second time paradox, from which the reader concludes that a time paradox is always dependent on another. When everyone is gone, Artemis tells his mother the truth about everything, because Opal forgot to wipe his mother's mind. The Artemis Fowl series rose from ninth to second in the children's book section of the New York Times bestselling list, and remained there for some time after it achieved
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3904-477: Is also known as Echte Kraken ("true krakens") in German. In Icelandic , octopoda is instead named kolkrabbar ("coal crabs") after the crab nickname, the common octopus simply named kolkrabbi . The Swedish diminutive form kräkel , a word for a branchy/spiny piece of wood, have given name to a variety of sea dwelling plants in Swedish, most notably furcellaria lumbricalis , a species of red algae . There
4026-412: Is also the morphological derivation kräkla (dialectal Norwegian : krekle ), meaning crooked piece of wood, which has given name to primitive forms of whisks and beaters (cooking), made from the tops of trees by keeping a row of twigs as the beating element, resembling the appearance of a cephalopod , but also crosiers and shepherd's crooks . Shetlandic krekin for "whale", a taboo word ,
4148-412: Is buried beneath the rubble. When a Lower Elements Police team search for her, they find she has disappeared. Artemis debriefs the others and finds that his mother knows everything that happened to her. Although 14-year-old Artemis Fowl had originally promised not to, No. 1 proceeded to mind-wipe the 10-year-old Artemis because the young demon warlock did not know about the promise. The 10-year-old Artemis
4270-504: Is cold, cynical, and often outright ruthless in his manipulation of people for his own ends. Following his father's presumed death at the hands of the Russian Mafia, and his mother's subsequent descent into madness, Artemis stopped attending his boarding school, assumed control of the Fowl criminal empire, and embarked on a crime spree to restore the family fortune and fund Arctic expeditions to rescue his father. His investigation into
4392-414: Is encrypted by an Eternity Code only Artemis knows how to decrypt. Holly agrees to help, but with the condition that Artemis and his allies are to be mind-wiped. With the help of the dwarf and Butler's sister, Juliet, they raid Spiro Needle, the building housing Spiro's company, and retrieve the C Cube again. The book ends with the fairies and Foaly mind-wiping the three humans, and Artemis gives Mulch Diggums
4514-468: Is famed for his intelligence; he claims to have the "highest IQ tested in Europe", but is also known for a lack of coordination and athletic ability. Throughout the series, he learns profound morals from the Fairy People and becomes more compassionate and trustworthy, but still maintains much of his intelligence. Because of the time travel in The Lost Colony , his legal age is older than his real age. Butler
4636-526: Is followed by Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex . Angeline Fowl, Artemis Fowl's mother contracts a debilitating disease, which Artemis worsens by trying to use magic. Artemis desperately contacts Captain Holly Short and No. 1 , in hopes that they will be able to shed some new light on his mother's condition. They determine Angeline is suffering from Spelltropy, a fairy disease that
4758-464: Is his daughter, Belinda. She then convinces Giovanni to send a probe into the ground, which could lead to the uncovering of the fairy world, thrusting the fairy city of Haven into human clutches. In the process of stopping her, Commander Root is killed and the mind-wiped Artemis and Butler are saved from her bio-bomb. The two have their memories restored from the medallion, and Mulch, Artemis, Holly, and Butler thwart Opal Koboi yet again. Artemis Fowl and
4880-550: Is in fact the Artemis from the past. The older Artemis, returned at the same time, sneaks up to Opal and tranquilizes her. Despite his mental resistance, Butler was mesmerised by Opal and takes out Holly and No. 1. When Butler is ordered by Koboi to take out the younger Artemis, he fights Koboi's mesmer and has a heart attack, but is revived by Artemis with a defibrillator . Opal recovers quickly and flees; however, realizing that Artemis and his forces have been significantly weakened in
5002-510: Is its ability to rise above predictability. The characters change and grow more complex with each book... This combination of ingenious plot and authentic characters who evolve over time is a pleasure to read and leaves readers begging for more." There is also a special limited paperback edition including the short story "LEPrecon," originally published in The Artemis Fowl Files . Artemis Fowl The Fowl Adventures
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5124-412: Is listed as etymologically related. In Norwegian sailor folklore, kraken ("the krake " or "the crookie"), also known as horven (among others), is a legendary sea monster said to appear in the sea between Norway and Iceland . It is said that when fishermen row out a few miles ( Scandinavian miles ) from the coast on a hot summer's day in a calm, and according to normal calculations should find
5246-494: Is not that old. He once was a mining dwarf, but later decided that stealing from Mud Men (humans) suited him much better. Because he has stolen from Mud Men, Mulch no longer has the significant magic powers of the usual fairy, but he has retained some aspect of the gift of tongues as "all tongues are based on Gnommish if you trace them back far enough", and has even shown his ability to speak 'American dog' in The Arctic Incident . He insists that humans were stealing from fairy-kind and
5368-424: Is older than he should be. Holly is a determined, forthright elf and the only female captain of LEPrecon, the reconnaissance division of the LEP. Holly is three feet tall and slender, with nut-brown skin and auburn hair. In the first book, she is kidnapped by Artemis and held for ransom, but over the course of the series they slowly become friends--and by the end of the series, best friends. She helped Artemis save
5490-428: Is outraged. Artemis redeems himself by giving Holly a chance to talk with Commander Root, who is dead in their time. Holly becomes neutral to Artemis, then thanks him. They commandeer a shuttle and fly it to Fez, Morocco, where the younger Artemis will trade the lemur to the Extinctionists for a hundred thousand euros. The money will go to an Arctic expedition, to help Artemis find his missing father. Instead of capturing
5612-410: Is pacy, playful, and very funny, an inventive mix of myth and modernity, magic and crime", while The New York Times Book Review said that "Colfer has done enormously, explosively well" in writing a book that could be accurately described as " Die Hard with fairies". The Guardian gave a favorable review to The Atlantis Complex , the seventh book in the series, but noted "it is also clearly
5734-440: Is spread through the use of magic, and can only be cured by the brain fluid of the silky sifaka lemur of Madagascar . Unfortunately, the lemur is extinct, due to a ruthless deal Artemis made almost 8 years ago with a group called the Extinctionists. Foaly tells him that his mother will die without the cure. Artemis pleads for No.1 to open up the time stream, allowing him to save the lemur, and thus his mother. Foaly argues against
5856-715: Is suggesting this is an ancient example of kraken , as a modern commentator analyzes. Pontoppidan then declared the kraken to be a type of polypus (=octopus) or "starfish", particularly the kind Gessner called Stella Arborescens , later identifiable as one of the northerly ophiurids or possibly more specifically as one of the Gorgonocephalids or even the genus Gorgonocephalus (though no longer regarded as family/genus under order Ophiurida , but under Phrynophiurida in current taxonomy). This ancient arbor (admixed rota and thus made eight-armed) seems like an octopus at first blush but with additional data,
5978-431: Is the Fowl family's loyal manservant and Artemis's bodyguard and friend, accompanying him around the world on his adventures. He is the third-most skilled martial artist on the planet (the first is a monk on a Pacific Island and the second is his uncle), a formidable marksman and firearms expert, and has immense experience of the criminal underworld, often providing help to Artemis through his many contacts. His first name
6100-612: Is then sent back in time by No. 1. Nonetheless, he retains an interest in fairies that will set the original events of the series' first book in motion. It is then revealed that in addition to the initial time 'paradox' that occurs when Artemis goes back in time to save the Lemur, another (second) paradox exists, because Artemis' interest in fairies sets off a series of events, which have originated from his initial interest in fairies. In this way, both these events are dependent on each other. The series of events that inspires his interest in fairies
6222-517: The pieuvre octopus of Guernsey lore, which he identified with the kraken of legend. This led to Jules Verne 's depiction of the kraken, although Verne did not distinguish between squid and octopus. Linnaeus may have indirectly written about the kraken. Linnaeus wrote about the Microcosmus genus (an animal with various other organisms or growths attached to it, comprising a colony). Subsequent authors have referred to Linnaeus's writing, and
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#17327720163996344-546: The Disney+ streaming service on June 12, 2020 to a poor reception, before being removed from the service on May 26, 2023. In the first book, Artemis Fowl , pitched as " Die Hard with fairies", twelve-year-old child prodigy Artemis Fowl II and his bodyguard Butler kidnap Holly Short , an elf and a captain of the Lower Elements Police Reconnaissance force (LEPrecon), holding her for
6466-589: The Teufelwal ('devil whale') of the Germans follow in the list. It is in his chapter on the "colossal octopus" that Montfort provides the contemporary eyewitness example of a group of sailors who encounter the giant off the coast of Angola , who afterwards deposited a pictorial commemoration of the event as a votive offering at St. Thomas's chapel in Saint-Malo , France. Based on that picture, Montfort drew
6588-400: The "colossal octopus" with the enduring image of it attacking a ship, and the "kraken octopod", deemed to be the largest organism in zoology. Denys-Montfort matched his "colossal" with Pliny's tale of the giant polypus that attacked ships-wrecked people, while making correspondence between his kraken and Pliny's monster called the arbor marina . Finnur Jónsson (1920) also favored identifying
6710-508: The "kraken" by American zoologist Packard . The Frenchman Montfort used the obsolete scientific name Sepia octopodia but called it a poulpe , which means "octopus" to this day; meanwhile the English-speaking naturalists had developed the convention of calling the octopus "eight-armed cuttle-fish", as did Packard and Hamilton, even though modern-day speakers are probably unfamiliar with that name. Having accepted as fact that
6832-509: The Danish bishop Pontoppidan (1753). Pontoppidan was the first to describe the kraken as an octopus (polypus) of tremendous size, and wrote that it had a reputation for pulling down ships. The French malacologist Denys-Montfort , of the 19th century, is also known for his pioneering inquiries into the existence of gigantic octopuses ( Octupi ). The great man-killing octopus entered French fiction when novelist Victor Hugo (1866) introduced
6954-551: The Lost Colony involves bringing the demon island Hybras back from "Limbo" with the help of N°1, a powerful demon warlock. Artemis, Butler, Holly, Mulch, and Foaly reunite after Artemis encounters a demon from the island Hybras, and Holly and Mulch capture the pixie fish smuggler Doodah Day. Foaly tells them after the Battle of Taillte, the war for land against fairy and human, the demon fairy family sent themselves out of time on
7076-506: The announcement. On 12 September 2017, Disney announced that the film adaptation would be released on 9 August 2019. It was also announced to be based on the first two books in the series. It was announced on 11 October 2017 that Disney removed Harvey Weinstein as the producer of the film as well as terminating its production with The Weinstein Company following a sexual misconduct controversy involving Weinstein . On 20 December 2017, it
7198-463: The battle, she returns. Artemis takes "the lemur" and flies away from the Manor grounds in a plane, luring Opal away. In the ensuing chase, Opal exhibits the astonishing strength she has won in her research on endangered animals, pulverizing entire sections of the plane with her fists, and eventually forcing Artemis to crash land on the coastline, breaking his collarbone in the process. Artemis escapes from
7320-409: The book series in the film, with Fowl switched from antagonist to protagonist , and Short being relegated from protagonist to supporting character . McDonnell's casting was also criticised as whitewashing due to Short being physically described in the book series as having nut-brown skin of a coffee complexion. The casting of Nonso Anozie as Butler was also criticised for several reasons: that
7442-458: The bottom, which can even appear as high as ship's masts. After a while, the kraken gives in to sinking again, and you then have to be careful not to run into the suction vortex that is formed. The first description of the krake as " sciu-crak " was given by Italian writer Negri in Viaggio settentrionale (Padua, 1700), a travelogue about Scandinavia. The book describes the sciu-crak as
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#17327720163997564-479: The catch was so plentiful (hence the saying "You must have fished on Kraken" ). However, there was also the danger to seamen of being engulfed by the whirlpool when it submerged, and this whirlpool was compared to Norway's famed Moskstraumen often known as "the Maelstrom". Pontoppidan also described the destructive potential of the giant beast: "it is said that if [the creature's arms] were to lay hold of
7686-435: The character is described as Eurasian who can pass as Japanese and Russian in the book series, and that the character's physical description of terrifying anyone in his presence, combined with his backstory of his family having served the Fowl family for centuries and Anozie's casting, embodies several stereotypes of African Americans , in particular the "scary black man" and "black servant" tropes. On 26 May 2023,
7808-499: The crooked, stripped branches still attached". Kraken is assumed to have been named figuratively after the meaning “crooked tree” or its derivate meaning “drag”, as trunks with crooked branches or outgrowths, and especially drags, wooden or not, readily conjure up the image of a cephalopod or similar. This idea seems to first have been notably remarked by Icelandic philologist Finnur Jónsson in 1920. A synonym for kraken has also been krabbe (see below), which further indicates
7930-463: The earth and that he is simply taking them back or repossessing the items. In the early books, he assisted the LEP against Artemis Fowl, although later, he sides with Artemis Fowl. Eventually, when the fairies and Artemis are on stable ground, he joins forces with the Fairy People on many adventures, acting as an LEP helper at the beginning of The Time Paradox . Julius Root commanded the LEPrecon and
8052-492: The end though, Pontoppidan again appears ambivalent, stating "Polype, or Star-fish [belongs to] the whole genus of Kors-Trold ['cross troll'], ... some that are much larger, .. even the very largest ... of the ocean", and concluding that "this Krake must be of the Polypus kind". By "this Krake" here, he apparently meant in particular the giant polypus octopus of Carteia from Pliny, Book IX, Ch. 30 (though he only used
8174-520: The film was removed from Disney+ as part of a Disney+ and Hulu purge. Kraken The kraken ( / ˈ k r ɑː k ən / ) is a legendary sea monster of enormous size, per its etymology something akin to a cephalopod , said to appear in the sea between Norway and Iceland . It is believed that the legend of the Kraken may have originated from sightings of giant squid , which may grow to 12–15 m (40–50 feet) in length. The kraken, as
8296-571: The first female reconnaissance officer of the Lower Elements Police (LEP), after she is kidnapped by criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl II for a large ransom of 24-karat gold with the help of his bodyguard Domovoi Butler (and Butler's younger sister Juliet ) in order to restore the Fowl family fortune. After multiple failed attempts by the LEP to undermine his plot, the book concludes with Artemis finally releasing Holly, in exchange for having his mother cured of madness and half of
8418-408: The first gate, which releases the spirits of the warriors into the living world. The warriors begin to possess other people and animals around them, including corpses, animals, Juliet Butler, and Artemis's toddler brothers, Myles and Beckett. After escaping Opal and the possessed beings, they attempt to stop Opal from opening the second gate, which will unleash the power of Danu destroying every human on
8540-446: The first time by that name" in the writings of Erik Pontoppidan , bishop of Bergen , in his Det første Forsøg paa Norges naturlige Historie "The First Attempt at [a] Natural History of Norway" (1752–53), a German source qualified Pontoppidan to be the first source on kraken available to be read in the German language. A description of the kraken had been anticipated by Hans Egede . Denys-Montfort (1801) published on two giants,
8662-525: The future. However Opal follows them into the time stream, escaping into the future. She takes over Angeline's body and pretends that she was Artemis' mother, but reveals herself when Artemis is about to inject the Spelltropy cure into her system. She also reveals that she caused the resembling symptoms to Spelltropy and made the whole incident herself (she dropped out of the time stream 2 days early and took control). As Koboi gloats, Artemis reveals that he
8784-452: The general category of "sea spectre" ( Danish : søe-trold og [ søe ]- spøgelse ), adding that "the Draw" ( Danish : Drauen , definite form) was another being within that sea spectre classification. Egede also made the aforementioned identification of krake as being the same as the hafgufa of the Icelanders, though he seemed to have obtained the information indirectly from
8906-688: The general nickname " ozaena " 'stinkard' for the octopus kind). In 1802, the French malacologist Pierre Denys de Montfort recognized the existence of two "species" of giant octopuses in Histoire Naturelle Générale et Particulière des Mollusques , an encyclopedic description of mollusks. The "colossal giant" was supposedly the same as Pliny 's "monstrous polypus", which was a man-killer which ripped apart ( Latin : distrahit ) shipwrecked people and divers. Montfort accompanied his publication with an engraving representing
9028-399: The giant octopus poised to destroy a three-masted ship. Whereas the "kraken octopus", was the most gigantic animal on the planet in the writer's estimation, dwarfing Pliny's "colossal octopus"/"monstrous polypus", and identified here as the aforementioned Pliny's monster, called the arbor marinus . Montfort also listed additional wondrous fauna as identifiable with the kraken. There
9150-503: The goblin rebellion, with the help of Mulch Diggums half-way through. In the end, to fulfill their part of the agreement, they help Artemis find his father, who had been missing for the past two or three years. Artemis Fowl and the Eternity Code covers Jon Spiro 's theft of the fictional C Cube and its recovery. Jon Spiro is an American businessman who has his bodyguard Arno Blunt kill Butler and steals Artemis's C Cube, which
9272-403: The idea, but due to Artemis' lying to Holly, saying that she infected Angeline with Spelltropy, Holly agrees to help Artemis immediately to make up for it, and Foaly gives in. They arrive nearly eight years earlier in Artemis' study. The time stream causes Artemis to become much hairier while Holly is physically reduced to an adolescent. Artemis assures Holly that the past Butler will quietly slip
9394-400: The island Hybras, and that on their island their time can be anything on ours. The time spell is crumbling, and demons are appearing on earth without warning. If the humans discover the demons, they will inevitably uncover the rest of the fairies. Artemis and his friends go after the demon warlock N°1, who is kidnapped by child prodigy Minerva Paradizo. Minerva intends to present N°1 to humans as
9516-466: The kraken as an inkfish (squid/octopus) on etymological grounds. The krake (English: kraken) was described by Hans Egede in his Det gamle Grønlands nye perlustration (1729; Ger. t. 1730; tr. Description of Greenland , 1745), drawing from the fables of his native region, the Nordlandene len [ no ] of Norway, then under Danish rule. According to his Norwegian informants,
9638-520: The kraken is quite complicated. Pontoppidan did tentatively identify the kraken to be a sort of giant crab, stating that the alias krabben best describes its characteristics. However, further down in his writing, compares the creature to some creature(s) from Pliny, Book IX, Ch. 4: the sea-monster called arbor , with tree-branch like multiple arms, complicated by the fact that Pontoppidan adds another of Pliny's creature called rota with eight arms, and conflates them into one organism. Pontoppidan
9760-411: The kraken is rising, it is necessary to row away for all the boat can take. After a few minutes, the beast can then be seen lifting the upper part of its body above the surface of the water, which for a quarter of a mile (ca 1.5 mi.) in circumference appears as a collection of skerries , covered with swaying, seaweed-like growths. Finally, a few shining tentacles rise up in the air, increasingly thicker at
9882-496: The kraken's body measured many miles in length, and when it surfaced it seemed to cover the whole sea, further described as "having many heads and a number of claws". With its claws it captured its prey, which included ships, men, fish, and animals, carrying its victims back into the depths. Egede conjectured that the krake was equatable to the monster that the Icelanders call hafgufa , but as he had not obtained anything related to him through an informant, he had difficulty describing
10004-410: The largest man-of-war , they would pull it down to the bottom". Kraken purportedly exclusively fed for several months, then spent the following few months emptying its excrement, and the thickened clouded water attracted fish. Later Henry Lee commented that the supposed excreta may have been the discharge of ink by a cephalopod. Pontoppidan wrote of a possible specimen of the krake, "perhaps
10126-411: The last of which Artemis sold to a group named the Extinctionists when he was 10 to procure money to fund the expedition to search for his father. N°1 sends Artemis and Holly to the past, where Artemis must battle his former self to recover the last silky sifaka lemur before the younger Artemis kills it in a business transaction with Damon Kronski, the leader of the Extinctionists. When Artemis almost dies,
10248-410: The latter. According to the lore of Norwegian fishermen, they could mount upon the fish-attracting kraken as if it were a sand-bank ( Fiske-Grund 'fishing shoal '), but if they ever had the misfortune to capture the kraken, getting it entangled on their hooks, the only way to avoid destruction was to pronounce its name to make it go back to its depths. Egede also wrote that the krake fell under
10370-437: The lead krak as a diminutive form of krok , Norwegian and Swedish for 'hook/crook' ( krake thus roughly translate to "crookie"). With time, "krake" have come to mean any severed tree stem or trunk with crooked outgrowths, in turn giving name to objects and tools based on such, notably for the subject matter, primitive anchors and drags ( grapnel anchors ) made from severed spruce tops or branchy bush trunks outfitted with
10492-487: The lemur into the room (to avoid Angeline seeing it) and that they will simply be able to leave. Butler however, does not act according to Artemis' predictions. He tranquillises the two, and locks them in the trunk of the Fowl Bentley. Artemis and Holly escape with the help of Mulch Diggums, a kleptomaniac dwarf who has partnered up with Artemis in the future. After following his younger self to an animal park to retrieve
10614-472: The lemur, Artemis breaks into the wrong cage and is attacked by a gorilla, and Holly is forced into action. She heals his wounds with magic, and in a giddy haze of relief after realising he almost died, she kisses him. Afterward, they save the lemur from Rathdown Park, but are forced at gunpoint to release it to young Artemis. While hurrying to the shuttleport in Tara, a guilty Artemis confesses his lie to Holly, who
10736-512: The lemur, Holly captures herself, and sold by the younger Artemis to the Extinctionists, who plan to execute her by way of an execution pit lined with flamethrowers. Older Artemis races to the rescue, but falls in the execution pit. There he discovers that the "flames" are holograms, and meets his old nemesis Opal Koboi, who has put the mesmer on the leader of the Extinctionists to help her collect rare species for her research. Artemis escapes, Holly finds him, and they fly back to Fowl Manor to return to
10858-422: The maniacal genius pixie Opal Koboi and officer Briar Cudgeon helping her out. The LEP originally suspects Artemis of orchestrating the goblin rebellion, but he is cleared of all suspicion after being inspected with a Retimager. Holly Short , an LEP captain; Julius Root, the LEP commander; and Foaly , a centaur and the main technology supervisor for the LEP, make an agreement with Artemis to work together to stop
10980-579: The medieval Norwegian treatise, the Speculum Regale (or King's Mirror , c. 1250 ). Later, David Crantz [ de ] in Historie von Grönland ( History of Greenland , 1765) also reported kraken and the hafgufa to be synonymous. An English translator of the King's Mirror in 1917 opted to translate hafgufa as kraken . The hafgufa (described as the largest of
11102-517: The misfortune of having a terrible-looking face, the result of illegal mind-boosting liquid colliding with tranquilizer Julius Root used in the first novel. Looking for revenge, Cudgeon teams up with Opal Koboi in The Arctic Incident . Their plan suddenly goes wrong when LEP technical consultant Foaly inserts a video in Koboi Laboratories to expose Briar Cudgeon's confessions to treachery to Opal. Enraged by this, Opal attacks Cudgeon, and in
11224-413: The ophiurid starfish now appears bishop's preferential choice. The ophiurid starfish seems further fortified when he notes that "starfish" called "Medusa's heads" ( caput medusæ ; pl. capita medusæ ) are considered to be "the young of the great sea-krake" by local lore. Pontoppidan ventured the 'young krakens' may rather be the eggs ( ova ) of the starfish. Pontopiddan was satisfied that "Medusa's heads"
11346-649: The original series, Artemis Fowl and the Last Guardian , was released on 10 July 2012. Opal Koboi opens the Berserker's Gate, a portal located on the Fowl Estate, in which dwell the spirits of fairy soldiers, the last victims of the Battle of Taillte, the final blow in the war that sent the Fairy People underground. Artemis, after his last session of being cured of Atlantis Complex, rushes to stop her along with Holly Short and Butler. They fail, and Opal opens
11468-500: The past and future Artemises reaching an agreement, whereupon Artemis and Holly are teleported to the future, while past Artemis is mind-wiped. Near to the ending, Opal is revealed to have possessed Angeline Fowl. At the close of the book, past Artemis wakes from a dream with thoughts of fairies, which suggests that Artemis's time travel was the catalyst for his kidnapping scheme in Artemis Fowl. Artemis contracts Atlantis Complex,
11590-422: The persistently accepted notion that the kraken originated from the hafgufa . Erik Pontoppidan's Det første Forsøg paa Norges naturlige Historie (1752, actually volume 2, 1753) made several claims regarding kraken, including the notion that the creature was sometimes mistaken for a group of small islands with fish swimming in-between, Norwegian fishermen often took the risk of trying to fish over kraken, since
11712-495: The place on the week of the US release. Stuart Kelly commented, "Why Harry Potter became a phenomenon while Artemis Fowl only remains a huge sensation is a conundrum for future ages to ponder... Colfer doesn't handle time-travel, he revels in it." VOYA remarked, "Colfer delivers another great story filled with action, drama, and clever plot twists that will please new readers as well as series fans. What sets this series apart, however,
11834-399: The process of being brought back in time, they have swapped an eye. Artemis now has one hazel eye and one blue eye. Same with Holly. The book ends with Holly finding out that Mulch has recruited Doodah Day, and Artemis finds out that he is the brother of toddlers. Artemis's mother, Angeline Fowl, becomes ill with Spelltropy, and the only cure lies in the brain fluids of the silky sifaka lemur,
11956-407: The project as executive producers. In September 2015, Variety reported that Kenneth Branagh had been hired to direct the film for Disney, with Irish playwright Conor McPherson as screenwriter and Judy Hofflund as an executive producer. Eoin Colfer confirmed this in a video to Artemis Fowl Confidential, and spoke with RTE Radio 1 about meeting Branagh several times to discuss this prior to
12078-485: The ransomed gold that he had persuaded the fairies to give him restored to them, manipulating the LEP's honor system and time-stop to prevent them from killing him afterward. Artemis Fowl and the Arctic Incident is the second book of the series. It follows the rescue of Artemis's father Artemis Fowl I from the Russian Mafia, alongside the battle against the B'wa Kell goblin gang who have allied themselves with
12200-459: The same fate. He proposed, by process of elimination, that such an event could only be accounted for as the work of many octopuses. But it has been pointed out the sinkings have simply been explained by the presence of a storm, and there appeared a surviving witness that stated they ran into a hurricane. Montfort's involving octopuses as complicit has been characterized as "reckless falsity". It has also been noted that Montfort once quipped to
12322-533: The sea monsters, inhabiting the Greenland Sea ) from the King's Mirror continues to be identified with the kraken in some scholarly writings, and if this equivalence were allowed, the kraken-hafgufa's range would extend, at least legendarily, to waters approaching Helluland ( Baffin Island , Canada), as described in Örvar-Odds saga . The description of the hafgufa in the King's Mirror suggests
12444-455: The second gate. Foaly sends the clone of Opal that she created in the 4th book, and using her hand he is able to make the clone close the gates since the magic recognizes the clone's DNA as Opal's. All the fairies in the circle are drawn to the afterlife, and as Artemis has one of Holly's eyes from book five, Artemis is also sent to the afterlife. However, Artemis's humanity and sheer willpower enables his spirit to stay on Earth. Foaly prepares
12566-415: The series was released on 5 November 2019. The Fowl Twins Deny All Charges is the second book in the series, and was released on 20 October 2020. The Fowl Twins Get What They Deserve is the third book in the series, and was released on 19 October 2021. Artemis Fowl: The Seventh Dwarf is a short story written for World Book Day set between the first and second books. The Artemis Fowl Files
12688-506: The series. The Fowl Twins series, alternatively titled the Second Cycle of The Fowl Adventures , set five years later, follows Artemis' younger twin brothers as they live out their house arrest under the supervision of "pixel" Lazuli Heitz, an elf-pixie hybrid, and NANNI , an artificial intelligence based on Holly's and Artemis' brainwaves. Artemis Fowl is the first book in the Artemis Fowl series. It follows Holly Short,
12810-425: The struggle, they smash into a pipeline containing reignited plasma, which violently fries Cudgeon to death, and gruesomely incapacitates Opal. Colfer has said in interviews that the series is about Artemis growing up. Themes of greed, trust, and the difference between good and evil are also present in the books. Colfer wanted to end the series with a simple choice between being kind without reward or being unkind for
12932-450: The supernatural eventually leads him into contact with the People in the first book. Due to a strict upbringing, and a lack of any intellectual equals to ground him, Artemis is socially awkward, his best friend and bodyguard Butler being one of the few individuals whom Artemis trusts. He is very pale with raven-black hair and blue eyes. In The Lost Colony , Holly Short and he switch eyes, leaving him with one blue eye and one hazel eye. Artemis
13054-492: The surface. While doing so, they (reluctantly) battle Artemis's possessed toddler brother Myles, who reveals to them Opal's plan after the fairy warrior spirit left his body. Artemis and his friends fail to destroy the second gate with a laser he created, and Mulch saves them from possessed pirate corpses, causing the spirits of fairy warriors to leave their bodies to the afterlife. They then enter Fowl Manor, where Artemis decides to sacrifice himself in order to stop Opal from opening
13176-538: The synonyms of krake given by Erik Pontoppidan were, in Danish : Since the 19th century, the word krake have, beyond the monster, given name to the cephalopod order Octopoda in Swedish ( krakar ) and German ( Kraken ), resulting in many species of octopuses partly named such, such as the common octopus ( Octopus vulgaris ), which is named jättekrake ("giant kraken") in Swedish and Gewöhnlicher Krake ("common kraken") in German. The family Octopodidae
13298-519: The weaponry, wings, and other technical gadgets that the LEP use, such as the 'Iris Cam'. His sarcasm and talkative nature often annoy LEP officers, though his greatest pleasure outside of his engineering is aggravating the notoriously bad-tempered Commander Root. He 'hitches' or marries a centaur named Caballine in The Lost Colony while Captain Short and Artemis are in Limbo, and apparently has foals. He has
13420-475: The world on numerous occasions. Holly holds a disregard for the rules and orders given to her. She is also one of the best pilots in LEPrecon. Foaly is a centaur, technical genius, and computer geek. He works for the LEP, the fairy authorities, and is in charge of preventing humankind from discovering the fairy civilization. His intelligence makes him paranoiac, which causes him to wear a foil hat to "protect him from human mind-probing technology". He designs most of
13542-419: The world. The second cycle, the three-book The Fowl Twins , received commercial success and positive critical reception. It has also originated graphic novel adaptations. In 2010, Artemis Fowl was selected by readers and voters as their favorite Puffin Books title of all time. A film adaptation based on the first novel was in the process of development by Disney from 2016, and eventually released on
13664-460: The wreckage of the plane and runs to the shore, ascending a rope bridge and crossing over two large boulders. Opal relentlessly pursues him, eventually obtaining the lemur, only to discover that it's not actually a lemur, but Artemis' little brother's play-thing, Professor Primate. Artemis shoots the boulder which Opal is standing on and reveals it to be the shell of a kraken that was unknown to anyone except Artemis himself. The shell explodes and Opal
13786-423: The writings of Bartholin 's cetus called hafgufa , and Paullini 's monstrum marinum as "krakens". That said, the claim that Linnaeus used the word "kraken" in the margin of a later edition of Systema Naturae has not been confirmed. The English word "kraken" (in the sense of sea monster) derives from Norwegian kraken or krakjen , which are the definite forms of krake ("the krake"). According to
13908-548: Was Paullini 's monstrum marinum glossed as a sea crab ( German : Seekrabbe ), which a later biologist has suggested to be one of the Hyas spp. It was also described as resembling Gessner's Cancer heracleoticus crab alleged to appear off the Finnish coast. von Bergen 's " bellua marina omnium vastissima " (meaning 'vastest-of-all sea-beast'), namely the trolwal ('ogre whale', 'troll whale') of Northern Europe, and
14030-590: Was announced that Irish newcomer Ferdia Shaw had been cast as Artemis Fowl II, alongside Judi Dench as Commander Root, Josh Gad as Mulch Diggums, Lara McDonnell as Captain Holly Short, and Nonso Anozie as Butler. Principal photography began in March ;2018 with filming in England, Northern Ireland, and Ho Chi Minh City . In May 2019, the film's originally scheduled release date of 9 August 2019
14152-481: Was assumed to be in development hell until 2011, when it was reported that Jim Sheridan was interested in directing the movie, with Saoirse Ronan attached to portray Holly Short. In July 2013, Walt Disney Pictures announced that an Artemis Fowl film covering the events of the first and second novels of the series would be produced by Disney and The Weinstein Company , with the screenplay by Michael Goldenberg . Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal signed onto
14274-561: Was delayed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures to 29 May 2020, as part of a change to their release schedule, while Colin Farrell was announced to be portraying Artemis Fowl I. The film was pulled completely on 3 April 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic , and instead debuted on Disney+ , 12 June 2020. Upon the film's release, the film was criticised for the removal of the character arcs of both Artemis Fowl II and Holly Short from
14396-511: Was in charge of all activities related to the tracking of those who leave fairy civilization, to prevent them making contact with humans. Known for his ruddy face (hence his nickname, "Beetroot") and extremely short temper, he led the LEPrecon on missions until Koboi killed him with an explosive in The Opal Deception and framed Holly Short. He usually despised Holly's disregard for rules and orders. However, Root also seems to have been
14518-406: Was killed by a gang of demons. In Hybras, the pack leader Leon Abbot (N'Zall) and his army of demons fight Artemis and his friends. They knock Leon unconscious and create a bomb explosion powerful enough for them to use its energy – converting it into enough magic to send the island back to earth, where three years have passed because of the time spell. Unfortunately, Holly and Artemis find out that in
14640-410: Was multiple-armed according to lore, and conjectured it to be a giant sea-crab, starfish or a polypus (octopus). Still, the bishop is considered to have been instrumental in sparking interest for the kraken in the English-speaking world, as well as becoming regarded as the authority on sea-serpents and krakens. Although it has been stated that the kraken ( Norwegian : krake ) was "described for
14762-494: Was released on 4 December 2009. The audiobooks were narrated by Nathaniel Parker . Adrian Dunbar and Enn Reitel narrated certain versions from different audiobook companies. In November 2020, Eoin Colfer indicated interest in bringing the franchise to another medium, such as a musical . In November 2021, Colfer revealed he had thought about writing a " superviolent " follow-up to the Artemis Fowl series inspired by Old Man Logan , following an older Artemis as he becomes
14884-404: Was the same as the foregoing starfish ( Stella arborensis of old), but "Medusa's heads" were something found ashore aplenty across Norway according to von Bergen , who thought it absurd these could be young "Kraken" since that would mean the seas would be full of (the adults). The "Medusa's heads" appear to be a Gorgonocephalid, with Gorgonocephalus spp. being tentatively suggested. In
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