![]() ![]() So I started off wondering: What is this tower? What does it mean? And I decided that everybody keeps a Dark Tower in their heart that they want to find.” 2. Nobody knows who wrote it, and nobody knows what the Dark Tower is. “Browning never says what that tower is, but it’s based on an even older tradition about Childe Roland that’s lost in antiquity. King explained his fascination with the poem in a 1989 interview with the Castle Rock News: The author first read the poem during his sophomore year at the University of Maine, and it stuck with him. The first volume of the Dark Tower series, The Gunslinger, drew inspiration from Robert Browning’s poem “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came” and King even borrowed the name for his heroic gunslinger Roland Deschain. ROBERT BROWNING’S POETRY INSPIRED THE SERIES. Stephen King’s world-traversing fantasy epic is a fan favorite, but even if you’ve read all eight volumes of The Dark Tower saga and have preordered your tickets to see its big screen adaptation, which opens this weekend, you can probably pick up a few new nuggets and theories about the sweeping work. ![]()
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