Reception and Legacy
In her review of Night Watch, A. S. Byatt noted the lack of recent appearances of Rincewind and the more grim presentation of the Witches and Ankh-Morpork as signs of Pratchett's imagination getting darker.
Release 1.1.0 of VLC media player was codenamed "The Luggage." and release 2.0 was "Twoflower", the character that gave The Luggage to Rincewind (in "The Colour of Magic"). Rincewind, along with Nanny Ogg, Lord Voldemort and Albus Dumbledore, is due to be put on first-class Royal Mail stamps in March 2011. Paul Whitelaw, writing for The Scotsman, felt that David Jason was "clearly several decades too old" to be Rincewind in the film adaption of The Colour of Magic.
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