With a horde of unruly fairies at her disposal, Tiffany is not alone. And she is the twentieth granddaughter of her Granny Aching: shepherdess extraordinaire, and protector of the land.

When the Spirit of Winter takes a fancy to Tiffany Aching, he wants her to stay in his gleaming, frozen world. Forever. It will take the young witch’s skill and cunning, as well as help from the legendary Granny Weatherwax and the irrepressible Wee Free Men, to survive until Spring. I Shall Wear Midnight (38th Book)Guards! Guards! (2000)". Comic Book DB. Archived from the original on 16 September 2016 . Retrieved 4 September 2016.

In The Wee Free Men, nine-year-old Tiffany Aching, a budding witch in a country that does not take kindly to witchcraft, has her first encounters with the supernatural world of Discworld. Intelligent and reasonable and practical, she takes it quite in stride - and so when her world is threatened by the invasion of monsters from the not-so-nice fairy tales, she firmly stands her ground, armed with little but a frying pan, analytical reasoning, common sense and Third Thoughts ( "And Tiffany thought: No, that was a Third Thought. I’m thinking about how I think about what I’m thinking. At least, I think so.") and supported by a rowdy clan of the Mac Nag Feegle (the titular Wee Free Men) - a race of blue-skinned six-inch-tall pesky warriors who speak in vaguely Scottish dialect and are terrified of the evil also known as Lawyers.

Three television movies were commissioned by Sky One in the late 2000s, each of which were broadcast in two parts. Terry Pratchett cameos as a minor character in all three. As a witch, Tiffany possesses First Sight, the ability to see "what is really there" (as opposed to second sight, which shows people what they think ought to be there). She also possesses Second Thoughts, which are defined as "the thoughts you think about the way you think". Whilst other witches are said to have this trait as well, Tiffany also recognizes some of her thoughts as Third Thoughts (the thoughts one thinks about the way one thinks about the way one thinks), and Fourth Thoughts (the thoughts one thinks about the way one thinks about the way one thinks about the way one thinks). All these thoughts sometimes cause Tiffany to walk into door frames. As the witch of the Chalk she also has powers and authority not unlike a Justice of the Peace; she is able to perform binding marriage ceremonies, (which she does for Roland and Leticia) and judge and deal out punishment(s) to the deserving. The most important person in her life was her late grandmother Granny Aching (who refered to her as "Jiggit").

Gideon Haberkorn, Verena Reinhardt (2011). "Magic Adolescence and Education on Terry Pratchetts Discworld". Supernatural Youth. Lexington Books. pp.43–64. ISBN 9780739128596. Wintersmith. Tiffany gave up and sighed. 'I'm almost thirteen,' she said. 'I can look after myself.'" and "It was her birthday...Thirteen years old. But she'd been thinking of herself as 'nearly thirteen' for months now. DTR - Ooook! Productions". Durhamtheatrereview.com. Archived from the original on 15 January 2017 . Retrieved 3 March 2017. Like her grandmother, she appears to have a symbiotic, spiritual link with the hill lands on which she lives, and as such has shown herself to be strongly protective of the region and all its inhabitants. On several occasions, Tiffany has induced in herself a state oneness with the Chalk, becoming completely aware of every sensation, life-form, and object around her, including the land itself. In I Shall Wear Midnight it is revealed that in the future, Tiffany is able to exert a limited amount of influence over events throughout the timeline with the help of Eskarina Smith, the main character of Equal Rites.

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The Amazing Maurice, an animated film adaptation of The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents was in production as of late 2020. [58] Troll Bridge". Members.fortunecity.com. Archived from the original on 9 March 2012 . Retrieved 9 March 2012. When Tiffany is in her late teens, Granny Weatherwax dies, leaving a note recommending that Tiffany take over her steading. Though at first she splits her time between there and the chalk, she eventually leaves the steading to the care of Geoffrey, a man she had been training to become a witch. She builds for herself her own shepherd's carding hut by hand, so as to live up on the chalk, re-using the iron wheels which remained after Granny Aching's hut was burned. David Buchbinder (2003). "The Orangutan in the Library The Comfort of Strangeness in Terry Pratchetts Discworld Novels". Youth Cultures: Texts, Images, and Identities. Greenwood Publishing Group. edited by Kerry Mallan, Sharyn Pearce. pp.169–182. ISBN 0-275-97409-X.

The Amazing Maurice - Ulysses Filmproduktion EN". ulyssesfilms.de. Archived from the original on 4 December 2020 . Retrieved 30 November 2020.

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