Talk:The Doom That Came to Sarnath

Corrected plot summary
I've made a few corrections to the plot summary because the existing one got some things wrong. 88.97.79.130 (talk) 21:27, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
 * It wasn't inhabitants who fled, it was the visitors.
 * The story never actually says that the king and his retinue were transformed into Beings from Ib, only that those who looked into the windows saw those beings - they could have replaced or killed the king and his retinue.
 * There weren't ruins left afterwards, but empty marsh.

Untitled
Transfered the information on Lin Carter and the name Thuum'ha from Synopsis to Connections as it is another author's later extrapolation and not part of the original story.

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POVish
I have to question the tone here: "The hatred of the people of Ib by those of Sarnath eventually drove them to madness and genocide, horribly slaughtering the helpless beings and stealing their idol as a trophy."

Nowhere in Lovecraft's story do I get the implication that the Ib-thingies (they're certainly not "people", and Lovecraft never uses that word; "inhabitants" might be better) are seen as innocent victims. It's true they don't actually do anything to the Sarnath people, but one of Lovecraft's big themes was that monsters, etc. could be destructive to people simply by existing (that's why everything in his stories is "blasphemous", "foetid", "nefandous", etc.) Lovecraft often portrays destroying monsters (or evidence of them, as in The Unnamable - "It would be blasphemous to leave such bones in the world") as a laudable or necessary act. This story is certainly more ambiguous, but Lovecraft does seem to consider Ib something horrific - it is included in a list of "whispered prehuman blasphemies" in At the Mountains of Madness along with the more overtly hostile R'lyeh, Valusia, and The Nameless City. Vultur (talk) 21:59, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I changed the passage to "The people of Sarnath killed the creatures inhabiting Ib and took their idol as a trophy", since hatred had been mentioned in the previous sentence. Vultur (talk) 02:40, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Similarities to ancient references to Babylon
In 2014, I added the following information to this article. It was later deleted due to lack of citations--rightfully so, since it is my own research:

The message of doom written on the altar and the destruction of Sarnath during an impious feast are related to the story of Belshazzar's feast in Daniel, Chapter 5. Indeed, the description of Sarnath echoes many accounts of the glory and fate of ancient Babylon, particularly in the Bible.

KingKane (talk) 01:29, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

Requested move 10 August 2020

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 

The result of the move request was: Page moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Warm Regards,  ZI Jony  (Talk) 13:14, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

The Doom that Came to Sarnath → The Doom That Came to Sarnath – "That" should be capitalised. &#8213; Susmuffin Talk 04:16, 10 August 2020 (UTC)


 * Support proper title per most sources. Also apply this result to The Doom that Came to Sarnath and Other Stories→The Doom That Came to Sarnath and Other Stories. -- Netoholic @ 12:20, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Support per MOS:CT. Darkday (talk) 15:51, 14 August 2020 (UTC)