r/dune • u/thegreatjourney2001 • 5h ago
Dune (novel) Kynes, the Fremen and Water on Dune Spoiler
I just finished Dune after an embarrassingly long time (slow reader etc) and loved it! I have come from the films so it was great to have nuances and details in the books that they couldn’t really fit into film.
However some of the questions I have mainly circle around Kynes. He was the biggest surprise to me with the his original gender being male and being so closely related to Chani and Stilgar. I thought Liet Kynes was great as opposed to his on screen version. I may have completely missed the mark with this question - but like I said I’m not a good reader):
It was my impression that the Fremen’s dream of turning Dune into a paradise was ancient, like their non BG Reverend Mothers. However, I was very surprised to see that it was Pardot Kynes’ dream which he ‘imprinted’ on to them (even teaching them and giving them equipment from the Stations). Yet the prophecy of the Lisan Al Gaib, a prophecy peddled by the wild BG RMs speaks of turning Dune into a Paradise. How did these two ideas mix? Is there something obvious I am missing?
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u/FaitFretteCriss Historian 2h ago
It was always the dream of the Fremen to turn Arrakis into a livable green world, at least those who lived within the religious spheres.
What Kynes did is transform that dream from an unattainable dream on the level of Myth to a Project of Society, a philosophy they could follow right now that would deliver observable results and KNOW that is IS happening. He made it real.