From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Artemis Fowl

Cover of the first book in the series, Artemis Fowl (UK first edition).
Author	Eoin Colfer
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre(s)	Fantasy
Publisher	Viking Press
Publication date	2001
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)

Artemis Fowl is a series of fantasy novels written by Irish author Eoin Colfer, starring the teenage criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl. The series is written in half-serious language, alternating dark moments with humorous ones, a style favoured by a number of popular children's authors, including J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter) and Roald Dahl (The Witches).

Artemis, the main character, is a ruthless and extremely intelligent young criminal whose main goal is the acquisition of money through a variety of schemes (although his values change towards the 5th book). The author of the series summed up the series as: "Die Hard with fairies."^[1]

Contents 1 Main characters 1.1 Villains 2 Minor characters 2.1 Humans 2.2 Fairies 2.3 Artemis Fowl Files 3 Books in the Series 4 Artemis Fowl movie 5 References 6 External links

• Artemis Fowl II, the central character, is a child prodigy, similar to Mozart, for example. Artemis starts his work against the fairies by kidnapping LEPrecon captain Holly Short in order to retrieve fairy gold as a ransom. He later works with his former captive to save the world from impending doom on several occasions. Most people, although Artemis is never fully described in the books, say that he is mysteriously handsome.
• Butler, is Artemis's butler and bodyguard. The Butler family has served the Fowl family for generations with a Butler being assigned to a new Fowl at birth. In Book III, he reveals his first name to Artemis, even though it is against protocol, when he believes he is near death. He has a comprehensive knowledge of numerous weapons and extensive training in martial arts, enough so to be able to survive an encounter with a troll. Butler is more than what he seems and follows Artemis around the world on his adventures. He is also Artemis's closest friend.
• Juliet Butler is the sister of Butler, and a bodyguard in training. The following quote from the third book seems to describe Juliet's departure from the normal teenage girl's standard quite well: "For her eighteenth birthday she asked for, and received, a ribbed Judo crash vest, two weighted throwing knives and a World Wrestling Grudge Match video". She "could hit a moving target with any weapon you could care to name and she could throw most people a lot further than she trusted them."
• Captain Holly Short is the a female LEPrecon (Lower Elements Police Reconnaissance) officer. She's tougher than most of her male counterparts and has more field experience than most. Holly has a strong sense of morals and usually works based off of intuition rather than common sense, a quality that often gets her into trouble. She is captured by Artemis in the first book but her quick thinking helps her cause havoc in Fowl Manor. Through the series Holly and Artemis come to understand each other better and eventually become friends.
• Foaly is a centaur, and the LEP's technological genius. He is paranoid, choosing to wear tin-foil hats to protect his brain from the mind-probing rays he believes are following him, although he knows they have yet to be invented. He is also quite vain about his work and appearance. His inventions keep Holly one step ahead of the game.
• Commander Julius Root of the LEPrecon has a military personality and a short temper that earned him the nickname of "Beetroot" (due to the fact that he turned red when angry), but also made him an ideal leader for the LEPrecon. He had the habit of smoking noxious fungus cigars and became a father-like figure to Holly Short. died of a bomb strapped to his chest in book 4.
• Mulch Diggums is a kleptomaniacal dwarf with incredible flatulence, who has lost his magical abilities due to breaking-and-entering human dwellings without invitations. Like all male dwarves, Mulch is adapted for tunnelling, and his unhingeable jaw and accelerated digestion have proved vital on many of his criminal ventures.
• Minerva Paradizo, is a second teenage criminal genius who captures the imp N^o1 and tries to present him as her project for the Nobel prize award in Stockholm. She is younger than Artemis and believes she can outsmart him when he tries to save the magical world from discovery.
• N^o1, a very powerful imp warlock (Qwan's apprentice as of Book V) who helped to save Hybras. Before saving Hybras, however, he got involved with Artemis Fowl, and was kidnapped by Minerva Paradizo.
• Qwan was the most powerful of the original seven full-fledged warlocks who lifted Hybras out of time. The only warlock who survived in his petrified form, he brought Hybras back to the real world outside the Limbo with help from Artemis, Qweffor (his apprentice who was believed to be deceased, but actually trapped in N'zall a.k.a. Abbot)

There is no obvious villain for the first book, as it is Artemis Fowl vs. the LEP; Artemis Fowl could himself be considered the villain or hero/anti-hero, an unusual stance for a children's book. The minor villain is Briar Cudgeon, who tries to kill Artemis with a troll.

• Briar Cudgeon In Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident He sided with Opal Koboi to overthrow the LEP and takeover Haven. He is the mastermind behind the Goblin uprising and arguably the leader of the alliance between him and Opal. He is killed in the second book when he is knocked into plasma by Opal.
• Opal Koboi is the antagonist in The Opal Deception and The Arctic Incident. A truffle-obsessed, self-centered, slightly paranoid, super-genius pixie, she co-headed the B'wa Kell rebellion (Book II). She also owns Koboi Laboratories, and is a rival of Foaly. She was imprisoned in The Opal Deception, and labeled as slightly schizophrenic and a pathological liar.
• Jon Spiro is the villain of Book III. A shady, successful businessman from Chicago, he steals a computer called the C-cube, which was made using fairy technology, from Artemis in order to use it for his own technology company, Fission Chips, and imprisoned Artemis when he could not crack its encryption. (Spiro is imprisoned in Book III)
• Goblins are the species of fairies who have lizard-like bodies and can conjure fire, and have an incredible lack of intelligence. The B'wa Kell (the equivalent of the fairy Mafia) consists of Goblins.
• In the book Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony, demons such as Leon Abbot are arguably antagonists, but characters like Number One and Qwan are ambivalent due to the aid they render to Artemis and all inhabitants of the Earth, magical or not.
• Ark Sool replaces Julius Root as the new Commander of the LEP. Foaly holds him in high contempt, and his distrust for Holly drove her to quit the LEP. He was sacked as LEP Commander during the time when Holly and Artemis were at Hybras (the demon city) in Book V.

• Artemis Fowl I is the father of Artemis the Second and lost his leg in an incident with a ship loaded with cola.
• Angeline Fowl is the mother of Artemis the Second.
• Arno Blunt is Spiro's bodyguard (imprisoned in Book III)
• Fowl twins, to whom Artemis becomes an older brother after his ordeal in Hybras, (mentioned very briefly in the end of the 5th book).

• Jonah Lee, A.K.A Billy Kong is a ruthless killer who tries to hunt down demon N°1 to avenge his older brother who was supposedly killed by demons, an excuse his older brother made to keep Lee inside their house as a child.

• Giovanni Zito is a dedicated and rich environmentalist. He is chosen by Opal Koboi as her adopted parent in book IV which she uses to achieve her evil scheme and is mentioned very briefly in the 5th book.

In the Artemis Fowl series, "fairy" is a generic term for all supernatural creatures.

• Trouble Kelp is a LEP major, who appears to be a good friend of Holly. His younger brother gave him the nickname "Trubs"
• Wing Commander Vinyáya is the head of Section Eight of the LEP. A supporter of Julius Root, she offered Holly a job in the secretive Section Eight department in Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony. She was one of the first to believe that Holly did not kill Root in Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception. She was also Holly's flight instructor in the LEP academy and said that Holly "could fly a pod through the gap in your teeth". During the B'wa Kell uprising and attack on Police Plaza, she was the only council member not to retreat to the operations department; she demanded to be given an electric rifle and didn't miss once.
• Corporal Grub Kelp is Trouble's younger brother who is a coward and often refers to his "Mummy."
• Chix Verbil is a sprite in the LEP whose life was saved by Captain Holly Short in Book II. He also lent his starter chip for his shuttle to Mulch Diggums in Book IV in order to save Holly, somewhat reluctantly but understandibly so.
• Doctor Jerbal Argon is a psychiatrist in Book I and the owner of a medical clinic in Book IV.
• Doodah Day is an illegal fish marketing pixie. He took a great disliking toward Mulch, due to being swallowed up and cocooned inside slimy Dwarf spittle. He was later granted amnesty. He worked as Mulch's PI partner during the time period when Holly and Artemis disappeared in Book V.
• Leon Abbot is also known as N'zall (meaning "Little horn"), and the supposed saviour of the demons. He caused the time-spell on Hybras to go awry.
• Mervall (Merv) and Descant (Scant) Brill are the fairy twins that are accomplices to Opal Koboi. They helped wake her from her self-induced coma after serving as janitors in Jerbal Argon's clinic where she was kept.

• Turnball Root is the defamed and notorious brother of Commander Julius Root.
• Major Evergreen is the fairy major in the LEP who reveals the location of the next training mission.
• Sergei is a dwarf that leads a theater troupe of six dwarves.
• The Significants are the dwarves within Sergei's band.

1. Artemis Fowl (2001)
2. Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident (2002)
3. Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code (2003)
4. Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception (2005)
5. Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony (2006)
6. Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox

Others

• Artemis Fowl: The Seventh Dwarf (2004) (Short story specially written for World Book Day 2004)
• The Artemis Fowl Files (2004)
• Artemis Fowl: The Graphic Novel

There is an Artemis Fowl movie scheduled to come out sometime in 2008. Confirmation is provided below by Eoin Colfer himself.

In a 2002 BBC interview, the author Eoin Colfer named Lawrence Guterman as the director. Colfer said that he was "especially glad that they are going to be looking for an Irish Artemis."^[2]. This has now been proven false, by Eoin Colfer himself. Lawrence Guterman is not, in fact, directing the movie, nor does he have any part in it.^{[citation needed]}

In a 2007 Artemis Fowl Confidential interview,^[3] Colfer stated the following:

I have been working intermittently on the screenplay for the past year with Jim Sheridan the Irish director. We have kept the heart of books one and two but I also wanted to do something cinematic and spectacular so we added a big exciting ending. No new characters but plenty of new one liners. I really love the story and we hope to go into production this Summer. No cast yet.

v • d • e Eoin Colfer’s Artemis Fowl
Main series:	Artemis Fowl | The Arctic Incident | The Eternity Code | The Opal Deception | The Lost Colony | The Time Paradox
Related books:	The Seventh Dwarf | The Artemis Fowl Files
Graphic novels:	Artemis Fowl: The Graphic Novel
Other media:	Artemis Fowl (film)
Main Characters
Humans:	Artemis Fowl | Domovoi Butler | Juliet Butler | Minerva Paradizo
The People:	Holly Short | Foaly | Julius Root | Mulch Diggums | Trouble Kelp | Opal Koboi | Other characters
Groups:	Organisations | Types of Fairies | Locations | Fairy Languages | Magic and Technology

• The official Artemis Fowl website
• The official site of Eoin Colfer
• The Artemis Fowl fan site
• An Artemis Fowl Wiki