1. Count Hasimir Fenring is a fictional character in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert.
13 Facts About Count Fenring
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Count Fenring is featured in the 1965 science fiction novel Dune by Frank Herbert, and is a key character in the Prelude to Dune trilogy by Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson.
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Count Fenring later appears in the 2008 novel Paul of Dune, and the Caladan Trilogy.
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Count Fenring serves as Shaddam's agent, emissary, or assassin as necessary.
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Count Fenring appears to suffer from a verbal tic, but his unusual speech pattern is actually a "humming" code employed to privately communicate with his Bene Gesserit wife Margot.
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Herbert notes that Count Fenring had been trained by Margot in the Bene Gesserit method of acute observation.
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Count Fenring is later the Siridar-Absentia of the Atreides homeworld of Caladan while the Atreides occupy Arrakis.
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Count Fenring is there on the Emperor's behalf to assess the Harkonnen heir, Feyd, which irks the Baron.
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Count Fenring is summoned and ordered to kill Paul, but refuses, aware that Paul represents the success of the Bene Gesserit breeding program of which Count Fenring himself is a failure.
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In "Appendix IV: The Almanak en-Ashraf " in Dune, Herbert writes that Count Fenring is a cousin and former childhood companion of Shaddam, and is rumored to have poisoned Shaddam's father, Elrood IX.
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Count Fenring plays a minor part in the 2000 miniseries Frank Herbert's Dune, where he is portrayed by Miroslav Taborsky.
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Count Fenring is omitted from Denis Villeneuve's 2024 film Dune: Part Two, although his wife Margot does appear.
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The character of Count Fenring was to appear in the film adaptation of Dune planned by Alejandro Jodorowsky in the 1970s.