1. Margot, Lady Fenring is a fictional character from the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert.
13 Facts About Margot Fenring
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Margot Fenring is featured in Herbert's Dune, and is a major character in the Prelude to Dune prequel trilogy and the 2008 novel Paul of Dune by Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson.
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Margot Fenring is one of the Bene Gesserit, a secretive matriarchal order who have achieved superhuman abilities through mental and physical conditioning, and the use of the drug melange.
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Margot Fenring had that Bene Gesserit serene repose about her that the young man found subtly disturbing.
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Margot Fenring appears in Herbert's novel Dune, in which she warns fellow Bene Gesserit Lady Jessica of impending danger to the Atreides, and is later sent by the Sisterhood to visit Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen.
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Also a Bene Gesserit, Margot Fenring has left Jessica a warning that the Atreides, especially Leto and Jessica's son Paul, are in danger from the Harkonnens, and alerts her to the existence of a traitor in the Atreides household.
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Margot Fenring is sent by the Bene Gesserit to seduce Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen and to "preserve the bloodline" by retrieving his genetic material, through conception, for their breeding program.
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Margot Fenring soon discovers that the Harkonnens have been grossly underreporting melange production to CHOAM and the Padishah Emperor Elrood IX, and are stockpiling it for their own purposes.
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Margot and her future husband Count Fenring later convince Emperor Shaddam IV to marry Reverend Mother Anirul by explaining the benefits of an alliance with the Bene Gesserit.
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In Dune: House Harkonnen, Margot Fenring seeks out the Fremen on Arrakis in search of a group of Bene Gesserit sisters working on the Missionaria Protectiva, including the Reverend Mother Ramallo, who had previously disappeared.
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The character of Margot Fenring was to have an increased role in the film adaptation of Dune planned by director Alejandro Jodorowsky in the 1970s, which was never made.
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However, Count Fenring plays a minor part in the 2000 miniseries Frank Herbert's Dune, and some of Margot's actions are attributed to Princess Irulan as part of director John Harrison's expansion of Irulan's role in that adaptation.
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Margot Fenring has been described as a critical character in the film.