Covenant has many fine qualities but his resentment against his wife and ignoring of his son can very well be the biggest cause for what is happening in the 3rd Chronicles. This isn't entirely fair. Joan made it perfectly clear when she divorced TC that she did not want him anywhere near Roger. And...

My speculation on Giant names: Maybe the first name is given by the parents at birth, and the second is bestowed in adulthood for some significant reason or other. Mistweave therefore doesn't have a second name because he is young and has had no real signifcant event in his life before the Search. P...

That Berek took a branch from the One Tree to make a Staff of Law is implied, never certified. In TOT when the quest reaches their goal TC notes that a limb of the one tree ended in abrupt stump as if the rest of it had been cut off. I think we are meant conclude that this is the limb Berek took. H...

one can also cite the events with Kevin's shade in TIW under Skyweir.

And Elena's ghost in TPTP certainly was not passive. She using the Staff to levy Foul's Winter on the Land, and she tried to kill TC.

In WGW, Hollian is resurrected, another Law is broken. For me, it's the climactic scenes in "The Banefire": the combat with Gibbon in the Hall of Gifts, Honingscrave imprisoning the Raver and dying by the Sandgorgon's violence; the Sangorgon becoming sentinent; Convenant walking into the ...

we then have the Second Chronicles occurring in the early 1980s and the Last Chronicles in the early 1990s. From what little Real World background info we get in the books this works: an effective cure was worked out for leprosy in the late 80s/early 90s (a more complex drug regimen than the one me...

Absent the elohim, the Worm wakes up sooner, and probably sooner yet due to the effects of the battle against the quellvisk on the Worm's slumbering.

But this rather begs the question: the Elohim did fight the Qvellvisks, and destroy them, and the Worm did not wake up.

We also never had Foul's Throne adequetely explained. Or at least Linden rejected (for chronologically sound reasons) the explanation offered by the croyel.

Also the transition between the vegetative Jeremiah and the normal boy Jeremiah was too sudden for me. The boy has some 'splainin to do and hopefully we will get that in the next book. How and when did he first enter the Land, how did he encounter Roger and the croyel? What does he know about Kaste...

They admit the future is different, depending on current choice...but still think only one right choice, only one right path, and they know exactly what it is I agree with this. It's part and parcel of their self-centeredness. Findail even has an inkling how wrong they've been in WGW when he tells ...

I predicted that Linden had not Commanded the glamours away from Roger/TC and croyel, yet the present work insists that it was so despite the rule stating that beings from beyond the Land's universe cannot be Commanded. The glamour arose from sources within the Land, either by the croyel's power, o...

Are the Ranyhyn her offspring, maybe via the Creator? Maybe the Elohim are her Children? I'm stitching together two different myths: The old Giantish myth about the rainbow and the stars as the Creator's children (add the fact that there's some sort of connection between the Elohim and the stars) T...

why had Foul bothered with the lil' old Illearth Stone when 'She' is apparently so much more potent ? My guess: She is the same order of being that Foul is-- She's in his league despite being as insane as Joan, and he can't be sure he can control Her, especially since She probably has some issues w...

The Elohim aren't necessarily deterministic. Back in TOT Daphin tells Linden "In our sight many paths are possible." If you consider that concept in the real world, it points to reality as Quantum Physics shows it to be: there is no "the future", but rather "futures", p...

Moreover formication is spelled...fornication. Hopefully later editions will correct this as such a goof at a moment of high tension creates unintentional humor.

The poor viles were tricked by Lord Foul to despise themselves. They weren't bad in the beginning. They were dedicated to beauty and wonder, spurning the evils buried around their underground home. But if this revisionism is correct There's no revisionism here. Even way back in Lord Foul's Bane (wh...

He mentioned that someone on the GI had asked why Lena had not shown up with the Dead.

Back TWL we did see Lena and her parents among the Dead: they appeared to TC as he wandered the margins of Andelain with Vain after escaping Stonemight Woodhelven. Lena compelled him to eat aliantha.

In WGW TC withholds his intentions from Linden and the Giants as they travel to Mount Thunder. All he tells them is that he's going there to explain something to Lord Foul-- not "I'm going to give him my Ring and goad him into killing me so I can merge with the Arch of Time and protect it from ...

I agree that the story is ambiguous as to whether the Elohim were trapped or not. Maybe we could ask SRD in his Gradual Interview? If he says "Wait til the next book" that means something significant is impending on the matter. If he says "Didn't I make it obvious they were trapped?&q...

There's something in Stave's words similar to what the Creator told Covenant at the end of the First Chrons: that his need to feel responsible for all the losses in Land was a more complex form of suicide.