You missed an important point in reading The One Tree , and none of the replies have addressed it. You ask: [W]hy did the Elohim as a whole try to prevent Vain's purpose? The Elohim as a whole did not. Go back and re-read the relevant part. After Vain escapes, Linden urges the company to depart befo...

The Land is also on a planet called "Earth."

Right, that's why Berek and TC are called Earthfriend, the people of The Land experience Earthpower, and Seadreamer had the Earthsight.

If you can have time travel, you can have hurtloam. Maybe you can have it in any case. Not everything is amenable to being healed – Covenant’s fingers never grew back – but it’s possible Jeremiah could become more communicative. But it’s true that it would be naïve to accept everyone who shows up at...

It’s quite clear, with the benefit of hindsight , that Troy’s original plan wasn’t the ideal one. But he had no way of knowing that at the time. Neither did the Lords. It’s not as if Troy just imposed his plan on everyone. Elena and Mhoram and Quann were part of the process, too. If Fleshharrower’s ...

Fair enough. I agree that saying, read these six books so you'll be able to follow a seventh book, wouldn't be much of a recommendation.

But maybe the best encouragement to give potential new readers is to urge them to read LFB.

There's one that honestly reads like a troll. Here are a few highlights: …[W]hen I read the last book in the Thomas Covenant series, THE WHITE-GOLD WIELDER Not a promising start. as long as I never read that book, then Thomas would still be "alive." What’s with the “Thomas”? Joan calls him...