Horrim Carabal wrote:Great analysis of the Narnia stuff.

Thank you Carabal!

(Although I haven't read GG Kay, I would not be surpised to find that SRD has been a big inspiration for other writers!)

I've got to wonder why Donaldson has [ sic ] talked about his Narnian inspiration more! Read "The Books That Made the Difference." Like the creators of LOST, he cites the Narnia series as his central inspiration. Thanks for your interest Mighara! I had read that! I just couldn't recall it...

Hello Folks! I was watching "The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe" and "Prince Caspian" yesterday and it suddenly hit me that the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant are massively inspired by the Chronicles of Narnia. It's something acknowledged by Donaldson, as I recall some GI questi...

On second thoughts, native has got me thinking. Covenant just couldn't lose power over the wild magic, even when he gave the reigns to Foul. His being has attained (or always had) some inalienable connection to the wild magic. Will Foul then too regain some power over the wild magic now that he's al...

Surely one can only give up the power over the wild magic. You give up the power over the white magic, and therefore have no say at all on who has that power from then on. If you happen to allow someone to have it when you give it up, well, it's *that* person who has the power from then on. The orig...

It is the plot from the beginning of Runes and all the way up to the end of Fatal Revenant which has practically demanded that Linden be the POV character, and that she have very limited interaction with all the other characters. The upside is that this necessity ended with the end of Fatal Revenant...

Very intriguing indeed! This series needs an epilogue back in "The Real World", and it begs the question as to who will the actors be, and who will be the POV be then?! I wonder whether magical powers "breaking" into the real world, and Foul becoming an actual threat to the real ...

Thank you HLT.
I read the chronicles as an adolescent, and now, about two decades later, I just don't read fiction. Reading Runes and Revenant has (obviously!) been an exception. They grabbed my attention simply because they are a continuation of those extraordinary books I read back then.

Super-Krill How and when did Linden learn about the ability of the Krill to be a super-duper power conductor with an extra-special safety-feature? It had some role in Hollian's resurrection no doubt, but I don't know what, as all of that Hollian/Sunder/Caer Caveral/Krill/Law-of-Life business was, t...

There is a chance that the all-new Covenant doesn't know anything of being dead, (or of being "Timewarden"!). In fact his initial question may simply spring from this ignorance, and his stated desire not to be resurrected. And so I hold out hope for a Covenant POV. And even if we don't get...

Linden Avery - Selfish Monster No. And here's why. Linden is not an "unbeliever". Her experience of the Land (with Sunbane, Lord Foul, Ravers, and all) first time was terrifyingly, horrifically real, in fact the realest stuff she has ever experienced. And she is the only person in her wor...

Folks can download "Runes of the Earth" from audible.com It has both the abridged and unabridged versions and there are samples of each to listen to here online. (NB. the actual downloads are supplied in apple's format and you'll need a player, such as an ipod, that will play that format f...

St.John's *Eve* on 23rd, and St.John's *Day* on 24th. But "St.John" is an invention! June 24th is principally Midsummer's Day . And the festival is astronomical! And it's virtually certain than any firey-festivities on that day are, originally, a celebration of the sun (at its seasonal pea...

Thanks for your replies! I want to edit my post desperately, and yet I shall refrain as you have already responded to it. I would now expand my rather thoughtless diagnosis of "insanity" to "fear, expedient duplicity, confoundedness, craziness, reckless irrationality, a lack of certai...

*WARNING!! THIS POST CONTAINS ASSERTIONS!!* :biggrin: A parallel of the "Unbelief" of Thomas Covenant at work in REALITY I find myself in a similar circumstance to Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever! The circumstance is this: I am convinced that it is not possible for any person to believe th...

And I'm afraid that your explanation about the mental instability of Joan makes no sense: she herself tells Covenant, once she has drunk his blood, "he hates you" referring to Lord Foul. Who else would have been "he"? Roger! Roger! Roger! (disclaimer - I don't have the book to c...

The Original and Unmoderated Title to this Post was: "God" is just a word used to indicate a set of absurdities Which was amusingly edited by the system too: "God" is just a word used to indicate a set of abs :biggrin: "God" is nothing but a word that refers to a well-...

Eliza Dushku She has to be *in* these movies She could do Elena She could do Linden She has the power! And she can do that "hey, I am a really screwed up murderer thing well, suffering in the sunbane of impossible guilt" And she can do the all-out endeavouring to save people thing too. (A...

Violet is a color of mystery. The Mahdoubt's other eye is violet, and the question is, does it belong to the extreme blue or the extreme red end of the visible spectrum? Violet may be associated with mind control, but we don't really know... This reminded me that Titus Groan's eyes were violet. We ...

Folks, many of you might be interested to know that the New Scientist magazine has an article this week about the ongoing plague of leprosy that exists today. It features a pathologist who is active in the fight to eradicate this disease. A short introduction to the article is available here . If yo...