Remember that as the battle was raging, Mhoram mentioned that Kevin wasn't as powerful as the Lords had thought. Although the Old Lords were more powerful than the New Lords, the New Lords, and especially Elena, seem to have vastly overestimated the power of those legends. Why Elena thought the ghos...

I enjoyed the Last Chronicles, but I do think that any author who loved the first two Chronicles could have written the third. It just didn't carry the same emotional weight as the first two, it was more your typical fantasy series. But still very good. BTW, I'd love to know what people think who ha...

It seems to me that Donaldson had reason to fear writing the Last Chronicles. He was not quite equal to the story. However, I'm still glad he made the attempt. I did not feel that the 2nd Chronicles was an ending and wished for a long time for a 3rd Chronicles. I'm grateful that we got them. And the...

I liked Against All things ending, but I understand the criticism from reviewers: too much standing around talking about what happened rather than advancing the plot. As someone who is often rather obtuse, I do like having things explained to me by the characters, but it got to be too much after the...

The Creator is a God, but not an all powerful all seeing, all powerful deity like the Christian God. More like the limited gods of ancient legend. It also strikes me that he sucks at worldbuilding, because he made laws that could be broken(and stay broken once broken) and created a world that requir...

The croyel was able to hide from the Haruchai, but only by closing Covenant and Jeremiah off completely. Which was plausible to the Haruchai because they had never been able to "see" Covenant in the first place.

I find Donaldson REALLY hard to predict. The fact that many people think the ending of the Chronicles may be disastrous is a testament to how well he can keep us guessing. That being said, here are some things that I think will probably happen. Jeremiah will be the key to stopping the Worm. Whatever...

Hugh Laurie to me is the best guy if they were going to film it now. For Covenant.

I'm actually surprised that after months at a time in the Land that the "real world" characters don't start adopting the mode of speech of the people of the Land. So for me, Covenant and Linden adopting leagues as a measurement of distance is no great stretch.

The Haruchai/Sandgorgon battle is an interesting thing to bring up, because I do think two Haruchai could take down a Sandgorgon under the right circumstances. The awesome thing about the Haruchai is that despite the fact that they have no power, they always seem to figure out a way to win, or at le...

I agree about One Tree. One tree was a tour de force in that it was a tour of a large part of the Earth that we've never seen but have heard about, and it's certainly eventful. But the downside was that it involved too many events that were just painful to slog through. Reading the One tree made me ...

Carbuncle! And puissance got on my nerves as well.

As for Hellfire, i think that kind of sucks as a curse, but at one point Covenant says a pretty cool one, "I don't give a good Goddamn!"

Never heard Goddamn used as a noun before.

How about "Attack of the Despiser".

Nah, they won't make him a leper. Gotta be more PC. They'll give him AIDS.

Or they could just throw out the books entirely and make Covenant the Rock, who throws wild magic everywhere and kicks everyone's butt. He also scores with Lena, Atiaran,and several Ramen including a Manethrall. The Ranyhyn all choose him because he's the biggest stud ever and he'd lay the smack dow...

Ice Cube!

Covenant doesn't have to be white and Ice Cube plays a good antihero.

Ah, Vain. Mr. Personality.

James Earl Jones for Foul!

Michael Gross? I had a hard enough time with him as daddy in Family Ties. He was really ruined for me in Tremors, and I think he is best suited for Lifetime movies. Gross has that kindly, friendly aspect that really fits Mhoram. When I was thinking of this cast list it was around 1990 though, so ev...

'Cause it's called "Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever", not "Thomas Covenant the Badass Who Runs Around The Land Throwing Wild Magic Everywhere And Killing Everything In Sight Heh. At least not until Wounded Land. There had to be some kind of subconcious issue as well though, because th...