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- Fri Jan 04, 2013 11:40 am
- Forum: Against All Things Ending
- Topic: Who Created the Sunbane?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 12805
- Thu Jan 03, 2013 3:56 pm
- Forum: Against All Things Ending
- Topic: Who Created the Sunbane?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 12805
But it's also fair to say that Earthpower came to rely on the Staff. Either way, Earthpower suffered a blow when it was destroyed. This makes perfect sense in folklore terms. The idea goes all the way back to Ancient Egypt, where there was a story about a sorcerer who removed his heart and hid it i...
- Tue Aug 07, 2012 12:38 am
- Forum: Against All Things Ending
- Topic: How bad is it?
- Replies: 577
- Views: 113345
If the name of the Insequent means anything, it means that they are out of sequence — not part of the natural causal order under the Law. My guess — and this is no more than a guess — is that they were not meant to exist in the Earth's past; when they do show up in the past they are invaders out of ...
- Mon Aug 06, 2012 9:05 pm
- Forum: The Hall of Gifts
- Topic: Lord Talon's Revenge (a Giant's tale later)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1648
Now, for those of you who have not the patience to hear a Giantish tale, here is a very short gift: an excerpt from Lord Talon's Revenge , in which we meet the title character for the first time. The man in the black metal mask entered Ilberion in the first light of a rain-grey morning, forty-one da...
- Mon Aug 06, 2012 9:00 pm
- Forum: The Hall of Gifts
- Topic: Lord Talon's Revenge (a Giant's tale later)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1648
Lord Talon's Revenge (a Giant's tale later)
Hail, Rockbrothers and Rocksisters, and people of the Land! I've been away a long time, but wanted to reconnect with Kevin's Watch as I get ready for the climactic release of THE LAST DARK. I've missed having SRD fans to share the anticipation with. Other than that . . . life happened, depression ha...
- Mon Dec 24, 2007 2:59 pm
- Forum: Fatal Revenant
- Topic: Was Linden's desire/love/longing for TC poorly written?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5870
- Mon Dec 24, 2007 12:45 am
- Forum: Fatal Revenant
- Topic: Was Linden's desire/love/longing for TC poorly written?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5870
Lots of good thoughts! So I guess my impression that Linden did it out for her own selfish need rather than her love of TC was accurate. THOOLAH!!!! :) You call desire to protect your child a selfish need? This confirms my suspicions about you THOOLAH people. The desire to protect your child at all...
- Wed Nov 28, 2007 7:18 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Forum
- Topic: The Infamous IQ Test
- Replies: 50
- Views: 7962
- Wed Nov 28, 2007 2:43 pm
- Forum: Fatal Revenant
- Topic: Durances and Appointed
- Replies: 93
- Views: 21560
As much as I think it would be cool, I don't think SRD will bring The Creator into the land for a few reasons: Both good reasons, and I think there are more he isn't telling us about. This is the first time that the Creator has not appeared in the 'real' world to speak to either TC or Linden. I sus...
- Wed Nov 28, 2007 2:41 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Forum
- Topic: The Infamous IQ Test
- Replies: 50
- Views: 7962
- Wed Nov 28, 2007 2:38 pm
- Forum: Fatal Revenant
- Topic: just finished fatal revenant
- Replies: 67
- Views: 16718
You seem, like most moral relativists I've encountered, to misunderstand what is meant by moral absolutism. Moral absolutism is not the belief that every act is absolutely right or absolutely wrong. It is the belief that moral values have an objective referent; that the moral quality of an act is di...
- Wed Nov 28, 2007 1:52 am
- Forum: Fatal Revenant
- Topic: just finished fatal revenant
- Replies: 67
- Views: 16718
Well put, Edelaith. Here's the point where Linden's wilful blindness becomes damningly culpable: If Good cannot be accomplished by evil means, then she would believe that her means were not evil. Linden had been repeatedly warned that her means were evil. She chose, despite all evidence and advice, ...
- Tue Nov 27, 2007 6:31 pm
- Forum: J.R.R. Tolkien Forum
- Topic: Glorfindel?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 15879
In Sauron's weakened state, sans the One Ring, I imagine that Gandalf, especially as Gandalf the White, could have mastered him. (Especially, let's say, with a great elf-lord like Glorfindel at his side.) However, getting TO Sauron would have been impossible. There wasn't an army on Middle-earth st...
- Tue Nov 27, 2007 4:39 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Forum
- Topic: The Infamous IQ Test
- Replies: 50
- Views: 7962
- Tue Nov 27, 2007 4:17 pm
- Forum: Fatal Revenant
- Topic: OK, OK, SRD, we get it, we get it, let's move on, please...
- Replies: 48
- Views: 10317
SRD states the father similarities so many times in TWL and TOT its ridiculous. No preconceptions here, just a careful reading ;) ... followed by a logical leap of metaphoric proportions to conclude that she was incapable of loving a man except as a father replacement. Sorry, that's you making the ...
- Tue Nov 27, 2007 4:13 pm
- Forum: J.R.R. Tolkien Forum
- Topic: Glorfindel?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 15879
More to the point: There were Maiar and Maiar; some were nearly as powerful as the Valar, some were much lesser beings. And some had dedicated themselves to the pursuit and exercise of power, while others hadn't. At one extreme we have Bombadil (whom JRRT once described as 'a Maia of a sort'), who i...
- Thu Nov 22, 2007 3:54 am
- Forum: Fatal Revenant
- Topic: Mahrtiir
- Replies: 42
- Views: 13509
- Wed Oct 31, 2007 8:59 pm
- Forum: Fatal Revenant
- Topic: Wordy words from FR
- Replies: 94
- Views: 24953
- Mon Oct 29, 2007 5:54 pm
- Forum: Fatal Revenant
- Topic: The Vizard
- Replies: 46
- Views: 16316
I'm pretty sure the Vizard is dead, though I can't find chapter and page at the moment. But remember that Jeremiah's mind has been in the Land much longer than his body, at least from time to time. (And if his 'mind' is just a cheat manufactured by the croyel, that's even more true.) Jeremiah's firs...
- Mon Oct 29, 2007 1:34 pm
- Forum: Fatal Revenant
- Topic: Why I'm Disappointed in the Last Chronicles
- Replies: 122
- Views: 42387
Great to hear from my navigator in the Lordsmobile! :D How are you, VF? Yeah, where have you been? I miss your posts! 'Lord, I have been away. I have feasted with the Elohim, and ridden Sandgorgons. I have danced with the Dancers of the Sea, and teased brave Kelenbhrabanal in his grave, and traded ...