The person who recommended the books to me had desribed them as being quite dark. I wasn't quite prepared for the protagonist to commit a violent act of rape in the early stages of the story. However, I persevered. There was enough of interest to keep me going. The test of truth at soaring woodhelve...

What I don't understand is why he made the deal to build Valhalla with the Giants. It was obvious that it would mean his downfall. Clearly, Wotan was a clever negotiator as he managed to build up his powers through his treaties. This seems a big oversight. As I remember it, Loge, (the god of plans ...

Anele says that the Caesures have only been present in the land for five score years (I think) Nevertheless, The ur-viles used one to escape Lord Foul's extermination, and Anele himself was brought into the future through one. The quest itself travels back to 200 years after the Sunbane, long before...

One of the parallels that jumped out to me a bit (between Wagner and Donaldson) was the necessity of freedom concept. Wotan, having struck a deal with the giants, couldn't go back on his word. So he decided to create a hero (Siegmund) who would win back the ring without Wotan's intervention. It is l...

I seem to remember in the Covenant/Creator conversation at the end of TPTP, the Creator said that he had only created The Land and not the real world. But he had some influence over events in the real world. ie restoring Covenant's health from the horse-serum they injected him with to counteract the...

I seem to remember that Covenant could have finished Foul off ... but decided not to. The power display would kinda go against that, and also bring up the problem of how Foul comes back in the 2nd chrons. And I don't want to see Foamfollower done out of his part in it. But I must admit, I'm having t...

Obviously the rape was incredibly central to the plot - the consequences don't seem to ever end. I expect they'll come back to haunt Covenant even more in the last three books :wink: But for me, the rape was the biggest problem in getting "into" the books. Not that I didn't manage to read ...

Must admit, I had a bit of trouble with LFB the first time round, since he doesn't feel any regret until the plains of Ra. Until that point, Covenant barely acknowledges that he's committed a crime; and it practically gets forgotten in the midst of all the action that's happening. Since it's such a ...

The problem with the covenant books is that they're so densely plotted, and everything is so inter-reliant. As well as small actions having multitudes of consequences, practically everything that happens is a consequence of Covenant's mindstate at that particular moment. If you were to change the st...

House definitely isn't Covenant. He's an excellent doctor (read Hero) and very confident in himself - in an episode I watched the other day, he told them to medicate a patient on the basis of a guess. When questioned, he replied "That's why it's gonna be so cool when I'm right"... A sharp ...