Anyone else a fan? I have to say, it's my favorite single novel of all time, and I re-read it every year. I've just started this year's re-read, and I'm trying to do something like the dissection discussions here about it, on my blog, a chapter at a time. Please drop on by, if you've read it, or wan...

Just seeing this topic now - I've self-published, too, and I'm very happy (although it's been difficult and I have yet to show a profit after 18 months).

There are two aspects that the various creation myths of the Land more or less agree on: anything that lives must contain the seed of its own destruction; and every creation must have a flaw - it cannot be simply perfect. I think we're meant to assume that the Worm, having been put back to sleep, is...

The excommunication of Stave seemed formalistic to me (each of the Humbled striking him, followed by the Voice himself, with Stave standing and accepting each of the blows without resistance or retaliation), implying that this was a rite that might have been performed before. That would imply that ...

How many "rebel" haruchai can you name in the Chrons (leaving aside Korik, Sill and Doar, who were corrupted by the Illearth Stone)? Stave for sure, as is discussed in this thread - shucking off the bonds of his fellows' blinkeredness. Cail too, in his eventual decision to follow the call...

Shadow binding_shoe, those are two fantastic posts.

What you described is EXACTLY what should have been explicitly grappled with by Linden and Covenant in the LCs.

[quote="wayfriend"]People forget that in RL, Linden knew Covenant for less than 2 days. For the ten years since then, Roger was underage, and lived with his grandparent guardians, who also probably made Joan's medical decisions if anyone did. There was no legitimate socially-acceptable rea...

This is tough...

The Illearth War
The Power That Preserves
The Wounded Land
The One Tree
Lord Foul's Bane
White Gold Wielder
Fatal Revenant
The Runes of the Earth
Against All Things Ending
The Last Dark

I'd say no. With the caveat that if it is, it's a symptom of structural problems with the entire Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. 1) Not agreeing with how a character(s) act is not indictitive of a failure of structure... it may be characterization, it may be a lack of background info (We do not know...

Short answer: yes to both questions. Right from the beginning of ROTE, it's a problem. Why did Linden never attempt to contact Roger, or Joan's parents, if for no other reason than to (1) inform them of Joan's condition, and. (2) see if their presence might have been the thing to rouse Joan from her...

I think Mordant's Need is, by far, the most cinematic and easily translatable-to-film of any of SRD's work. For the Chronicles...story-wise, I think a TV series along the lines of Game of Thrones would work best - 8-10 episodes per book, maybe. For LFB, it might break out as: Episode 1 - introductio...

I've mentioned this in another thread, but the mention of Sara Clint in that scene bothers me a lot. Not because Linden shouldn't be able to see her in SHE, or because she's thinking of the poor woman at all... ...but because this is the first time Linden thinks of her in nearly 3,000 pages! The wom...

The moksha escape was necessary for Jeremiah to contribute in an uncorrupted way to the re-creation of the world, and the circumstances at that point in the story didn't allow for a holding and rending of moksha . In any case there's not a lot that moksha can do as long as Covenant keeps Lord Foul ...

My opinion on people making suggestions how a novel could have been better is the same as my opinion about people's suggestions how a movie could have been made better: if you, the critic, are so knowledgeable about movies (or novels) then instead of criticizing someone's work you should be out the...

If SRD ever posed this question to himself, I think this would've been his logical answer: Appointment seals an Elohim to a specific location. Since the Worm is drawn directly to the Elohim , if one were guarding either Her or the EarthBlood, the Worm would be drawn indirectly to Her or the EarthBl...

Good catch, SkurjMaster. I fixed it.

There are IMHO layers of meaning lying beyond the narrative surface of all the Chrons - and I've largely enjoyed chewing the fat about what SRD's deeper intent is. Having said that, your plea "to read between the lines" is to me sadly an absolute necessity as far as the Last Chrons and pa...

Agreed, on the emptiness of the land. We actually didn't even see anyone in Mithil Stonedown. The only stonewodnor we met was Liand. We did get a very brief glimpse of the Woodhelven that was destroyed by the caesure in the 2nd half of Fatal Revenant, but that's pretty much it as far as "regula...

I think that in both cases (Clyne and the Master), the Raver went into them first, and it was only their ability to hold the Raver there and not let it leave, that allowed for the Raver's destruction. I'd assume that no Raver ever would have willingly possessed a tree, and certainly not one in any f...

MikeW, considering what happened to most of the people Felice DID have an interest in, if you ever met her, it would have been better for you that she wouldn't!

Personally, my favorite character was Marc - not sure what that says about me