Also I believe the rape scene is necessary from the point of symbolism. The rape of Lena by TC is exactly the same that Foul is doing to the Land. No other crime could describe it better. I can't say I agre with that symbolism. The despiser wants to destroy the land to gain his freedom. He doesn't ...

In no way is this an excuse for rape, just an attempt to understand what Covenant was going through. He had everything that made us human taken from him over a period of several years. He had no sensation in his extremities- he couldn't touch an feel someone. He was ostracisied from his community - ...

I think the phrase is a pretty dumb one. Harsh words, probably. I agree that it implies a complete lack of understanding of what being raped is. Let me help you with this one. rape n. 1. The crime of forcing another person to submit to sex acts, especially sexual intercourse. 2. The act of seizing a...

Just started reading Runes, so I'm dubious of looking too deeply at this forum topic area. I realised that Anele is Elena spelt backwards. If there is anyone else at the early stages of reading this book please comment, but dont spoil it for me if you find out later in the book if there is any signi...

I got Runes Yesterday in the UK, can only read a bit in lunch hours because I have a three month old (delightful) daughter. First impression "God thats a hefty book!" I managed to read the what has gone before prologue, I'm impressed by the explanation, must be 15 years since I last read t...

coincidence has it that I'm 1/2 way through the Illearth war for the third time in my life at the moment.

I've never done a read along so I don't know what occurs, so I'll sit back and watch what happens with interest.

Masrock

Just musing on why SRD is doing a last Chronicles.

My conclusion is that he came across this website, read the forums and thought "Hells Bells, so many unanswered questions. I'll have to do something about that!"



Masrock

Thanks Prince

Apology accepted, thanks fro the clarification.


Masrock

I think SRD never wanted us to forgive Covenant (just as Covenants never wants anybody to forgive him). He wants us to accept that despite this evil act - for which there is an explanation but no excuse - he can redeem himself in the end. It is the process that we witness - his understanding that d...

I didnt deny the violence, I tried to put it into context other than the desire to rape. The violence, I think is from a reaction to being ostracised and his abnormal control of his emotions. Like a tightly coiled spring, he treats her kiss as an attack and his response is to attack back. Yet in a w...

In the real world there can be no justification for raping someone. But the paradox of Covenant is here. We are replused by his rape yet feel compassion for the mitigating factors: He was completely ostracised from human contact for months. His requirement for complete self control just to stay aliv...

Melenkurion abatha! (response to the email) kevins watch is where Covenant was first summoned to- after drool had a go at him, the site of the ritual of desecration by Kevin (I think - still rereading the set) and where Linden healed the land at the end of the scond Chronicles. Obviously a place of ...

Its a while since I read WGW (10 -15 yrs) from memory, the big joke on Foul was that although the ring was the symbol, TC himself was the arch of time, once TC realised this he realised that Foul had not power over him, everything directed at TC just washed over him then. But I'm reareading the whol...