I tried to get a good friend to read the series, but she is a big LOTR fan, and could see nothing in LFB but the similarities to LOTR and couldn't get past them. I tried to point out, that TCTC goes into an entirely different (and in my opinion DEEPER) examination of the nature of morality/humanity/...

First totally new word that jumped out at me in FR: "aubade". This far into the Covenenat series "condign", "ambergris ", and "anodyne" no longer even merit a second thought, they simply elicit a brief smile as if seeing an old friend's picture in a yearbook, ...

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Remember at the beginning of ROTE when Linden has that dream or vision of the Land cracking open and fire coming out? Saw this image at the Astronomy Picture of the Day a while ago and immediately thought of that vision. If even looks like one of the Appointed (Kastenessen?) trying to break from his...

Well that settles that!

Thanks for the quotes "direct from the Rahnyn's mouth".

Now about the pronounciation.......

-ss

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"a Bloodguard, assigned to Lord Loerya"

ref. theland.antgear.com/glossary.html

Of course some if these names leapt to mind immediately, but then in order to keep the alphabetic sequence going, I had to dig a bit into other resources (mostly the gloassaries at the end of the books).

-SS

You people may get a kick out of this, nobody here at work does. I have put together a little Beowulf cluster here at work, I named the machines in the order purchased: (first purchase) berek brinn bannor (later added) cerrin ceer cail (then) doar (and just lately) howor hergrom BTW howor and hergro...

Well it's not actually speech per se', but I have put together a little Beowulf cluster here at work, I named the machines in the order purchased: (first purchase) berek brinn bannor (later added) cerrin ceer cail (then) doar (and just lately) howor hergrom BTW howor and hergrom are 4 CPU AMD64's at...

I voted for ambergrise, because one of my very favorite sentences in all of TCTC is unambergrised by the promise of any uncorrupt end. Does anyone remember it being used anywhere else? And does anyone know what the heck it means? I was never able to find anything other than that whale thing. I thin...

Does Abraham spare Issac or sacrifice him? Christianity/Islam... WhaHuh?!? :?: Are you saying that in Islam Yaweh didn't stop him? Most interesting take on the Abraham/Issac story I ever read was in the sci-fi book "Hyperion" by Dan Simons. To make a long story short, there is a Rabi in t...

:Hail: You're right Hearthcoal, I put undo emphasis on the "written" word comparing it to the "Wurd". "Logos" does certainly have the connotation of "Word", just not neccessarily written word. God spoke it, it was true. "In the beginning was the Word , an...

Interesting theology there Nerdanel, couple of impressions: When the wyrm wakes to signal the end of the world, it will be a complete detruction and annihilation. No mention in the myths of afterlives, heaven, golden cities, etc. So in that respect the Wyrm is more like the Sta-Puft marshmallow man ...

:hairs: My God, it's full of stars! Speaking of stars, worms, and creation.... As I was re-reading this last time i had a thought :idea: 1. The Wyrm/Wurd/Wird thingy ate the "living" stars 2. The stars inside caused the Wyrm to become stationary and caused a "crust to grow" - ie ...

:oops: Jeez! I had the time thing completely backwards in my original post!! A few minute conversation with Mhoram would be a second or two here! Sorry. Anyway guess the point that my friend brought up wasn't so much the elapsed time, but the "speed of conversation". At what point does TC ...

I apologize if this has been covered before, I looked but couldn't find it. When Mhoram summons TC at the start of TPTP, they actually have a conversation that lasts a few minutes, with TC exlpaining about the girl threatened by the snake, etc. I know that by the time TC refuses the call and gets &q...

Sarah McLachlin: the album "Solace" with "Drawn to the Rhythm", "Into the Fire", "Back Door Man", etc. You have to skip "Black" though it is a real mood killer. For the slow tender times: "Adagio" from the Gayne Ballet Suite (you'll remembe...

I came to the First Chronicles via the Science Fiction book club editions. I think i got all three for one price or something. I patiently waited for the books of the Second Chronicles to appear. Got TWL and TOT that way, but after the end of TOT, there was no way i could wait for the acid-paper/che...

I took his comment about Kevin's Watch to mean the spire of rock itself will be destroyed - perhaps to prevent further attempts at bringing people from "our" world to the land. But that begs a question.... is there anything special about that locale that made it easier to summon people? Wh...

Here are a few, please add to list.... My other car's a Ranhyn This car runs on Earth Power RAVERS SUCK I GAVE AT THE CLAVE (with a blood drop graphic) My kid made the honor roll at the LORESRAAT If you can read this, thank a LOREWARDEN See Mount Thunder I raced the FIRE LIONS at Mount Thunder I cli...