I also gave Covenant a special farewell on the library blog of my hometown. I'm one of four contributors, and I set up a special Donaldson display at the front entrance of the library to celebrate TLD.

www.nashualibrary.org/nextgreatread/201 ... ite-leper/

Then there was what Infelice told them. The elohim put the worm to sleep and restored The One Tree. Ok. What changed that allowed the elohim to put the worm to sleep? It was eating them up till then. If they could put it to sleep, why didn't they do it before. Puzzling. I was puzzled at first by th...

Thanks! You clearly are nonplussed by the last chronicles.

The Last Dark hasn’t been a favorite of many, but I bloody loved it. Though I admittedly need to get an objective distance from it (and read second time).

Well, I couldn’t resist. Here are my explanations for the rankings. Feel free to counter with your own!

lorenrosson.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-chronicles-of-thomas-covenant-ranked.html

how can you possible rank TPTP 9/10? ;) Yes, I knew I'd take flak for that. But the first chronicles haven't aged well for me (except for TIW, which remains incredible by any standard). The problem is that for all the originality (a rapist anti-hero, white gold paradoxes, etc.) they owe too much to...

Please don't read this if you don't want spoilers: lorenrosson.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-last-dark.html Obviously I loved The Last Dark, and of the 10 Covenant books, it makes my top 5. This is how I'd rank them: 1. Fatal Revenant 2. The Wounded Land 3. The One Tree 4. The Illearth War 5. The Last Da...

I'm halfway through The Last Dark right now and it's bloody fantastic. I hope to review within the next week or two and add it to the other three reviews in the link above.

You're welcome! It's funny about Lord Foul's Bane -- I have such fond nostalgia about it being the first Donaldson novel I read as a teen, but in hindsight, compared to all the other books, I find it rather difficult to wade through. But it was Donaldson's first novel, and rather rough around the ed...

Thanks Savor, and yes, I should have mentioned my review is spoiler-filled and intended for those who have read the books. I'll indeed think about the chapter discussions, since this seems to be the only place online for in-depth discussion of the chronicles.

If anyone is interested, I wrote a lengthy review of the Last Chronicles as they stand so far here:

lorenrosson.blogspot.com/2011/06/last-c ... -dark.html

Any reactions and criticisms are most welcome.

The Bane (SWMNBN) is a being as old as Foul and the Creator. Esmer and Kast used her as a source of power for the Dirt, and IIRC, it was created about 100 years prior to Linden's return to the Land. The caesures have been in the Land for about 100 years, but I'm pretty sure Kevin's Dirt was estimat...

Can someone help me out here? My understanding is that Esmer and Kastenessen created the Bane, which is the source of Kevin's Dirt, and that Kevin's Dirt has been in the Land for about 500-1000 years. But didn't Kastenessen only slip his bonds recently, like half a generation ago? How could he have ...

I'm almost done the first half and am impressed so far, though I agree about "She Who Must Not Be Named". I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw that; never expected such a rip-off (and a cheesy one at that) from an author like Donaldson. But I loved the confrontation in the Lost Deep again...

Beautiful. Thanks again everyone. Now, as of today, we have two more quotes from AATE: Part 1 -- "To Achieve the Ruin of the Earth" Part 2 -- "Only the Damned" I actually remember where the second quote comes from. This one, like "the only form of innocence", is I think...

Thanks guys! Good work. I see I was wrong about even the first one. Now we just need the second part of ROTE.

Can someone assist me? I'm looking at the titles of each half of each book and wondering about the originators of the quotes: Runes of the Earth Part 1 -- "Chosen For This Desecration" (Lord Foul, I'm sure) Part 2 -- "The Only Form of Innocence" (?) Fatal Revenant Part 1 -- "...

Thanks! That is a help. I was just looking for any general timeline of The Land that reflects the further developments in the Last Chronicles.

Can anyone direct me to a decent timeline of the Land's history? There is one at the following site:

theland.antgear.com/

But it contradicts some of the things Donaldson has developed further in The Last Chronicles, particularly the time when the Demondim were created, and other things.

As we know, the Preempt Act was founded on two accusations, (1) that Com-Mine Security was involved in sabotaging Starmaster , and (2) that Com-Mine Security was involved in conspiring with an illegal. It's the second I want to focus on, because Donaldson doesn't handle it consistently. In Forbidden...

Unless this new Covenant is actually Joan in disguise. I think this one will be real. I'm not so sure. I'm seriously thinking that Linden's resurrection of Covenant is going to be another dead end. He said "Find me," but what she did doesn't seem to fit the order -- anymore than the appea...