Ah! How could I forget The Princess Bride?!

I agree with your sentiments about fantasy authors - works of fiction are based in a world that already exists, whereas fantasy involves creating entire worlds from scratch...something which is very difficult to do without sounding derivative (as so much mediocre fantasy does). Presumably that's why...

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Indeed, even in TPTP, I never pictured Mhoram as more than middle-aged in appearance

A British actor who's been in...........things.........I can't bring to mind (I've never seen Withnail). Not sure about him as TC though. Capable actor, but "hellfire"-ing American leper anti-hero? Hmmmmmm...

lol - I can't see "Hi, I'm an impotent leper" working for many people...

Yeah, PM Vain (and ask him nicely! ). He changed the login name for the person who is now Gareth Yaztromo...

The way I interpret it is: Despite (meaning LF) was essentially focused on the humans above anything else, and the humans were originally from outside the Land (perhaps another continent/country, in the manner of Brathairealm). LF only came to the Land because he was following the humans - he has no...

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I always though that LA's extreme health-sense was sort of her gift, but it's an interesting thought that any healthy person from our world might have had the same health-sense as Linden. TC a leper and HT blind, we never found out. Hmmm... TC did indeed experience pain with the boots, but it seemed...

That was me... This chronically unco-operative work PC keeps logging me out...

Excellent places to go! Have fun, and hope to see you return to the Watch, Foamy

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I would suspect they noticed his tendency to corrupt everything he touches even before he got to them. The Bloodguard were centuries old, and had probably seen a lot of corruption at Foul's hands...

Although TWL is one of my least-loved installments of TCTC, there is one feature in it that really struck me, and made me think (I believe I have mentioned this before, waaaaaaaay back when I first joined Kevin's Watch, nearly a year ago 8O ). It was relatively brief, but I remember finding myself l...

I think Ur-Vile means the Creator didn't know what antivenin is. "They bore you to the hospital for treatment. This treatment employs a thing which the Healers of your world name 'antivenin' " Ur-Vile was (I believe) proposing that if the Land's Creator also created our world, he would kno...

The Ravers are not Foul's creations, so I would imagine there is no intrinsic bond. It was never made entirely clear what did cause the Ravers to serve (or at least co-operate with) LF.

Weren't the Demondim a noble and lofty race? (if slightly inappropriately named - "demon" and "dim" are hardly complimentary words...)

Indeed. I can't help thinking the Hollywood studios would probably cut all the controversial bits - the bits that lift TCTC above your average fantasy fare. I also can't really see how they could express all the internal struggles that occur within various characters in the Chronicles. But I think i...

I took it to be a guide to Covenant as to how to use the wild magic. In that it works like a limb, an extension of TC (or whoever is wielding it) rather than an external force... Or at least, that's the meaning I got from that comment in the context it was made...