BTW, what’s with the general assumption that Troy failed? Wasn’t Fleshharrower’s army destroyed entirely? Didn’t Troy successfully draw it away from the Center Plains before they and Revelstone could be attacked? It’s hard to say that any other strategy could have produced a better outcome. He lost...

I'd have to look it up (I don't appear to have the eidetic memory some of the people on here possess....), but he at least lived as a human, and the passage describing his physical appearance at the end of WGW also mentions his very human mannerisms and thought processes. It's a big discussion, to ...

Ah, the power of command. The mystery of the age, if you will ;) Well, I think there is probably only one command you can issue to the Earthpower, and I don't think violence (no matter how noble the aim) or destruction is any part of it. Personally, I'd ask for the ability to understand Foul comple...

No need to apologise, although (were you British) I'd assume you were being ironic, anyway ;) Thanks for clearing that up in your lucid post. Indeed, the crimes of the past occasionally come back to haunt us, but no nation should be tied to a burden of guilt. To keep in the spirit of the foums: all...

That's just the arrogant English talking there. There is no conceiveable way more people in India speak English rather than Hindi. Um...no it isn't arrogance. English became the official language of India when the British colonised it. I have no real idea why India still assumes English as their na...

I'm convinced that SRD isn't thought of as a lierary visionary for a handful of reasons: 1. The first book of the chronicles is a labour until it is re-read after reading the rest of the series. 2. His language seems deliberately obscurantist until you read all of the series, and understand that he...

Treble, As I said, I spent a good deal of time defending Mhoram's decision and philosophy, so I wouldn't dream of disagreeing with you. But I'm not sure what you mean by Treble wrote: The problem with Kevin's law was that it demanded that information was withheld from the user of any given power. W...

WHAT??? what say you?? Spikes death?? ugghh ... we're behind you guys in airing the last season!! wails incessantly!!! nooooooooooooo Er.....no, he isn't. I lied, to..er...look big and clever! >_> <_< >_< Sorry mate. As most peeps on here are US (with a smattering of UK), and the fact that I natura...

yes I entirely agree Hellfire!! There is no way on 'earth' the Giants of the Land were skinny suedo-giants!! they were GIANTS dammit!! .. not just a tad over average/puny .. and a lot undernourished!! tarnation to them cover artists!! when will they read the books!! :) Ah, always ignore cover artis...

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Good discussion ^_^ The reason I'm so adamant that Mhoram's 'law' (it isn't a law as such, as it makes the concept of 'rules' null and void) is so much better, is that it doesn't deny the individual. The problem with Kevin's law was that it demanded that information was withheld from the user of an...

Ooops, wasn't logged in. Above post ^^^^ was mine, btw.

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Ummm, I don't think you're remembering that right. I think only the 3rd Ward was found between the 1st and 2nd Chronicles. And it doesn't say when the 3rd was found. Could have been found by Mhoram, could have been found a hundred years before the 2nd Chronicles. How much it was studied, if at all,...

Although it was hastily spoken of and forgotten in the second trilogy (as the information was thousands of years old and almost pointless - remember when they discovered the empty caskets which contained the other wards, and they were dismissed as worthless?), I assume Mhoram utterly surpassed the ...

One thing I got very clearly from the books is that, although the people of the land, and all of its defenders, are lovely...they're pretty dumb ;) There seems to be a great deal of information lying around, untouched and unused. The Lords were unable to decipher all of Kevin's Law, yet many were i...

Hello again. Sorry to have been away soo long. Rest assured, though, I have been lurking ;) This may well have been covered (sorry, I couldn't bring myself to read every post :) ), but altering the ending would have removed from the characters' lives their very meaning. A repeated motif is that, no...

Hadrien's Wall is the long barricade built by King John (I think - my history isn't great) to define the border between Scotland and England, and patrol it. Imagine a smaller version of the Great Wall of China, basically, although it isn't as impressive now as back-in-the-day, of course.