Menolly wrote:BTW, Lisa.
I love the sentiment of your sig.
Why such a tiny font?

Wow. I totally forgot about that. I must have done that when I signed up in 2007. I didn't even notice it until you pointed it out.

Buried treasure, I guess.

Be Welcome to the Watch, kevlar. Be Well Come and True. Lisa, you have got to do better than average just under two posts a year as a member of the Watch... ;) I used to post on another forum, and it started taking over my day. So I'm trying to show a little self-control. It does not come naturally...

Hi All, good to be here. Been hanging about since I came across here right after RotE came out. but been a Donaldson fan since the First Chronicles came out in paperback in 1978 or so. Waited patiently (NOT!) as each book in the Second Chronicles made their way to publication and again this time wi...

Avatar wrote: No catching up. Post.

<grin>

Avatar wrote:Welcome to the Watch Lisa.

Don't fade away again now, y'hear?

--A

Sorry, I didn't intend to. Just got caught up with stuff.

Savor Dam wrote:Lisa, chag sameach!
We hope you dance...

Aw...

I tried asking an art critic I know, apparently such a form is either very rare, or even invented by SRD, and likely doesn't have an own name. There are some similar ones though, most of all Rondeau redouble I think, maybe that's the one you could have seen and found similar. Here, en.wikipedia.org...

However, these things given, there is a similarity between the Gerhart/Donaldson/Mettalica lines that cannot be ignored or swept under the carpet by a trite response. My take on it is ambivalent - I accept the possibility of any explanation, and forgive SRD a little 'borrowing' if that indeed is th...

So I have another question. "These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives." Is that original to SRD? I've seen it attributed to a 17th century German named Paul Gerhardt?

So... I've been a member of Kevin's Watch since 2007, but I only just posted for the first time the other day. I've been rereading the whole series since the beginning of August, and I just got to White Gold Wielder. I may possibly be ready for The Last Dark when it gets here. I first read the first...

Great post Lisa; alas I can't answer the question and [shame of shames] I haven't got a copy/copies of the 2nd Chrons to refer to, to have a look at the poem. [nb I assume it is the name of this form of verse construction you are after rather than the name of Findails song - IIRC SRD does not give ...

That's similar. Not quite the same, though. But thanks for the link. I don't know the name of that form of verse either, I am afraid. You can go here , or to similar places, and try to figure it out. But I do know of another sort of example of it. Linkin Park, In the End . One thing, I don’t know wh...

Before Findail tells his story about Kastenessen, he sings a song. It's 5 stanzas, like this: A B C D A X X X X B X X X X C X X X X D So the first stanza is made up of the 1st line of the 2nd stanza, the 2nd line of the 3rd stanza, the 3rd line of the 4th stanza, and the 4th line of the 5th stanza. ...