Okay, I can't quote exact location within TLD, but I promise you it's there - because it struck me so forcefully on read-through. On one occasion in dialogue, Stave uses the contraction "I'm", instead of "I am". This is an editorial/proofreader miss, because SRD would never inte...

I am sure others have touched on many of my points, in depth and better worded. But I wanted to put my thoughts together. Having enjoyed this series from its inception, picking up The Illearth War in paperback at a library when I was 14, in the late 70s, it has been with me most of my life. And, in ...

The Ironhand & co. did the Jeremiah-spanking in a fashion, by sulking and reprimanding him before the temple-building. Come on now, the pipsqueak managed to anger eight Giantesses! What a feat! Even Covenant with all his whining could not dampen Foamfollower's spirits! Sure he did. From Lord Fo...

I suppose Linden being pregnant would have violated the logic of the Land/reality dichotomy, much like TC's beard would have proven the Land to be a dream. But I'd always thought a breakdown between reality and fantasy was something we were going to be shown in the Last Chronicles, so the identity ...

..Being wrong is integral to the story......TC raped Lena cuz he didn't believe what he felt was real or had any consequence..etc..thats just for starters. Wrong?..just about everything leading up to the ghastly hollow scene is wrong..the first half of Fatal is all about wrongness..illusion..lies.....

I am thinking that this is one big issue I have with the resolution. We have been told that the Worm was going to destroy the world, if roused, from the time of the One Tree at least. It was roused, fed, went unopposed, but the world survived. That suggests that some one or thing was full of it..In...

I am thinking that this is one big issue I have with the resolution. We have been told that the Worm was going to destroy the world, if roused, from the time of the One Tree at least. It was roused, fed, went unopposed, but the world survived.

After seeing what a little shit he could be, I was hoping someone would spank Jeremiah.

I like a lot of what has been said and liked here.
I like that once they swap rings and marry, the rings draw responses from each other.

I think it is vague because he was trying to do too much in this final chronicle, but it got to big and he had to make a too-short ending.

Wow. Very deep, and astute.

I was just joking.
Osondrea wasn't the nicest Lord we've met.

If this is the culmination of all the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, SHE has to be someone we've met before.
I vote for Osondrea. She was just a bit of a witch, if you catch my drift.

I don't know that I would be particularly satisfied if in the definitive end of a multi-part story, the main bad character or at least antagonist will turn out to be someone new. It is kind of time to resolve things, not start new things up.

Nice analysis.

When you are done answering your own questions, let us know. Just kidding. I think Donaldson's gone that route twice already. One, we see it slowly unfold. Vain/Findail into the new Staff. The new staff has no connection to the One Tree. It has a connection, through the bands, to the old staff. The ...

I'm sorry, but it is simply not possible to read TCTC as anything other than an act of feminist penance. A WHOLE lot to take in in that thread and I can't agree with most of it. The strong and masculine characters are the women? Ummm. Nope. Only place we see this played out with named characters is...

Dude. First step is admitting you have a problem. Good job.

He is hellfire.
Wow.
The only thing I can say is a muttered, "Hellfire," at that. Apt.

Also the Wraiths and how they were slaughtered.

SRD keeps giving us these repeating themes.
Why can't we figure out the ending with all these clues???????

Because we haven't seen the last of the wraiths. Nor the last of the trees. [/quote]