peter wrote:Why would Foul not concentrate his attentions on waking the Worm via the One Tree route rather than the waking TC route..

In AATE Donaldson stated the Guardian of the One Tree was proof against Lord Foul's own attempts to wake the Worm.

"You turn from us to save life in your own world. We will not be undone by such motives." You touch on one of my favorite lines in the Chronicles as well, Fist and Faith! Mhoram seems more clear-sighted than anybody else in the series, evn if he didn't forsee Trell doing a RoD. I've alway...

I think Moksha would continue to be a formidable adversary. Assuming other parts of the world of the Chronicles continue to exist, it's easy to imagine his causing major problems elsewhere, for instance.

Matt Ross strikes me as an interesting choice: moody, magnetic, complex:
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can we cast maria bello somewhere in this thing? i have decided i love her. (prime suspect) www.hollywoodreporter.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/thumbnail_570x321/2011/09/maria_bello_prime_suspect_a_l.jpg She looks kinda Olsen twins, but with alot more "Old Soul" in the eyes, like Dak...

For some reason, I thought The Acolyte was actually Elena, finally getting the chance of redemption she badly needed and deserved, as well as the proper mentors from among the Insequent that she had never had. I actually loved the Insequent, and I wished they'd featured in TLD. I'd actually be up fo...

I really think Nom's Garden is a truly impressive piece of work. Well done, indeed.

Agree she was insane: that's not to say she wasn't also highly charismatic, intelligent, passionate and with periods of apparent sanity, too.

I thought it was a massive disappointment, significantly worse than AATE. I found it boring and was frequently reading pages after page ps that were telling me nothing of interest. It was all too often bathetic, covered character traits that were dull several books ago, had lots of giants and Haruch...

Bowie's a superb actor: he was great in "The Prestige" and absolutely stole the show, as he always does, when he appeared in a cameo in "Extras". See also "Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence," "Basquiat" "Baal" and "The Elephant Man" to name but ...

My thoughts exactly - Mhoram is the land's greatest ever defender and wisest, yet most humane, leader. He is sorely missed in the Last Chronicles - Linden and Tc could do with his company and help. Having said that, he is present at the conclave of the great dead that Covenant remembers in the last ...

While I'm not disappointed by the Last Chronicles , I think your point is a very good one, the Fire Lions were made out to be a very big deal both in Berek's time and in LFB, and they're not even mentioned now.

Might there be a reference to them in TLD?

I'd gor for Marvel's Infinity Gauntlet series, with Thanos becoming the most powerful being in the Multiverse.

My favourite wizards are SRD's Mhoram, and Sparrowhawk (from ursula Le Guin's earthsea series). I don't like the Sensei/teacher type of wizard, and one of the many good things about those two is that they do not presume to instruct or train others, they have the Lorestat and the school of Roke for t...

I loved the serie and really appreciated the ending, yes, it was Deus Ex machina, but the title already gave that away. Anyway, since when has Deus Ex machina been a pejorative term?

Ursula Le Guin's earthsea series is my favourite other fantasy series.

First chapter of AATE says of Lord Foul:

Spoiler

"Earlier still, he spent an age of failure with the cunning folk who would one day give birth to Kasreyn of the Gyre."

They must have been a formidable people.

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Vain wrote:I think we have all the atlas of the Land pics in the galleries somewhere don't we? God I can't remember - this place is like a tardis....or gormenghast

Found it!

Any chance you could add the link? I can't find this anywhere on the site.

Elena needs an actress who can convey strength, passion for the land and the ranhym, leadership, love of TC yet also gradually and subtly reveal the insanity. Furthermore, she has to, at first, appear attractive to Covenant, a brilliant novelist in his 40s, then be revealed to be his daughter. All o...

Hate to say it, but Elena was clearly an unbalanced mind and a liability to the Land. Her being failure set the stage for the rise of Mhoram, in my book the Land's greatest ever defender. Just look what he could do without the staff of Law, the Bloodguard, the giants, Earthpower, a fit and well Cove...