I am wondering how Berek made the staff in the first place. Findail told TC that Berek was able to take a branch from The One Tree because it didnt have a guardian then, didnt have to win his way to the tree thru combat that would rouse the Worm enough to prevent the branch being taken and that Bere...

I would have commanded the Illearth Stone to cease to function for Lord Foul only. That would have crippled his ability to control and create new armies, would have freed Kevin from the stones influence so he didnt have to kill Elena, might even have caused his Ravers to rebel against him. In any ca...

Linden is the most pathetic lead female character I have ever read. Constant whine, self-centered, emotionally clinging, wont shut up, etc. "Oh please love me! Why wont he love me?!?! He told me not to touch him!" Maybe because you have the mental maturity of a 14 year old, Justin Beiber l...

It certainly makes sense that if you're planning for the Final Chronicles while you're writing the Second Chronicles, you might want give Linden a personal issue that doesn't fully resolve until the Final one. Or maybe SRD is simply taking perverse pleasure in tormenting his readers by inflicting u...

They weren't lovers, no matter what some folks would have you believe. After the death of Elena's mount and her bonesculpting gift to TC, he sees the hatred in her and realizes how dangerous she truly can be. That's when you starts to use her to fullfill HIS role as the lands champion (victim) and, ...

I thought it said he could have incorporated himself, but then would have been at risk of being trampled by K. On a personal note, I've found this whole issue of K's death to be one of the most baffling things in AATE. It simply beggars logic that Foul would have had any difficulty whatsoever killi...

Galt should have caved in her head, Linden is worse then useless. Her power is gimped, she can't make a decision without 5 pages of endless questions and then ignores the obvious, she treats Elena in a petty and vindictive manner, she is so self-absorbed that she doesnt care that Covenant is sufferi...

I dont believe she fell into despair, she just made a bad decision by listening to her passion instead of her head. She absolutely believed she was doing the right thing, that Kevin would be able to meet her desires. What bothers me about the whole sequence is why Bannor did not drink and send Kevin...

On a side note...out of the blue, I heard recently some one talking about Teddy Roosevelt..the man with the Big Stick, bully pulpit,,rough riders,,all that. But when he learned of his favorite sons death in WW1..he was forever changed, and never fully recovered from that loss. So..imho..that Galt w...

Mhoram on his worst day is better then Linden. I have never read a character that was so self-centered, so whiney, so INANE. I was really rooting for Galt to cave in her head, I really was.

Berek was at the isle of the One Tree, but where the isle was at the time is a matter of speculation. In TIEW it is stated that the old capital was abandoned after Berek won the war against the king, but it doesn't state where the people went. My take is that, after Berek returned with the Staff, he...

Berek cured his ringworm when he made the Staff of Law.

There would be new rock cover where they passed

Would that be Fire Lion droppings?

Rereading the last pages of LFB, Covenant stares in awe as the Fire Lions work their way down the walls....and in some cases UP the walls, trying to reach Urviles that have fled.

Verdict....living creatures of fire.

Sorry, but I must disagree with you HT lovers, he wasn't brilliant at all...he was barely competent. 1)You base your entire plan on getting word of Foul's movement on 1 source (Gay/Rue). 2)You base your entire plan on pulling the enemy to a certain place (Doom's Retreat) to fight it. Um, what if he ...

The more I reread TOT, the more I dislike the Elohim. The lie, they are arrogant, they brag about their powers and then do nothing. Sort of like Greek Gods, now that I think of it. I am surprised no one asked them to correct the Sunbane though, that was definately within their wurd, being a problem ...

I don't know, in the TPTP it seems to indicate that the Giant's soul had long ago been crushed by the occupation of the Raver over a period of 8 years. The way I read the final battle between Mhoram and the Raver, the hesitation on Satanfists part was fear, pure and simple. He had already touched Mh...

But Bannor said, "You also caused the fall of High Lord Elena. You refused the burden of the Blood of Command and so she fell." This is when Lena learned of the death of her daughter, but read the words...it doesn't say TC slew Elena, nor did he directly cause her death. I think when Lena ...

Mhoram wasn't the only one capable of it though, the Unfettered One was able to nearly reach Mhoram and probably would have succeeded if he hadn't been interrupted.

It requires power, but I think it needs understanding of Earthpower even more.

No TC first noticed the ward, birinair then walked into it and im sure covenent pushed him through by contacting the white gold ring to destroy the ward Drool needed Fouls lore to use the stone and it was only cut into slithers three No, you are confusing the Word of Warning on the bridge that TC w...