I agree with you about the lack of grandeur in the 3rd Chron. The "present" is pretty boring. The Land lacks everything that made it magical in the 1st Chron. Often the most interesting things that happen are only when they travel back in time. I don't agree with you about the Insequent n...

Considering how completely Foul succumbed to Covenant's rope-a-dope strategy at the end of The Second Chronicles, I'd be inclined to back Berek.

I've been re-reading the chapter "Love and Strangers" in FR, and Jeremiah tells Linden that the arch in his bedroom is a kind of tunnel through which he can travel between realities. This might settle the matter, except that we subsequently learn that Jeremiah is possessed by a croyel and ...

I dont see the curruption of once 'normal folk' rather a forced geneticly engenered use of base flesh by use of the IES to duplicate clone and grow deformed lifeforms that are fouls army The Chrons are a lot less detailed about the Land, or issues such as the origin of Foul's army, than LoTR. The S...

One scene which nobody has mentioned yet is the aftermath of the burning of Soaring Woodhelven and the subsequent battle. Perhaps this is because, as well as being moving, the scene also included arguably Covenant's most gratuitously insufferable behaviour of the entire Chronicles. After almost thir...

Just noticed something... the title to this chapter is in the Prologue to Runes. It's referring to Joan, and also just happens to hint at what TC will experience... "... in effect, she had experienced more mortality than her chronological years could contain. Helpless to do otherwise, her fles...

Not exactly tears in my eyes, but two moving scenes come to mind:

* Sunder grieving for Hollian in WGW, and especially the scene where he attempts to feed her corpse aliantha;

* the scene with the jheherrin, Foamfollower and Covenant in TPTP.

What we're discussing is a period of about two thousand years in which the increasing ease with which the Lords were able to get results, and thus the weakening of the Law, would have been incremental, and the fact that those results were clearly beneficial in the short term would have been what imp...

I believe the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 7th Wards were eventually found. Check out "Soothtell" in TWL. Basically right. The First Ward was kept by the Giants and handed back to the people of the Land when they returned after the Ritual of Desecration. The Second Ward was found in Mount Thunder in...

Umm.....what book did you read? :lol: The only gain from the rending that we know about was the ability to communicate in the way the Haruchai talk to themselves. Yes, but if you remember, in WGW Nom tells Cail, who tells Covenant and Linden, that "from the rending of the Raver the Sandgorgon ...

I am kicking myself for not thinking of this sooner, but we need to remember that Nom became a much smarter and more potent being after rending and absorbing samadhi Sheol. Therefore the answer to the poll question will, for me, change depending on whether we are talking about the pre-rending Nom, ...

IIRC, the castle was described as a faery-like and magical structure. Maybe it represents something like the home of the Elohim? Or maybe something the Viles created in the Lost Deep? My thoughts were also along the lines of something the Viles had created (and which might be found to still exist).

I am kicking myself for not thinking of this sooner, but we need to remember that Nom became a much smarter and more potent being after rending and absorbing samadhi Sheol. Therefore the answer to the poll question will, for me, change depending on whether we are talking about the pre-rending Nom, w...

I have finished reading the First and Second Chronicles and am now falling down with Linden, Anele and the rubble of Kevin's Watch in TROTE. It has been an enlightening experience in a number of respects. One is that each time I re-read the earlier Chronicles, in particular the First, I find myself ...

SRD gives no explicit pointers about Troy's ethnicity one way or the other, so to that extent we can let our imaginations roam free. However I'd add the following point. Nobody that Covenant encountered in the Land in LFB was described as being of African-American appearance, and neither were any of...

On balance, Vain. Vain is invulnerable to anythng except theurgies (such as those of the Clave, the Elohim and the warped ur-viles) which are aimed directly at deconstructing him. Unless Nom has access to such powers (which we can't rule out - many of SRD's peoples and creatures have ineffable abili...

I have just finished re-reading the first part of TROTE. On the day Roger abducts Jeremiah and Joan, we learn that Jeremiah has constructed Lego models of Revelstone and Mount Thunder in the lounge room, a Tinker Toy model of an elaborate castle in the hallway, and has previously completed, in his b...

Bear in mind that Troy also utters an entire sentence of military jargon from the "real" world when telling Covenant about his origins.

I don't think it necessarily follows that Kevin might be behind Longwrath's obsession. Remember that Kevin waited and watched in silence while Linden summoned Covenant and the Lawbreakers. It was only after she resurrected Covenant and roused the Worm that Kevin called on her to be slain and the Mas...

I thought of a third possibility on the way to work this morning. Lord Foul, when he was either a member or trying to become a member of Lord Kevin's Council, told Kevin and the other Lords about white gold and wild magic as a way of winning their trust, and also because attempts to bring white gold...