The "barrier" may be no more than what quantum physics has already postulated about parallel universes (see the recent episode of "The Universe" for the theory). The only flaw people may see in this is the knowledge that exists on The Land's side about TC and LA's eventual coming...

Well and come, 24hours ago. I'm a newbie to the site who's been reading the books for 30 years, and still find new things

I spent years listening to how CTC was just a weak LOTR rip-off (e.g., how the Haruchai were a rip of the Fighting Uruk-Hai ). My argument was that Covenant was very much the "anti-Frodo" - there was nothing heroic about him at all, especially in the First Chronicles. He was the loner who ...

"We dream that we will make amends... Yet ev'ry hope is but a Wraith.." Found website through SRD's acknowledgements in Fatal Revenant . First read LFB in college; tried to use the trilogy in a Lit class but the prof. told me it was a "short-lived work" no one would ever remembe...