kalkin, Eaters any good? Finishing Birth of Modern Politics , then on to Salt - A World History . It's pretty good, very original. Kind of a quick read, but good. Just finished Blasphemy by Douglas Preston. Now reading Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin....

Just finished A Pagan's Nightmare by Ray Blackston

Now reading The Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton

And don't forget that the Giants and the Old Lords lived a very long time.

Wow. Elena did not give Covenant a dull knife, she gave him the krill of Loric Vilesilencer, Highlord, a hero of the past. Something puissant. Something she didn't understand, but did trust, because it came from the Old Lords. Covenant didn't get angry because she gave him a knife to ride into battl...

Thousands of mummies lie in boxes in museums around the world. and nobody bats an eye.

Let 'em make a xylophone out of him for all I care.

I was under the impression that Loric forged the krill , which would place it after the making of Revelstone. The Giants, as seen in the second Chronicles, had no need of such tools for the working of stone. Besides, it clearly wasn't made for Giantish hands. And why just one, and why is it so good ...

I think I might love you, Avatar. :thumbsup: :thumbsup: I wrote something like that but was too chicken to leave it up. Of course it was highly inflammatory and poked the powers-that-be in the eye, but there you go. I am what I am. God, assuming he exists, could never be the kind of dick that would ...

Not if the Creator always knew he would not stay. The Creator knew Covenant, probably made him the way he was. I'd say it was a safe bet on his part. In a way, Covenant would not view the Land the way we do. We see the Land full of wonderful people and experiences. Covenant saw the Land full of dang...

Wasn't the reawakening of the Krill and Trell's ritual of desecration simply a happy coincidence? :lol: I hope not! Coincidence in novels such as the Chronicles would have a negitive impact on plot - one of the 'golden rules' in the craft of writing, I think. Coincidence might work in detective sto...

Even if you hide beams he'd have hit something. Bad luck, pure and simple.

Thank you for saying that! I don't post in Tolkien boards any more because some nitwit always says, "But in Letters..." Man, I hate that.

You can't push your butt out over the edge and expect to pull it back unharmed every time. Just won't happen. I am a little sick of the blame-gamery the networks have been engaging in, though. It is inherently dangerous to slide down a hill at 90 miles an hour with pretty much no protection. People ...

I salute your persistance, but they could both command the fire and work against each other at the same time. And it pretty much says so in the quote.

As for the krill pushing Trell over the edge, yeah I kinda think so as well. Just no way of knowing.

Interesting.

I think it would also be interesting to ponder if Foul was dumped into the Land about the same time that Covenant contracted leprosy. Covenant equals the Land; Foul equals leprosy.

Surely the run was tested before the games? When people put themselves in a position were they have little control and they try to go as fast as they can, this is going to happen. It's a shame, but it's going to happen.

This paragraph has always puzzled me, quote: from chapter 11, The Ritual of Desecration Confronting each other , standing almost face to face, the two Gravelingases wove their lore-secret getures, sang their potent rhadhamaerl invocations. While the fire raged as if Revelstone were about to crash d...

It just seems obvious that the krill is related to stone-lore simply because it was set into the stone table with relative ease and without breaking. And also my assumption that the stone in the hilt is orcrest . Bannor showed Covenant how to use orcrest to light the way out of Earthroot, so this c...

samadhi just never anticipated Mhoram would have enough power to do him in. He assumed that he'd be like any other Lord, and that he'd be able to use this radiation magic to stop Mhoram long before Mhoram could do enough damage to kill him. Perhaps if he had known that Mhoram had learned a knowledg...

Avatar wrote:I think we should respect everybodies right to have an opinion. But that doesn't mean you agree with it. I think it's also possible to respect an opinion without agreeing with it though.

--A

As I said, yes. I use a preemptive agreement.

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