It occurs to me that if time travel (backwards) is possible then overall entropy could be decreased. I am a physics teacher. This idea interests me. Could this have a metaphorical meaning in TLC?

When I read TLD I experienced the sinking feeling that many on The Watch have expressed. About a year later I reread it, this time aloud, to my girlfriend. While doing this I experienced the story quite differently. The many things that seemed wrong before no longer seemed to be. Objectively I still...

While I would say that the changes you mention would make sense to have been instrumental in making TC prepared, this is not so easy to get from reading the LC (I found). When I read the end of WGW, TC's love for Linden was so incredibly clear and powerful (I felt so anyway) it didn't feel like ther...

I agree with you. Even if TC were in a position to assimilate Foul at the end of WGW, SWMNBN would still be in the Land and it's my opinion that her release from within the Arch was a vital part of restoring the Creator. Also, Foul's absence need not have stopped Kastenessen from trying to destroy t...

Possibly being worm food is like being Appointed, it's a constraint on the freedom that the Elohim crave which obliges them to become something less edifying but more necessary for the world to exist. The Elohim might not like that but it would be necessary. It's like asking what's the point of soul...

It has been asked why TC couldn't absorb LF at the end of WGW. I think it is because Foul wasn't weakened then, as he was weakened at the end of TLD by SWMNBN slapping him down, making him small and "...almost material.", rather like he was at the end of TPTP. At the end of WGW when Foul w...

I think that SWMNBN was the Creator's heart. The Creator from earlier chronicles was the mind of the Creator, split from its heart. Foul's 'deeper purpose' was to trap SWMNBN in the Earth when the Arch was destroyed, to destroy the Creator's heart. If SWMNBN was named then it would make her recognis...

Thoughtcube, in my opinion you're on the right track. Others are entitled to their own opinions, of course, but I didn't want you face the opposition alone. It's not merely a subjective opinion that Lord Foul's plan was not as clear, straightforward, or even as threatening as his plans in the past....

Simanent, it seems to me that, in the Last Chronicles, Lord Foul whispered words here and there, and tried to get a whole lot of help destroying the Earth. He was defeated because Linden and Covenant got a whole lot of help saving the Earth - quite a number of sacrifices were made. The points that ...

I am aware of the many criticisms of TLD and LC generally, however, I felt that LC could have ended in a way that would have made them seem very good (but that didn't happen). My concept is that the FC and SC had endings in which LF's defeat depended on the means he had employed to attack The Land a...

From the Creator's absence in this Chronicles, to SRD's frustration with Creator questions in the GI, I think it's safe to assume that he didn't like how readers were interpretting the Creator as a literal, external being in the "real world." Maybe he even grew to dislike his own handling...

The kid who handed TC the paper with the metaphysical riddle from the Creator saw him. Ah! I suppose it's arguable that there could have been an old man in the town who gave a child a note but that he was just an old man and the note wouldn't have said anything to anyone except TC and that subseque...

Did anyone in 'our' world apart from TC and LA ever see the creator? Did anyone other than they, Roger, Joan and perhaps someone in the community of retribution ever see LF's eyes in fire or lighting? What I'm implying is that the creator can be considered just as ambiguously real and 'internal' as ...

dlbpharmd wrote:

Publishers decision to make the book short was really unhelpful in this respect.

Do we know that this happened?

Personally I don't. Seems to be the consensus though.

native wrote: I note that the narrative structure of the story arc and the structure of the arch of time react to the breaking of rules in roughly the same way. I don't know if this was intentional but the narrative structure of the story also collapsed towards the end. Maybe SRD was trying to say ...

TheWormoftheWorld'sEnd wrote: Of course we all feel guilt. But Covenant's is a religious-like conscience in which he - basically - compares himself to Satan. He acts like an adult who had a super-religious parent as a child who always scared him with the dire threat of Hell. Perhaps he did have suc...

TheWormoftheWorld'sEnd wrote: Of course we all feel guilt. But Covenant's is a religious-like conscience in which he - basically - compares himself to Satan. He acts like an adult who had a super-religious parent as a child who always scared him with the dire threat of Hell. Perhaps he did have suc...

A woman, betrayed by her lover.

LENA?[/quote]

I have no doubt that SHE would love to consume Lena just as Elena was consumed, but I doubt that She is Lena.[/quote]

It doesn't make a lot of sense. I just thought nothing had been said about Lena for a long time. Did she appear in Andelain lately?

SGuilfoyle1966 wrote:If this is the culmination of all the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, SHE has to be someone we've met before.
I vote for Osondrea. She was just a bit of a witch, if you catch my drift.

A woman, betrayed by her lover.

LENA?

but I agree that Revelstone will be a big part of the Last Dark. I am much loking forward to (hopefully) some real 'storytelling' re the Haruchai/Masters thread of the story, which to date has been hinted at but not explored. Something, maybe a lot, but at least one major turning point, has to happ...