Sorry, Orlion and Zarathustra! A mistake in editing, no harm intended! I liked the quote!

Auleliel - your evil, Despiteful prediction makes me suspect that you are a Raver. Should this prediction be true, I predict that you will be rent. :P Otoh, I really hope that Roger *does* trip on a pebble and fall off Landsdrop to a miserable ignominious death. I have no emotional connection to thi...

Btw, shadowbinding shoe, like you I was pleased to hear that the Insequent have generally avoided the Land out of fear. In the previous two volumes, it seemed like they were these mighty beings who felt the Land was beneath them...nice to know that the opposite was true, at least for the Insequent &...

Like Vraith and Auleliel, I'm really enjoying the read through! Will try to comment more cogently when I have the book in front of me, to make sure I don't spoil anything. Enjoyed the comments on community, although I'll have to think more about your comments on Linden (esp. the thing about not lear...

Yes, I can see why people would complain. It was an extraordinarily long time for characters to sit around in one spot and debate. I've never seen anything like it. No writer has ever attempted it, to my knowledge. The first 5 chapters are basically one long 103 page scene!! But I think that's exac...

Agreed, Vraith and Aliantha. In noting the pattern, I also note that TC got a direct visit from the Creator in the first Chronicles, and got *indirect warning via Linden* the second time. Linden got direct warning her first time, and *indirect warning via Jeremiah* the second time. Or what were Jere...

I meant to say "That is necessary for us to get both POVs during the Last Chronicles as well as the 2nd Chronicles, and for those POVs" <i> to match up</i>. In other words, when we switch from one consciousness to another, both consciousnesses have experienced the same events. That's impos...

No. Not for me, I mean. Yes, interesting thoughts, and I think SRD wants us to think stuff like this. But I find the shared dream theory *far* more incredible (as in, I cannot give it credence) than the parallel worlds one. For one, Linden and Covenant have to both be dreaming at the same time, and ...

Agreed with dlbpharmd - though the fanboy geek in me wants to know where wards 4-6. Just for the sake of reminder, shadowslance, we know the locations of 4 of Kevin's Wards. He left the first with, iirc, the Giants, who gifted it to the people of the Land. The Second Ward was found under Mt. Thunder...

Zarathustra - your second paragraph above had me belly-laughing for five minutes, esp. <i>pages of dialog so dense and abstruse that they would test the patience of a magically sentient thesaurus, a being of pure wordsmithing puissance made cognizant through earthpower and the undeniable desperation...

Z - I agree, in part, that the necessity of freedom stuff does seem to vary in how "absolute" it must be. Some of that may be due to Covenant, though - he's operating under different rules with Linden than his friends did with him, or than the Creator did with him (in the first Chronicles)...

Perfect example, Aliantha. Kevin's information about Covenant was right - TC *did* intend to give the ring into Foul's hands. But his interpretation of the act was horribly skewed by his own sufferings.

Akasri - I agree about the semi-annoying deus-ex-machina part. I was being semi-tongue-in-cheek by calling it handy. As in, without this, the world would end before you guys had time to walk anyway. But I can live with it. The trek from Revelstone to Andelain took long enough, and we've had plenty o...

AATE helps with this, as we now know that it wasn't that the Land's conflict was too small for them; it's that some of them came to grief in the Land's past and they decided the place was too dangerous! I still don't know what to make of the Insequent as a whole. The Harrow seems to have vastly over...

I think the voting analogy is a really good explanation of why unearned knowledge is dangerous. Sure, an informed electorate is preferable, but the question is, have the voters made an effort to be informed themselves? Have they put in the time and done the research? Or have they based their presume...

As Covenant says "all this is just words". Meaning words for Mythic things beyond our conception. So yeah, I agree with Vraith. Diassomer Mininderain, in the Clave's myth, is the Creator's wife. That's SWMNBN, a pre-Arch immortal and embodiment of (at least some form of) love. Her original...

I thought the pace was, hm, interesting. I mean, in the back of my head I did think "uh...you guys might want to get busy, the world is now officially in the process of ending." But on the other hand, I was choked up a number of times throughout the first few chapters, and the sheer weight...

The two most powerful implements of the Old Lords were the Staff of Law and Loric's <i>krill</i>. I think there's a nice symmetry to Covenant having a white gold ring and the krill and Linden having the white gold ring and a Staff of Law. As to rightful ring-wielders - I've never understood why Lind...

Yes, but the point is that Mhoram (who is the most awesome and lovable character to me) wasn't already "there" - he wasn't perfect and wrestled with his conscience. In particular, he was wrestling with the fact that he, who'd always said he believed in honesty and full trust of others, fou...

Mendacity - yep, and as I (meant to) indicate, I don't trust or excuse Findail - I just find him somewhat more sympathetic than Infelice, and find his statements easier to believe than hers because they're consistent with what we know apart from the Elohim. And yeah, the shadow and wound are clearly...