Now that a few more people have finished, I thought I'd bump this 2nd-page thread for some more input. Can anyone else tell me what "Law" is? I think you already have it. The natural order of things. Perhaps The Lurkers intelligence makes it a perversion of Law seeing as it's mother appea...

There's no such thing as Absolute Evil by nature, but there is certainly such a thing as evil (little 'e') by nature ... which is what Covenant acknowledged by internalizing his externalized-Despiser. Whatever we call "Evil" is merely a conceptual fiction, raised to the status of an Absol...

What happened to the last Raver? Did he survive the re-making of the world? If not, there is still a evil roaming free. I think it's quite clear from the text that moksha Jehannum survived and is still running free. I see him becoming the new "big bad" while Foul stays imprisoned within T...

It was me who posed the POV query in another thread (I'd never heard of Gilden Fire till I read it here) The lack of POV from the natives of the land lends them a certain unreality and makes it easy for Donaldson to despatch them without much thought. I suppose this problem is related to some of my ...

Yep, and a badly written one at that. Certainly not of the calibre to inspire a forum like this. Chronicles I and II were used as the bait for the stylistic switch of Last Chronicles.

This is honestly why I think he isn't worried about apparently carelessly tying off multiple narrative threads all at once (Longwrath, anyone? The skurj and the Sandgorgons all getting wiped out in the space of a page, anyone?) , or using clunking dei ex machinae such as SWMNBN and TC's sudden tele...

Welcome, Joe! Good to have a new voice around here! I'd suggest introducing yourself here: kevinswatch.ihugny.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3880 This way, you can begin to meet more members quicker and they can meet you. Also, since this topic is The First and Second Chronicles forum, there is to be n...

Sadly for me, 'AATE'. Endless 'inner voice' and reiteration - GET ON WITH IT. On rereading the series in prep for the latest book I found myself musing on how much filler the series contained. How much could easily be excised without in any way harming the story. I settled on 20-25% for the first ei...