Now that you mention this, I think I remember noticing that one of the "insane or otherwise amuck" giants (he was intent on murdering Linden) seemed to have a name which was portentous of his eventual madness. An unlikely coincidence, it seems, but I don't actually know when and how the g...

Hum. Frostheart Grueburn's the "scariest" (or grimmest name, if we omit Grimmand) name possessed by a giant not either insane or otherwise amuck, but her personality outside the battlegrounds appears to contradict this. Perhaps she merely wished to sound sinister. Now that you mention thi...

I'm not claiming it's necessarily easy or anything. Has taken me a good ten years of daily English utilization to end up with TCTCs in my shelf (Yes I read them in English. No Finnish translations exist, save for an appallingly sodomized LFB from the late 70's. I learned about that only after slogg...

Cambo wrote: Happywave Frothpaddler!

Welcome Vulgarian, with calls like that you should stick around.

Thankyou, Cambo. I shall pop back regularly.

Hi, Vulgarian, welcome. Thanks, Zorm. I'm incredibly impressed by people who can speak several languages. Did you read the TCCs in English? If so, that's even more impressive. I thought the "new" giants were pretty much the same as the old ones. I usually welcome the participation of the ...

Thanks, Savor Dan. I had a feeling I had the wrong name there, but knew someone here would have the right info.

Hello, Effaeldm, I've been bereft of the internet for about a week - sorry about the delay. I suppose my dislike of abridged novels is based on the presumption that anything which is deemed to be unnecessary will have been removed before first publication. I tend to agree with those who state that, ...

Hello, Wayfriend and Effaeldm, and thanks. Yes, I did rather jump in with all guns blazing. Re, abridged versions of TTCCs: Unfortunately, I have a serious dislike of abridged books. My favourite novels tend to be ones so big that you could almost use them as furniture. I would have been happy to ha...

Believe it or not, I am a fan of the TCCs on the whole. However, I can certainly identify with some of the criticisms which have been aimed at Runes of the Earth. Inspired by this thread, I’ve just gone through it again to see if the scales would fall from my eyes. As I remembered, there’s a lot of ...