Correspondences? They are plentiful. The simplest one is that they all end with a confrontation between Covenant and Foul. Possibly that's so inherent in the stories that you discount that. But consider that Foul is always in a cave, and Covenant always fights his way in to get to him. Prior to thi...

We never really get to know any of the Giants, with the possible exception of Grueburn; And how would you describe your verdict? ;) I inquired SRD about the lack of backstories and physical attributes. His reply about the lack of space and mainly requiring a large fighting force in the LC's did not...

We never really get to know any of the Giants, with the possible exception of Grueburn; And how would you describe your verdict? ;) I inquired SRD about the lack of backstories and physical attributes. His reply about the lack of space and mainly requiring a large fighting force in the LC's did not...

Irrational Sanity: :lol: How the heck could I forget Pitchwife?? He's my favorite of all the Giants in the 2nd Chrons. I have a theory about diverging evolutionary paths among the main characters. Covenant's path seems to be all self-directed. Sure, he is given all kinds of lessons and aid, especial...

I thoroughly enjoyed LC as a story. How could anyone not enjoy the throbbing, pulsating, heartwrenching tale of the company's narrow escape from the Lost Deep, with SWMNBN breathing down their necks? Or shudder in awed horror at Elena's self-sacrifice? Or Covenant's confrontation with his ex-wife, a...

feel their hearts starting to open, just a glimmer, but enough to recognize Stave's worth and not only reinstate him within the Haruchai collective, but actually give him the position of Voice of the Masters. Also missing from the story is any real reason why Stave picked Canrik to be the first Hig...

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Seriously, you guys crack me up. "Leprosy ..." The thing about Linden's Army contemplating their navels (but you forgot cutting themselves) , the Linden's Army posts with the two warrior women, I laughed so...

Very, very well done, Wayfriend. Everything you say is the most complete delineation of the Haruchai's journey through their unresolved grief and shame to its final crisis and ultimate resolution that I think we're ever likely to get, other than what was already provided to us by the author in the s...

To wax excessively metaphysical, space and time exhibit a sort of symmetry that might allow for the Insequents' "wan mimicry of wild magic" as a function of this symmetry, i.e. the Insequent can do to the "Arch of Space" (supposing such a thing) what white gold can to the Arch o...

Thanks, TheFallen. With that in mind, I felt chinks in the 4th wall as soon as the idea of time travel was introduced. I feel that authors should avoid time travel like the plague unless they absolutely need it, as it introduces unresolvable paradoxes. In this case, to expand the possibilities of th...

I don't have the literary or psychological background that some of you have (what's the "Fourth Wall?"), but if TLD isn't didactic, I'm an Elohim! I think Donaldson's claim might have been valid in 2005, but certainly not now that he wrote a story where the whole matter of HOW the main cha...

Well, w/r/t Linden's journey to Andelain, it seems to me that Foul was just letting things play out, letting his allies and servants do their thing for their own reasons, but that maybe, if Linden looked incapable of surmounting those obstacles, he would have done something to "aid" her, l...

Of the Gap books, I've only read The Real Story . It didn't give me much desire to read further. Morn is just a complete, two-dimensional, cardboard cookie-cutter cutout caricature of a victim, and everyone else is a psychopath. I read one of the Mick Axbruder books; one of the more recent ones. I t...

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lurch wrote:...Betty...

So...is Al the creator's name? Or just what she can call him when she call's him?

So then SWMNBN's name is Benny?

I thought Esmer was simultaneously the most annoying (other than TC himself in the first two books) and the most intriguing character of all three Chronicles. The way his inner conflict is played out in his actions, especially some of the ways he manages to work for both sides at the same time (such...

It would have been interesting to have one of the main Three (TC, L or J) make it back to the normal world, and by so doing, better preserve the idea that Donaldson has long advanced, namely that the Chronicles are rooted in the real world, and feature main characters that have to survive there (co...

hurtloam...you scare me... I have already complted a dissect of chapter 1 of TLD..and I see the words I used in the dissect ,,in your post above.. like a sneak preview...actually ..its quite surreal..The idea that amongst human beings...we have a an immense amount in common..we are all connected. A...

Hey newbie hurtloam, the first letters mean "The Holy Order Of"... [[only people in serious error could call anything "Hate" related "Holy"...but that's the least of their problems.]] I'll avoid the rest of your questions and such, cuz it's way off topic...and while I'...

Wayfriend, what you said about the body sensations imposed by SWMNBN reminded me that they're an awful like those experienced under the Sun of Pestilence. Linden's facing the same issues later, but on a larger scale. The impression she gets from her parents, that life is useless suffering, that deat...

Come to think of it, Covenant's discovery of how to use the krill and white gold to jump across distances could be a backwards explanation of the device of the Ardent's power being a wan mimicry of wild magic. Also, that could explain how Covenant figures it out then when he hadn't, say while he, Li...