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- Wed Oct 16, 2013 9:25 pm
- Forum: The Last Dark
- Topic: It just arrived yesterday!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4596
- Tue Jul 24, 2007 10:45 am
- Forum: The First and Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
- Topic: The Elohim - a question from GI
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4877
Couple of responses
1. Consider the possibility that Donaldson himself is, figuratively, an Elohim! He "knows" the future (because he creates it), he has a tendancy towards being sarcastic, and he "tests" his readers! 2. I personally really enjoyed the Historian, but also felt the ending was weak. T...
- Sun Apr 22, 2007 11:42 pm
- Forum: Last Chronicles
- Topic: Runes, Part 2 Chapter 8 - "Contrive their salvation"
- Replies: 20
- Views: 11357
Runes, Part 2 Chapter 8 - "Contrive their salvation"
“When had she been certain of anything besides her loves? The chapter begins as Linden has renewed her use of “the only power which had ever truly belonged to her”, the Staff of Law. The wanyhim have been healed to their astonishment. They can only express their thanks through “raw-edged sounds”, b...
- Tue May 02, 2006 5:22 am
- Forum: Last Chronicles
- Topic: Sign up to Dissect The Runes of the Earth
- Replies: 195
- Views: 59473
Contrive their salvation please for senor trout
Could I please do "contrive their salvation". (Should be a safe time after our daughter's wedding this fall!). I really enjoyed doing one chapter in WGW, near the end. This new work seems so much deeper, harder to understand, and I've read it so much less than the first two triologies -thi...
- Tue Mar 07, 2006 1:03 am
- Forum: The First and Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
- Topic: Peoples reactions to Covenant
- Replies: 36
- Views: 8472
It's a test of worthiness!
I have bought at least 15 entire sets of the first chronicles and given them to friends, only one or two have managed to read them, perhaps the only one with enthusiasm was my 12 year old nephew! I have decided it is a test of worthiness, akin to when Covenant is given the wooden staff to catch at R...
- Sun Feb 05, 2006 2:29 pm
- Forum: The First and Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
- Topic: Would you use white gold as your wedding ring
- Replies: 76
- Views: 19335
Got one
I've had a white gold wedding ring for 28 years now; I got married just before I read the first trilogy for the first time. I look quite a bit like Covenant in the Wounded Land paperback cover (at Glimmermere). I'm just waiting for MGM to call.
senor trout
senor trout
- Sun Jan 29, 2006 1:20 am
- Forum: The First and Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
- Topic: What is the central message that SRD is trying to convey?...
- Replies: 63
- Views: 13418
- Tue Nov 15, 2005 2:16 am
- Forum: The First and Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
- Topic: The Wounded Land
- Replies: 30
- Views: 4203
The Wounded Land has always been my favorite. I was browsing in a library, and didn't realize another trilogy had been started. I picked it up, and initially thought it was some trade type of romance or something, then was astonished to see another Covenant book. I went home, started it in bed, and ...
- Tue Sep 20, 2005 12:08 am
- Forum: The First and Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
- Topic: Have the Covenant novels impacted your life?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3687
TCTC and my life
Here's what I sent in reply to this question: I am a family physician in a small rural community. I first found the first trilogy lying in an empty ICU in an inner-city hospital where I was training. I was fascinated from the start, and especially fascinated by the second trilogy - waited for them i...
- Sun Apr 24, 2005 1:41 pm
- Forum: The First and Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
- Topic: Rare 7th Book
- Replies: 39
- Views: 7208
why it was cut out
SRD wrote somewhere (prior to the creation of his gradual interview) about Gildenfire and why it was deleted. As alluded to above, this work is from the viewpoint of the bloodguard, and also from the Lords. Thus, the story is known only to characters from the Land. So, if presented as written, it wo...
- Sat Mar 05, 2005 5:21 pm
- Forum: The Runes of the Earth
- Topic: WOW II - great-granddaddy of all spoilers
- Replies: 49
- Views: 12558
Some more ideas
Regarding the idea that perhaps the whole thing was just in Covenant's imagination; I believe somewhere in the gradual interview SRD mentions that after the 2nd or 3rd book of the first chronicles, that he presumed that everyone understood that the Land was real. I think it had to do with the questi...
- Sat Jan 15, 2005 9:50 pm
- Forum: The First and Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
- Topic: The Afterlife in the Land?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1862
Who knows?
There are several theories about what happens in the afterlife. One of you feels that Kevin came right from the Ritual of Desecration to his summoning by Elena. Thus, he wasn't really anywhere until that law was broken. Thus, no real afterlife. However, when Covenant meets "his dead", they...
- Tue Nov 30, 2004 2:23 am
- Forum: The Runes of the Earth
- Topic: Big Theory: Thomas Covenant and Foul combined?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3671
TC is Foul
Regarding the theory that Covenant is Foul: In one of his oldest interviews (probably on his web site), SRD said something like the following: In the 1st Chronicles, Covenant defeats Foul In the 2nd Chronicles, Covenant surrenders to Foul ( although not really, if you consider how he then promptly d...
- Thu Nov 25, 2004 4:58 am
- Forum: 2nd Chronicles
- Topic: WGW Chapter 20: The Sun-Sage
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9669
- Tue Nov 23, 2004 10:38 pm
- Forum: 2nd Chronicles
- Topic: White Gold Wielder, Chapter 19: Hold Possession
- Replies: 28
- Views: 21332
- Sat Nov 13, 2004 5:10 pm
- Forum: The First and Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
- Topic: What happened to Hile Troy?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 5887
SRD and Hile Troy
If you have the time (I don't today) look through SRD's October and November gradual interview post's. I think he addressed the issue of whether Hile Troy was "real" in the "real world"; I think he said he intended for him to have indeed been "real".
- Tue Nov 09, 2004 3:47 am
- Forum: 2nd Chronicles
- Topic: WGW chapter 18: No Other Way
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8449
WGW chapter 18: No Other Way
“The darkest hour” As this chapter begins, once again Thomas Covenant has been attacked, knocked unconscious, and his companions lost to him. Once again he lies “Like a sacrifice on the floor”. As in the wightbarren in his very first summoning; as on Kevin’s Watch; as on the rocks behind Haven Farm...
- Sat Nov 06, 2004 11:25 pm
- Forum: 2nd Chronicles
- Topic: WGW Chapter 16 - "Andelain! Forgive!"
- Replies: 35
- Views: 22413
Despite=Terry Brooks
Boy, I am afraid for Danlo: In the Land, the worst you can do is to give in to Despite, to join up with the Ravers and boys, maybe shed the blood of a Haruchai or two; Here in "The Real World", the equivalent is to admit that you like Terry Brooks! "The little company trudged on into ...
- Sat Nov 06, 2004 3:55 pm
- Forum: The Runes of the Earth
- Topic: The Ceasures
- Replies: 79
- Views: 16732
stephen hawking!
I believe it was Stephen Hawking who said that he thought time travel was either impossible or would never be invented; otherwise, we would be seeing time travelers by now! SRD will have fun with the consequences of time travel in the next 3 books. So far he's been taking the Star Trek approach; the...
- Tue Nov 02, 2004 1:39 am
- Forum: The Runes of the Earth
- Topic: Anele - the true meaning
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2643
anele/elena
I noticed that anele was elena spelled backwards early in the book, and was even a bit disappointed to find that there was another explanation for his existence. A couple of thoughts: Do we really know "he" is male? - he is old, but hasn't duffed his drawers yet! Maybe he is Elena, but jus...