Mine came also on Tuesday the 15th . My problem - I don't want to start it because I can't stand the thought of finishing it! I have started the "What Came Before " section and was surprised to find SRD giving some insight into the previous books that I hadn't noticed. So, tonight, some wh...

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...

“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...

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...

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...

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.

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This topic could take up an entire new category for this site, as could the "meaning" of SRD's other books. 1. SRD has written extensively on his website about his style of primarily addressing characters and developing them, rather than starting with a message and trying to get that acros...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

I disagree with the notion that Pitchwife was a "guinea pig". I took the idea of "trusting herself later" to refer to Linden's need to keep her compassion for individuals ahead of her need for control and of being a "hero". If she hadn't paused to care about her compani...

Terrific job, Furls! This chapter is the opposite of the previous chapter, ineptly dissected by yours truly and named "The Darkest Hour". We now enter the time of the greatest light for people of the land; their Dawn beginning the era when they will go for many years without the evil influ...

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".

“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...

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 ...

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...

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...