Dear Blackhawk, Love the picture, no problems with Kevin's Watch. Like TC I have a fear of heights, so In understand his reluctance to descend in LFB. My problem is the country shown below the Watch, I never imagined it to be as hilly or as rocky as shown, it is afterall named the South Plains. Hya...

I've just started rereading the chronicles. It's been quite a few years. :D Do they have the power to make you choke back the tears as you meet old friends again that you had previously forgotten about? (This Happened to me last time I re-read them after a gap of many years. Either I am going soft ...

SGuilfoyle1966 wrote:What was the question again?

Something about how was the first Staff of Law cut from the One Tree when Covenant had such a job trying to secure the second.

8O 8O 8O 8O (Peter staggers back in amazement and sits down in order to compose himself.)"Heard my ears aright!", (thanks for the right words Rocksister) - The Bloodguard not make any difference!!!!! What fresh lunacy is this. Shame on you Wayfriend. Shame on you too HLT. And greatest sham...

All I know for sure is, when I read them the first time, I kept waiting for just ONE day of Savagery Sun, just to see what would happen to everyone. It could have happened while they were on the Quest for the One Tree, and then the horrors could have been told by Sunder and Hollian. I assumed those...

Like Akasri, it's a long time since I read these stories - but I like the question because I remember at the time being a little puzzled by this very point. In respect of the Oathof Peace am I right in thinking that even though they discovered that it was the Oath that was hindering thier advancemen...

Vader wrote:TC couldn't because White Gold would have woken up the WoTWE. Berek didn't have white gold and there was no guardian. So for him it was find that tree, get there, cut off a branch and
Bob's your uncle ... he had the SoL.

I'm thinking this about sums it up

Regarding Sunbane fertility - take something good, break it horrifically, and give it back. That's the essence of Lord Foul, because it engenders despair. Uncontrolled growth/fertility is known to us on Earth as cancer. dw I get this DukkaWaynhim, but what I was refering to was 'fertility' in the o...

Am I right in thinking that this refers to 'A Jeroth of the Seven Hells - the mythology of the Land at the time of the Clave etc. I don't remember the passage where the seven hells are named (though I don't doubt its existence) but even given that they are, is there any reference to thier being rela...

I think it is often the case that 'minds' under extreme duress mishear/misunderstand what is going on all about them and over-react accordingly, either internally or in external action. I think this is what Donaldson is aiming at here rather than a clue or bridge to the reality of the Land via the i...

I think that for a 'creation' as epic in scale as the Land, its inhabitants and the story that unfolds as we read, it is inevitable that inconsistancies of behaviour, of actions, and indeed of narative flow will creep in - hell, they creep into 'real life' let alone into artificial constructs (how m...

Everything that happens manages to get there regardless of how the characters feel or what they want. The land is not so different then to the world that we live in, and the chances of there being 'free will' (as opposed to a deterministic world where all of thier actions are pre-determined) are ab...

Thanks to Fist and Faith and Savor Dam for thir links to 'It cannot Now......' Looking forward to reading it/them very much.

You seemed to hold your own pretty well to me Wayfriend, and I'm afraid (sorry CB!) that I do have much sympathy with the view that accuracy or otherwise in the small details is bound to effect the way people will view the whole.

Wow! Thanks Menolly - That was a bit of an eye-opener. I think I might just stick to the reading of SRD's books and leave the literary criticism to those better suited to it than me!

Has anybody read Christine Barkley's book 'Stephen R Donaldson and the Modern Epic Vision', and if so - is it any good. I found reference to it in the 'Links' page and am quite interested in what she has to say, but it ain't cheap and getting it to the UK will cost as well. A bit of feedback as to h...

Eagerly awaiting the conclusion of " It cannot now be set aside, nor passed on ", Fist and Faith's fanfiction version of the fate of Korik's mission after the events in Seareach. If you have not read parts 1 and 2, you are in for a treat! Find them in the Hall of Gifts. I'm probaly being ...

The Illearth War was my fave so far anyway. :) It's my first time reading all of the books. I'm on White Gold Wielder. :) Bannor probably did hook up with those girls. We saw Cail go back to the Merewives, afterall ;) No - I don't believe Bannors Haruchai nature would ever let his fidelity to his f...

It is fairly clear that the Haruchai feature highly as one of the major 'creations' of Donaldson in making the Land what it is and what we love. But answer me this - Do all the Haruchai, including the Bloodguard, have just one personallity. Is Bannor the same individual as Brin or even Stave, in the...

Yep. I've always thought of Sherpas, partly because they also live among the high peaks and frozen desolate wastelands. I have done a few trips in Nepal and Tibet and the Himalayan mountain people are indeed the closest thing to the Haruchai that I have met. They are 'capable' in a way that surpass...