WF, you keep coming up with these concise insights. :wink: Without Troy, Elena could not have failed. Why is Troy so pivotal to Elena's failure? Well, I was thinking as I wrote that that Elena was free to follow Amok to the Seventh Ward because she was comfortable leaving Hile Troy to command the W...

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Jeremiah tells Stave he can give him the location of the remaining Wards. What you quoted is the only thing that makes sense in regards to their locations. Except that Jeremiah's conversation with Stave occurred after he, Linden and Covenant had reassembled the world, so it is quite plausible to su...

It seems to me that the Silmarillion is a hit or a miss that depends on why you liked LOTR. If it's the world building that grabs you, it's a probable hit. If it's the characters that make the story for you, or if you enjoyed Tolkien's take on little-guy-saves-world, then it's a probable miss. You ...

When Linden is possessed by moksha , she shares moksha 's memories of possessing Marid, possessing the bees that stung Covenant and possessing the man who thrust a spider at Covenant. BY a process of elimination this means that turiya would have possessed the rats that boarded Starfare's Gem to atta...

Greatness does not come from power, or from perfection. It comes from rising above our imperfections and using what power we have in the service of what we believe in our hearts. This gels with my view that Despite is the curdled cosmic principle of perfection - the aspiration/inspiration to be bet...

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I'm currently re-reading The Handmaid's Tale.

Yes, Naomi Watts fits my mind's eye picture of Linden.

How old was Linden when she met TC? I figure she was just out of her internship at a hospital and she was accepted a job at a hospital. That would put her between 28 to 30. The last chronicles she would have been around 40.. Those ages are pretty much what I have always thought were Linden's ages i...

Here is Honniscrave in TOT on the Elohim and the gift of tongues: From time to time, their power is given in gift. Such is the gift of tongues, won for our people in a time many and many generations past, yet still unwaning and untainted. From the First Chronicles we know that Saltheart Foamfollower...

Let's just remind ourselves of what Covenant actually does to Lena in that scene. He hits her in the face, advances on her with a look on his face that makes her fear he wants to kill her, rips open her shift, forces her to the ground and then rapes her. Nothing morally nuanced or liminal about it -...

Looking back up the thread to the posts about the Worm as a possible candidate to do Lord Foul's bidding, I think a sticking point here is the kind of being the Worm is. I can't think of any passage of the Chronicles that suggests that the Worm is the kind of being that makes choices or that can exp...

Are they guilty of condoning? What about the practical matter of Covenant being necessary for the Land's survival? It's not like Revelstone had a lock-up for miscreants. That's not what the people of the Land did. And then there's Mhoram, who understood Covenant best, and he saw that Covenant's act...

Was Covenant's crime widely known about in the Land/Revelstone; I think it must have been Perhaps not. In TIW Hile Troy doesn't know about Covenant's crime until Covenant himself told Troy that it was the reason why Trell attacked him. If it was common knowledge, the Warmark would have been likely ...

Then again, Mhoram might have asked Covenant what he was going to do so save the little girl from snakebite. Covenant: "I'm going to cut a cross-shaped incision on her leg where she's been bitten, and then I'm going to suck out the venom." Mhoram: "Ur-Lord, I'm sorry but that's probab...

A final bite. At various times in The First Chronicles we see that the exercise by the Lords of the Lore of the Staff requires some physical and emotional exertion, at times to the point of prostrating themselves. And of course the exercise of the Lore of the Sword would have been quite a physical b...

Reading through the thread, and also recalling the point I made earlier in this discussion, the question seems to me to boil down to the following alternative possibilities: 1. By refusing to submit to despair and by continuing (or learning) to believe in their capacity to make choices that matter, ...

Insofar as labels such as "capitalist" or "socialist" must be used, the society of the Land is clearly more accurately (or less inaccurately) described by the latter term than by the former. However I think that the deeper point is that the Land doesn't really have an economy as ...

I think a Utopia is a disturbing kind of thing. It's an extreme, absolute kind of society, isn't it? Everything must be perfect, everyone must be happy, or else... Which means there is no possibility of progress, right? Once a state of perfection and happiness is reached, it's either going to stay ...