On the point of sacrificing Trells family in order to save the world I think it is worth remembering that Lord Morham would not sacrifice the life of even one little girl - and one not even from his own world (one of the most touching scenes in the whole series to be found in TPTP) - in order to sav...

I have known a number of people who found LFB a slow starter but percevered to their eventual satisfaction. Me, I was hooked from page 1 and thought it was the attention to detail that was put into this part of the series that made the whole of The Land and its people such a rich and believable (no ...

YEAH! That cut right to the heart of the 'Yoda voice' issue and I think demolished it in one go. And it was as neat a bit of literary criticism in a couple of lines as I have come across. dlbpharmd - you rock! If the poem were truly written in "yoda voice," then it would start: In Beauty s...

Pretty damn close to the way I saw him! (I think the HBND thing is inevitable given Donaldsons description of him).

I think in Covenants case I would have used the Power in order to try to undo the harm I had done to Lena and her family (I know Covenant had tried to make reparation with the Ranhyin but this had clearly failed). I think the Kevin summoning idea was the bad idea to top all bad ideas - as indeed it ...

For me, High Lord Kevin has always been a larger than life figure. A huge man, full of both power and sadness, knowledge and pain - but with a capacity for compassion beyond any others, before or after. All this would be visible in his craggy bearded face and would be enough to inspire both awe and ...

It's a stunning piece of work Blackhawk, but man you need to be reading Fatal Revenant ASAP before doing any more artwork - you hear what I'm sayin'.

Trells despair had gone beyond the point of forgivness and redemption. It had reached that point where, akin to sunlight focused through a lens it had become every thing that he was, is, or ever would be. That was why he was able to enact the ritual of dessecration - he had become Fouls servant in a...

A bit of a digression from your question, but I have seen lots of different cover artworks for the books over the years and the ones that always do it for me best are still the original UK paperback covers. TC ic never depicted on them and the circular inset pictures always seem to get 'the feel' of...

I bet this is a pretty hackneyed theme but which one of us does not go all warm and gooey when we think of how we found our first Covenant book (hopefully LFB) and what it was like when we opened the very first page for the very first time. Here's my story. I was 19y.o.when I found Lord Fouls Bane i...

I guess the spoiler thing would have to be a real pain in the ass but myself, I can't imagine doing/reading/thinking anything else but reading a new SDR book from the moment I got my hands on it and untill I had reached the very last page - and thus, no spoiler will ever touch me!

Found the site via a link from the SRD entry on Wikipedia and really happy that I did! Still a real 'newbie' and having lots of fun just exploring the site and seeing whats here to do. I am so pleased that there are people just as crazy about the Land as I am! After half a life searching I never exp...

Came in via a link on the Stephen R donaldson page on Wikipedia. Very happy to be here. Still have a lot of work to do to suss out how it all works but am having a lot of fun at the moment just exploring and seeing whats going. I never realised there were people just as Covenant obsessed as me in th...

Not sure if the Ramen would have been found so far from the Plains of Ra (in the direction of the Watch at least) at the time of Winhome Gay etc. so would also go with Lena (or a young Elena given the blue robe......Heck, I don't know but I like it/them very much and wish I could do stuff like that!).

I think the designed use of 'Nekrimah' was exactly as Covenant used it - and possibly the Ur-viles were aware of exactly when and where it would be used; who can say to what heights (or depths) of knowledge their roynish lore had taken them!

Odd sort of question really, but I can't help wondering how different people visualise 'The Haruchai' in thier minds eye as they are reading. I know Donaldson describes them as sort of flat faced, impassive,expressionless and dark skinned, but this really tells us very little. Are they essentially h...

Probably really bad form to reply to your own posting, but just wanted to add that I've had a bit of a look round and think...I may be getting an idea of how this is done! This - I think - could be fun.

Sorry - forgot to answer the main question! Vain bared his teth in his version of 'grinning like a wolf' at the fact that 1) covenant had been forced to ask him for help - even in the face of constantly declaring his mistrust of him and 2) with the pleasure that any cruel individual gets at finally ...

I would need to re-read the section to be sure but I believe the saving of Covenant here would only constitute one use of the power as all of the incidents would come under one instance of sustained threat that one use of the command would cover.....er.....if that makes sense!

I think most of these replys sem to be missing the point. If I am correct you have read all of the previous novels before. If this is the case then a jump forward to reading 'the runes' will not cause the slightest problem as any references to 'what has gone before' will be easily intelligable to yo...