And then I never did that again
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- peter
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I reached the bit where he goes off to his place by the lake and then fizzled........ The story was not really getting me and it was all a bit "It's behind you!" On Z.'s appraisal I may resume it at a later point, but I have my doubts.
The truth is a Lion and does not need protection. Once free it will look after itself.
....and the glory of the world becomes less than it was....
'Have we not served you well'
'Of course - you know you have.'
'Then let it end.'
We are the Bloodguard
....and the glory of the world becomes less than it was....
'Have we not served you well'
'Of course - you know you have.'
'Then let it end.'
We are the Bloodguard
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Gene Wolfe practically cannot stop doing this. In the first chapter of Shadow of the Torturer, he tells you how the whole series ends. He tells you of future events dozen times in the first dozen chapters. But it's subtle, in that it is understated.
I think this is connected to the concept of an unreliable narrator. Except he's not unreliable ... just ... non-linear. A bad narrator.
I think this is connected to the concept of an unreliable narrator. Except he's not unreliable ... just ... non-linear. A bad narrator.
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I was doing a reread of LOTR recently and I noticed that Tolkien does it. When the Fellowship are in Lothlorien Aragorn shows Frodo Cerin Amroth, and the last words in the chapter are, '...he left the hill of Cerin Amroth and came there never again as mortal man.'
Here Tolkien is actually setting up a bit of misdirection, as there is an implication that Aragorn is going to be killed.
u.
Here Tolkien is actually setting up a bit of misdirection, as there is an implication that Aragorn is going to be killed.
u.
Tho' all the maps of blood and flesh
Are posted on the door,
There's no one who has told us yet
What Boogie Street is for.
Are posted on the door,
There's no one who has told us yet
What Boogie Street is for.
- Orlion
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The way you wrote that, it seemed that 'he left the hill...' referred to Frodo, and I thought to myself: of course! Frodo is a hobbit, not a mortal man!ussusimiel wrote:I was doing a reread of LOTR recently and I noticed that Tolkien does it. When the Fellowship are in Lothlorien Aragorn shows Frodo Cerin Amroth, and the last words in the chapter are, '...he left the hill of Cerin Amroth and came there never again as mortal man.'
Here Tolkien is actually setting up a bit of misdirection, as there is an implication that Aragorn is going to be killed.
u.
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Govern the reasoning creature, man.
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I was slightly lax there, but since it isn't the 'Tank I'm not likely to lose numerous layers of skin!
I see how you can make that connection, as Merry stabs the Lord of the Nazgul to fulfill part of the prophecy that he shan't be killed by the hand of a mortal man.
u.
I see how you can make that connection, as Merry stabs the Lord of the Nazgul to fulfill part of the prophecy that he shan't be killed by the hand of a mortal man.
u.
Tho' all the maps of blood and flesh
Are posted on the door,
There's no one who has told us yet
What Boogie Street is for.
Are posted on the door,
There's no one who has told us yet
What Boogie Street is for.
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In part, but she could not have done it if the Witch-king wasn't stabbed by the magical blade which was made for stabbing Witch-kings that Merry happened to stumble upon in some graves that he just so happened to be rescued from by the embodiment of God.Avatar wrote:I thought Eowyn fulfilled it, being a woman...
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'Tis dream to think that Reason can
Govern the reasoning creature, man.
- Herman Melville
I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all!
"All creation is a huge, ornate, imaginary, and unintended fiction; if it could be deciphered it would yield a single shocking word."
-John Crowley
Govern the reasoning creature, man.
- Herman Melville
I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all!
"All creation is a huge, ornate, imaginary, and unintended fiction; if it could be deciphered it would yield a single shocking word."
-John Crowley