A Warning about the Third Chronicles!

Post by **Earthblood** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 11:55 am

How many of us had a difficult time with the Wounded Land when the second chrons first came out? I did. People still complain about Linden Avery and SRD's treatment of the Land in that book verses the beauty of the land in the first chrons. But, we all now have a great love of the WHOLE story, first & second chrons together, don't we? I do. Thats why I have no doubt I'm gonna love the third chrons & probly hate Roger (based on the prologue).

BTW Darth, how could The Return of the King be a let down for you???
Aragorn brings the dead back to fight, Frodo & Sam struggle thru Mordor to single handedly bring down Sauron.....then the Hobbits go back to the Shire & kick Sauruman & Grimma's collective arses.....a GREAT book, magnificently written!!

Post by **Revan** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 1:33 pm

Earthblood wrote:BTW Darth, how could The Return of the King be a let down for you??? Aragorn brings the dead back to fight, Frodo & Sam struggle thru Mordor to single handedly bring down Sauron.....then the Hobbits go back to the Shire & kick Sauruman & Grimma's collective arses.....a GREAT book, magnificently written!!

hmmm... I don't know how to explain it... but I'll try...

... It said on the back that "Elves, Ents, Eagles, Men and Dwarfs come together to defeat the forces of evil..." so I thought there was going to be a massive battle where everyone coms together to kick Saurons ass... So the first time I read it... I was let down... but fear not...

I loved it the second time round... and it's one of my favorite books.

Post by **Earthblood** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 2:40 pm

I'm glad you came to your senses, Darth....

One of my prized book possesions is a hardcover, slip case edition of The Lord of The Rings, so the last 4 or 5 times I've read it, it has really been in the form of one long book, so the ROTK (or FOTR or TTT) don't really stand out as seperate books for me any more....which, I guess is what I was saying about the chrons - I look at them as a whole, not as seperate parts. And as a whole, I'm sure SRD will not dissapoint!

Post by **W.B.** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 4:41 am

If I recall correctly, Tolkien didn't actually want LOTR split into separate books; the publisher did it to prevent the book from being HUGE.

Post by **Revan** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 8:16 am

Earthblood wrote:And as a whole, I'm sure SRD will not dissapoint!

Me too.

Post by **Variol Farseer** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 11:41 am

W.B. wrote:If I recall correctly, Tolkien didn't actually want LOTR split into separate books; the publisher did it to prevent the book from being HUGE.

Yep. Tolkien was actually quite snippy about it:

J.R.R. Tolkien wrote:A work of great length can, of course, be divided up artificially into more handy bulks: the sort of process that produced sections of the big Oxford Dictionary labelled 'ONOMASTICAL — OUTING' and 'SIMPLE to SLEEP'.

I recall that Tolkien never much liked the individual volume titles either, especially The Two Towers. Maybe he should have called it 'EMYN MUIL to ORTHANC'.

Of course, nowadays it's a feature, not a bug. Even if it were possible to bind all 50 million pages of The Wheel of Time in one set of covers, the publishers wouldn't do it. By making it into a whole shelf of separate books, they can charge you thirty bucks for each one.

Post by **dANdeLION** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 6:27 pm

I was all set to buy these books, But then I read Revan's post telling me to not get my hopes up. Bummer. I guess I'll just order the latest 27 books in the Xanth trilogy instead......

Post by **birdandbear** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 9:48 pm

Gahh!!!

Post by **Worm of Despite** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 10:36 pm

Matrixman wrote:Lord Revan makes a good point (really he does)

BLASPHEMY!

Post by **matrixman** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 11:16 pm

Lord Foul wrote:
Matrixman wrote:
Lord Revan makes a good point (really he does)

BLASPHEMY!

Darth Revan wrote:Take that comment back! I do not make a good point!

This is what happens when you get caught between a Lord of the Sith and a Lord of Despite.

I'm outta here...(launches into Neo super-jump)

Post by **A Gunslinger** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 11:46 pm

Matrixman wrote:Iryssa! Welcome back! You missed all the fun...and pies.

Lord Revan makes a good point (really he does) and I abide by it.

As for Murrin's recommendation to re-read the books right before Runes: yessir, that's what we're doing in Dissection.

MAtrix...why encourage him? For the love of Gawd....WHY!!!!!????

Post by **W.B.** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 4:12 am

Variol

Nothing like dry, snippy British wit.

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 1:13 pm

I'm unsure as to how much I will be able to like these books. I find it hard to think that I'll not get to see the Land through Covenant's eyes - it'll be strange, I liked Covenant a lot - rereading LFB has really reminded me what an amazing PoV character he is, so now I don't know what to expect from Runes.

Post by **hierachy** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 1:27 pm

Oh my god! Lord Foul and Covenant are working together!

Post by **Krilly** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 6:54 pm

Either way, simply being able to read more about the Land is awesome in its own right.

Post by **CovenantJr** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 7:04 pm

Indeed it is. *drool* Runes...... But it's all the way upstairs, on my bed

Post by **Cate** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 9:00 pm

Probably the only thing I will be griping about will be waiting for the next book to come out....

I am touching my white gold right now and close my eyes and imagine the argent blaze all around me........

Post by **Krilly** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 2:16 am

As long as you don't bring Time down around our ears, that's cool.

Post by **caamora** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 11:19 pm

Anything written by SRD will be wonderful!

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A Warning about the Third Chronicles!