Lord Defile wrote:Tell me, please, how that explains the simple fact that, with the exception of TC's Elohim-silence in TOT and a few other scattered incidents, the entire story line is from TC's point of view.
Well, it was just a thought. Not one I am seriously inclined to accept myself.
But....
Linden's POV has been steadily increasing, and was rather too dominant (IMHO) ever since she appeared on the scene in book 4.
RoTE of course was primarily Linden's POV.
Also, it was interesting that once Linden started getting on her feet in the Land, that TC is always finding ways of becoming silent or dead, and that even in TC's silence Linden can enter TC's mind and thoughts.
I'm not saying that Linden is the dreamer and TC is the dream character, but this is fiction, and it is open for interpretation in this way--especially since SRD has not stepped in to clarify his intentions.
OTOH, Linden was not mentioned at all in the first trilogy. And in book 4 and beyond she and TC cohabit the real world together, so that implies if she is dreaming, then the real world and the events and people therein, as described by TC and Linden in all books must therefore also be part of the dream. This would imply Linden has a real life of which we know nothing about, and that TC and Haven Farm and the robed man are all parts of the dream, and that the Land is a dream within a dream. So, this is why I prefer to believe that TC and Linden are to be considered real persons that cohabit the same real world together and that the Land is, well, whatever you want it to be.