That's Just Like The Chronicles!

Post by **wayfriend** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 3:06 am

Did you ever see something or hear something and say to yourself that it reminds you of Thomas Covenant, or graveling, or a Sandgorgon, or something else in the Chronicles?

Well, now we have a dedicated thread, so that when it happens, you can share it. All entries welcome, big or small.

Post by **wayfriend** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 3:14 am

I'll kick it off.

Last night my daughters were watching the Christmas classic Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. And I thought to myself: Self, this story is just like the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant!

You've got your pariah character (Rudolph), disfigured by a physical handicap (red nose), outcast by society. He ends up travelling to a strange land (of Misfit Toys), where the residents associate him with a mythical hero (Santa) and expect him to be a savior. Then he undergoes a journey of personal growth, in which he learns to use his powers (red nose), confronts archetypal evil (Abominable Snow Monster), and saves the people (Misfit Toys). With Yukon Cornelius as Saltheart Foamfollower. :0)

Post by **drew** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 6:24 am

When The Fellowship of the Ring movie came out, I thought that The Mines of Moria looked more like the Cattacombes under Mount Thunder...does that count?

Post by **Sorus** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 6:44 am

Well, it's not Just Like The Chronicles, but I'm trying to find the stairs they used as Kevin's Watch on Fantasy Bedtime Hour.

Not for any particular reason, I just have this feeling that I should know where it is.

Post by **Sunbaneglasses** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 6:57 am

The Wizard of OZ.Bump on head,finds self in strange land,hearalded as a hero for an accidental deed/circumstance.

Post by **Spring** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 8:39 am

These forums.

Post by **Dawngreeter** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 10:20 pm

My wife does it to me all the time, "don't touch me."

Post by **Matthias** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 2:07 am

reading the story about "Doubting Thomas" in the bible. He didn't believe that Christ had really ressurrected...

Post by **danlo** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 2:12 am

Well, it was more of a feeling than anything, but when Dan Millman and his female mentor arrive at the active remnants of one of Father Damien's leper colonies in the Hawiian islands in The Secret Journey of the Peaceful Warrior. (that and listening to Voodoo by Godsmack)

Wed Dec 14, 2005 6:20 pm

Wayfriend wrote:I'll kick it off.

Last night my daughters were watching the Christmas classic Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. And I thought to myself: Self, this story is just like the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant!

You've got your pariah character (Rudolph), disfigured by a physical handicap (red nose), outcast by society. He ends up travelling to a strange land (of Misfit Toys), where the residents associate him with a mythical hero (Santa) and expect him to be a savior. Then he undergoes a journey of personal growth, in which he learns to use his powers (red nose), confronts archetypal evil (Abominable Snow Monster), and saves the people (Misfit Toys). With Yukon Cornelius as Saltheart Foamfollower. :0)

LOL I was thinking the same thing----Ok not really but that is hilarious

Post by **Caer Bombadil** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 6:24 pm

I just spotted this news story today:

Uncle Joe Stalin's Plan to breed an army of hustin for the Soviet Union

A severe and involuntary miscenegation? He who made them is a wreaker of great ill?

Now, if they'd been half hog instead of ape...

Post by **Charles Timewaster** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 6:34 pm

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Post by **Prebe** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 8:28 pm

Cool CT! Is that the name of the mall?

Post by **Marv** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 8:32 pm

i met a leper who 'claimed' that he had been drawn into a magical realm where he had the power to destroy the tyranical maniac who was plagueing the people of said land but couldn't or he'd destroy it. i think he was crazy but i did think to myself that sounds just like thomas coven....hang on!!!

Post by **High Lord Tolkien** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 9:55 pm

Dawngreeter wrote:My wife does it to me all the time, "don't touch me."

I think I married your wife's sister!
At least my wife doesn't say "outcast unclean!" too.

Post by **Cmdr_Floyd** » Mon Dec 26, 2005 7:46 pm

drew wrote:When The Fellowship of the Ring movie came out, I thought that The Mines of Moria looked more like the Cattacombes under Mount Thunder...does that count?

as Tolkien wrote LOTR long before TCTC I think one could say the opposite !

Post by **drew** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 2:21 pm

Cmdr_Floyd wrote:
drew wrote:When The Fellowship of the Ring movie came out, I thought that The Mines of Moria looked more like the Cattacombes under Mount Thunder...does that count?

as Tolkien wrote LOTR long before TCTC I think one could say the opposite !

I've read both books. But the scene in the movie, to me anyways, looked more like what I pictured the Catacombes under Mount Thunder to look like, rather than the Mines of Moria.

Post by **Prebe** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 2:38 pm

Where's the river in your immagination Drew? I always pictured the entrance to Mount Thunder as a narow ledge with a plummety drop to the left and a vertical cliff rising on your right hand side.

But perhaps it's just me?

Post by **drew** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 2:46 pm

The Inside..the INSIDE..oh never mind!!