You should make it your signature, like Lucimay!High Lord Tolkien wrote:I will give Malik credit for the following quote regarding that chapter for the rest of my life.
It is awesome.
Sometimes if I just think of it I start laughing.
"The only thing missing was Foul showing up with a giant sledgehammer!"
If I can get everyone to use my quotes as signatures, my purpose here will be complete. 
Thinking back on my comment, I couldn't remember why I said, "sledgehammer," then I went back, read it, and think I was trying to set up the next sentence about Sandgorgons . . .
[/quote]I wrote:I'm probably the only person here who did not cheer when this happened. The battle of the First Woodhelven was the most piled-on collection of Donaldsonian archetypes as I've ever seen. Just before the sandgorgons showed up, I was thinking: my god, what next? Foul himself striding into battle with a giant sledgehammer? And then we have the Land's equivalent of a sledgehammer: sandgorgons out of nowhere. People complain about the Insequent being a deus ex machina, but dear lord, what about a race of super-fighters who magically appear out of nowhere whenever you call their name? (Or the ranyhyn, for that matter? How many characters can you possibly have who save the day when you call their name or whistle?!?) I thought that battle was the single most gratuitous moment in all of the Chronicles.Fist and Faith wrote: I cheered loudest when Linden said, "Nom! We need you!"
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I'm thinking about making my signature: "It's so damn gratuitous." -- Roger Covenant. But then I'd have to spoiler tag it.
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