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variol son
- The Gap Into Spam
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Earthfriend
- wraith
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- Location: The Hills of Andelain
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Black Asgard
- Woodhelvennin
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Hello, folk.
I joined a while ago, but I've only been around here and there. I made a post with some ideas about the TCTC movie, and I've read a few other threads, but otherwise, I've been pretty silent.
I just noticed this thread, to be frank.
I work overnight as a security guard in a senior independence home, I'm using that money to pay part of my way through college, and I'm a fledging writer myself.
I published one fantasy novel last January. The link is in my signature, because I'm vain like that. And also the 65 cents I get per book helps pay for my education that little bit.
Anyway, I've read the first chronicles 3 times now, after my father gave them to me and stepped out of my life several years back. I'm just reading the second chronicles now, and until just recently, I didn't even know there was a Last Chronicles. I think at one point I'd seen 'Runes' in a book shop, but never put two and two together.
My goal is to read the entire Covenant [available] line before the end of the month. I started just after school let out in late May, and I'm already 1/3rd of the way through the One Tree.
I've seen a lot of frustration about Linden Avery, and while I didn't mind her at first, I don't like her as a narrator. I prefer Covenant's bitter, pent up frustration to her self-loathing, 'pity me' line of bull.
Maybe that'll change. Or maybe Foul will just roast her where she stands with the sick earthpower. But I know that can't happen; discovering Runes and Fatal Revenant meant discovering she still exists in a big way. Alas.
Hello, folk.
I joined a while ago, but I've only been around here and there. I made a post with some ideas about the TCTC movie, and I've read a few other threads, but otherwise, I've been pretty silent.
I just noticed this thread, to be frank.
I work overnight as a security guard in a senior independence home, I'm using that money to pay part of my way through college, and I'm a fledging writer myself.
I published one fantasy novel last January. The link is in my signature, because I'm vain like that. And also the 65 cents I get per book helps pay for my education that little bit.
Anyway, I've read the first chronicles 3 times now, after my father gave them to me and stepped out of my life several years back. I'm just reading the second chronicles now, and until just recently, I didn't even know there was a Last Chronicles. I think at one point I'd seen 'Runes' in a book shop, but never put two and two together.
My goal is to read the entire Covenant [available] line before the end of the month. I started just after school let out in late May, and I'm already 1/3rd of the way through the One Tree.
I've seen a lot of frustration about Linden Avery, and while I didn't mind her at first, I don't like her as a narrator. I prefer Covenant's bitter, pent up frustration to her self-loathing, 'pity me' line of bull.
Maybe that'll change. Or maybe Foul will just roast her where she stands with the sick earthpower. But I know that can't happen; discovering Runes and Fatal Revenant meant discovering she still exists in a big way. Alas.
Hello, folk.
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variol son
- The Gap Into Spam
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Earthfriend
- wraith
- Posts: 575
- Joined: Tue May 13, 2003 2:32 pm
- Location: The Hills of Andelain
Hail Black Asgard!
Oh, and you're not alone in your dislike of Linden's POV - hell, I used to feel cheated when anyone other than Covenant told the story! Ahhh, those were the days...heh.
Oh, and you're not alone in your dislike of Linden's POV - hell, I used to feel cheated when anyone other than Covenant told the story! Ahhh, those were the days...heh.
Stone and Sea are deep in life,
two unalterable symbols of the world;
permanence at rest, and permanence in motion;
participants in the Power that remains.
two unalterable symbols of the world;
permanence at rest, and permanence in motion;
participants in the Power that remains.
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Furls Fire
- Lord
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- Joined: Mon Aug 04, 2003 10:35 am
- Location: Heaven
Hail and Well Met Bannor2 and Black Asgard! 
And I believe in you
altho you never asked me too
I will remember you
and what life put you thru.
~fly fly little wing, fly where only angels sing~
~this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you~
...for then I could fly away and be at rest. Sweet rest, Mom. We all love and miss you.
altho you never asked me too
I will remember you
and what life put you thru.
~fly fly little wing, fly where only angels sing~
~this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you~
...for then I could fly away and be at rest. Sweet rest, Mom. We all love and miss you.
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Hashi Lebwohl
- The Gap Into Spam
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- Joined: Mon Jul 06, 2009 7:38 pm
Greetings to all. 
Fortunately most of you are already acquainted with Hashi, so descriptions of my scratched and cloudy glasses, unkempt labcoat, and untied shoelaces won't be necessary.
While lurking, I have seen many discussions making comparisons between Mr. Donaldson and other writers. My opinion on this is that comparing authors is like comparing Renaissance painters--who is better, Leonardo or Michaelangelo? They are both masters; nothing more need be said.
I have also seen discussions about the lack of hard scientific principles applied during The Gap Cycle. You didn't let that take away from the enjoyment of the stories, did you? Joy is in the ears that hear...erm...the eyes that read, in this case.
Little curiosities that would be extremely interesting:
theoretically, it would be possible for an Imager to translate things to/from The Land...or from Com-Mine Station.
Linden could have used the Staff of Law to summon the younger version of herself from the past. True, this would collapse the Arch of Time but it would be a riot in the meantime.
I think Lord Foul wants to collapse the Arch of Time not to confront his Enemy but in an effort to kill himself. As the eternal representation of the collective self-hate felt by every living being (we all have it, even if only unconsciously), he is full of nothing but loathing and Despite--even for himself. He cannot stand his own existence because he has no counterbalance--he can never create or enjoy anything beautiful; instead, all he can do is mar that which is beautiful.
Fortunately most of you are already acquainted with Hashi, so descriptions of my scratched and cloudy glasses, unkempt labcoat, and untied shoelaces won't be necessary.While lurking, I have seen many discussions making comparisons between Mr. Donaldson and other writers. My opinion on this is that comparing authors is like comparing Renaissance painters--who is better, Leonardo or Michaelangelo? They are both masters; nothing more need be said.
I have also seen discussions about the lack of hard scientific principles applied during The Gap Cycle. You didn't let that take away from the enjoyment of the stories, did you? Joy is in the ears that hear...erm...the eyes that read, in this case.
Little curiosities that would be extremely interesting:
theoretically, it would be possible for an Imager to translate things to/from The Land...or from Com-Mine Station.
Linden could have used the Staff of Law to summon the younger version of herself from the past. True, this would collapse the Arch of Time but it would be a riot in the meantime.
I think Lord Foul wants to collapse the Arch of Time not to confront his Enemy but in an effort to kill himself. As the eternal representation of the collective self-hate felt by every living being (we all have it, even if only unconsciously), he is full of nothing but loathing and Despite--even for himself. He cannot stand his own existence because he has no counterbalance--he can never create or enjoy anything beautiful; instead, all he can do is mar that which is beautiful.
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Orlion
- The Gap Into Spam
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Welcome to the Watch, Hashi! I don't know where you got your avatar from, but it's exactly as I pictured Hashi to look like!
'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
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variol son
- The Gap Into Spam
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- Joined: Fri Apr 05, 2002 1:07 pm
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Hail Hashi Lebwohl, and welcome to Kevins Watch. 
You do not hear, and so you cannot be redeemed.
In the name of their ancient pride and humiliation, they had made commitments with no possible outcome except bereavement.
He knew only that they had never striven to reject the boundaries of themselves.
In the name of their ancient pride and humiliation, they had made commitments with no possible outcome except bereavement.
He knew only that they had never striven to reject the boundaries of themselves.