Haruchai questions

Post by **wayfriend** » Tue Dec 15, 2009 4:24 pm

I enjoy pronouncing Covenant as "throat-warbler-mangrove".

Post by **peter** » Wed Dec 16, 2009 12:18 pm

wayfriend wrote:I enjoy pronouncing Covenant as "throat-warbler-mangrove".

How weird is that - thats exactly how I pronounce it too! ( but do you say throat in the conventional way, or as 'throw-at' as do I, or does it come out as 'double decker bus' as I have heard that some people lean toward)

Post by **Thorhammerhand** » Wed Dec 16, 2009 1:58 pm

For me, when I pronounce it that way all my friends hear haulage-lorry-with-no-breaks

Post by **peter** » Wed Dec 16, 2009 7:11 pm

Thorhammerhand wrote:For me, when I pronounce it that way all my friends hear haulage-lorry-with-no-breaks

You need help with that Thor.

Post by **peter** » Wed Dec 16, 2009 7:12 pm

I can recommend a good mechanic.

Post by **Fist and Faith** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 12:16 pm

Here's a Haruchai girl:

This is her elementary school. (Obviously, it's not high school, where things were extreme and dangerous. They're only little kids, after all.)

Post by **hpty603** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 5:50 am

Their highschools are quite different. Wanting to expose them to all the different extremes of life, they base them off of this model:

And were you their teacher of life Fist and Faith?

Post by **Thorhammerhand** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 7:17 am

University Locations?

I see Life Swallower as the prime choice for Uni

Post by **wayfriend** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 2:27 pm

Thorhammerhand wrote:I see Life Swallower as the prime choice for Uni

That would have been an apt name for the one I attended ...

Post by **Kil Tyme** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 3:09 pm

Having come from the cold north mountains, I always see them as a 5.5 foot broadly built stoic nordic viking-monk type of folk.

Post by **peter** » Tue Dec 22, 2009 4:57 pm

[quote="Fist and Faith"]Here's a Haruchai girl:quote] Now there's an interesting idea - the introduction of female haruchai into the story!

Post by **transient** » Sun Dec 27, 2009 9:30 am

I have always likened the Haruchai to the great fighting men of Nepal...the Gurkhas. They have given service to the British Army for over two centuries.

a sounds like the "u" in "up"
u sounds like "oo" as in kangaroo
ai sounds like "eye"
ch as in church

hu roo ch eye

A Merry Christmas to all from the great south land (okay so it's already the 27th December but it's been a loooong celebration and vic bitter has wondrous powers to stretch time.

Post by **peter** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 12:28 pm

transient wrote:A merry Christmas to all from the great south land (okay so it's already the 27th December but it's been a loooong celebration and vic bitter has wondrous powers to stretch time.

Same again from the UK. Discovery of the site has been a big thing to me after 30 years of being a lone Donaldson obsessive! Thanks Guys and have a great 2010 all of you. :yourock:

Post by **Thorhammerhand** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 12:47 pm

Like wise, except for me it was a paltry 8 years

Post by **Fist and Faith** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 10:29 pm

I talked about TCTC with another guy about 26 years ago. Some good conversations, but not enough, and I wasn't even 20 yet. Then a member here, Syl, pointed me here 7 years ago. And life was joyous. We all had so many huge discussions about so much 4-7 years ago that I don't often get too into depth now. But the old threads are still back there. heh

Post by **peter** » Wed Dec 30, 2009 10:19 am

[quote="Fist and Faith"]Then a member here, Syl, pointed me here 7 years ago.[Quote]Is that about how old the site is then. Woah - I have missed a lot! Still - maybe when I retire I can spend some time finding the old threads that interest me and ressurect a few of them. Sounds like (almost) heaven to me.

Post by **leonprimrose** » Thu Dec 31, 2009 8:22 am

I've had the same debate with one of my friends about the appearance of a Haruchai. He thought they would look more oriental I thought they would be more African.

Spoiler

But the way I view them now is different. I relate the way a Haruchai looks in general to Esmer and in the second cover of Runes of the Earth I am certain that it is Esmer shown. So I go by that for a general reference to what a Haruchai looks like.

and I pronounce them Hah-roo-chI for Haruchai and Ran-i-hin for Ranyhyn

Post by **peter** » Thu Dec 31, 2009 11:44 am

leonprimrose wrote:
Spoiler
I relate the way a Haruchai looks in general to Esmer and in the second cover of Runes of the Earth I am certain that it is Esmer shown. So I go by that for a general reference to what a Haruchai looks like.

Spoiler

If you mean the one with the guy standing in a green robe with two horses behind him.......No, No, No, No, No! (But each to his own of course

).

Post by **leonprimrose** » Thu Dec 31, 2009 8:17 pm

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lol that's what I thought at first but you look at him and there's no other character it could be other than Esmer. The character's robes match and a big part of Esmer's character is his regard for the Ranyhyn. and Esmer was described to look mostly like his father Cail and the Haruchai

. That's how I came to that conclusion. I definitely always thought that they were African before that though

edit: sorry about that

Post by **Relayer** » Thu Dec 31, 2009 9:10 pm

edit: oops, forgot what forum I was in

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I agree that it's "supposed" to be Esmer, but he looks like an adult Frodo (Elijah Wood).

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Haruchai questions