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Ard Rhys
The News that Set SRD Fandom on FIRE! (the Last Chronicles)
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This is a very interesting thought, maybe TC and LA become Creater and Lord Foul.. hmmmArd Rhys wrote:I'm sure it will be something that only Steve Donaldson can bring us. I don't know what I think as far as what the final outcome will bring. The story may end with Covenant and Linden back at the very very beginning of the Land's creation, when all was darkness and a genesis occurs... with Lord Four defeated. That might be a great end in my opinion.
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Thomas Covenant = The Creator?
Right in the beginning of Lord Foul's Bane we find a clue:
TC - "Come on, old man, We didn't make the world. All we have to do is live in it. We're all in the same boat - one way or another."
Beggar/Creator - "Did we not?"
We!
TC - "Come on, old man, We didn't make the world. All we have to do is live in it. We're all in the same boat - one way or another."
Beggar/Creator - "Did we not?"
We!
Something there is in beauty.
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Great point. I've always wondered about that, myself. Like the rest of the chronicles, I take it as a bit of an internal metaphor. We create our worlds just by shaping it with our perceptions and our preconceived notions. It works especially well if you take a bit of a solipsist slant to life. Not surprisingly, I've always believed the internal/hallucination outlook to be more important.
"It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.”
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From the man himself, Love. Read this thread from the beginning all the way thru. All the info is there 
The first book The Runes of the Earth will tentatively be released at the end of this year.
The first book The Runes of the Earth will tentatively be released at the end of this year.
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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Tom,
I'm a little disappointed that you're doling out hookers and you didn't even offer your ol' pal Brinn one!
I'm a little disappointed that you're doling out hookers and you didn't even offer your ol' pal Brinn one!
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. John Stuart Mill
Here's just a bit more info on the new Chronicles and may add a tidbit or two to what is known (my daughter works at Simon & Schuster and noticed this):
The final four books in Stephen R. Donaldson's series THE CHRONICLES OF THOMAS COVENANT, beginning with THE RUNES OF EARTH, to Jennifer Hershey at Putnam, for publication beginning in fall 2004, by Howard Morhaim at the Howard Morhaim Literary Agency. UK rights were sold to Malcolm Edwards at Orion UK. The original six books in the series, published between 1977 and 1983, have sold over 6 million copies.
The final four books in Stephen R. Donaldson's series THE CHRONICLES OF THOMAS COVENANT, beginning with THE RUNES OF EARTH, to Jennifer Hershey at Putnam, for publication beginning in fall 2004, by Howard Morhaim at the Howard Morhaim Literary Agency. UK rights were sold to Malcolm Edwards at Orion UK. The original six books in the series, published between 1977 and 1983, have sold over 6 million copies.
10 Books Altogether
Hi All,
I just noticed something. There were 10 years between the First and Second Chronicles, and there are 10 years between the Second and Last Chronicles. Steve is writing four books this time rather than the normal three. His total, if he writes four books, is 10 books altogether.
Could this be something weird like the Dark Tower Saga, where King has put in the number 19 all over? Just curiouser and curiouser....
Ard Rhys
I just noticed something. There were 10 years between the First and Second Chronicles, and there are 10 years between the Second and Last Chronicles. Steve is writing four books this time rather than the normal three. His total, if he writes four books, is 10 books altogether.
Could this be something weird like the Dark Tower Saga, where King has put in the number 19 all over? Just curiouser and curiouser....
Ard Rhys
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Hello, Ard Rhys. I see you decided to join us at last.
You realize, don't you, that if you count EPIC FANTASY, this will be his 22nd book. 22 is a baleful but powerful building force in numerology. A good omen for the start of a difficult but powerful series.
You realize, don't you, that if you count EPIC FANTASY, this will be his 22nd book. 22 is a baleful but powerful building force in numerology. A good omen for the start of a difficult but powerful series.
"The universe is made of stories, not atoms." -- Roger Penrose
Whatever the significance of the numbers, I am just so awesomely thrilled that SRD is blessing us with four books! I'm sure we all expected that a 3rd Chronicles, if it was ever written, would be a trilogy; and we would have been deliriously happy with that. But FOUR books! What more can we ask of the man?