The IllEarth Stone is green as... envy

[shadowbinding shoe]

After the revelation of She Who Must Not Be Named it occurred to me that the other Banes reputedly hidden under Mount Thunder are related to her.

The only one we are familiar with is the IllEarth Stone. It's stronger than the Staff of Law and nearly as strong as White Magic. In the First Chronicles we're told that Lord Foul made it when the world was created and that it has a malicious nature that turns good things into monstrosities.

But now that we know about SWMNBN a deeper and more convoluted explanation can be made. SWMNBN was once the Eternal Love and she loved... Despite. When Despite, obeying his Foul nature used her and spurned her love for the sake of his evil machinations, she became mad, followed him into the Land and went into an angry, hungry slumber.

But what if after being spurned by Foul, another emotion was birthed in her? What if a deep, green envy consumed her? Foul could be said to be the father and ultimate progenitor of this raw emotion (as SWMNBN can be said to be its mother).

Just as the Ravers were born from the Sarangrave and the Forest Murder, the IllEarth Stone was birthed from SWMNBN mad love and Despite selfish evil.

And the victory of the White Gold White Magic over the IllEarth Stone made thereby deeply symbolic: it shows us that Fidelity can defeat the depredations of envy if the will is strong enough and the heart true.

[Savor Dam]

Particularly the conclusion you reach. Your theory about the Stone and SWMNBN may not be what SRD has in mind (we'll see...), but I really like where you went with it. After all, SRD has repeatedly said he needed the White Gold to be a ring more than Tolkien needed his talisman to be a ring. Your theory fits this contention very well.

[shadowbinding shoe]

Particularly the conclusion you reach. Your theory about the Stone and SWMNBN may not be what SRD has in mind (we'll see...), but I really like where you went with it. After all, SRD has repeatedly said he needed the White Gold to be a ring more than Tolkien needed his talisman to be a ring. Your theory fits this contention very well.

Thanks