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Post by Strider »

Hello Believers:

This is my seventh reading of Thomas Covenant.

I just started The Wounded Land again. The most tortured of them all.

My pace has been every two or three years.

The LOTR movie triggered this one. After I read LOTR for the fourth time.

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Hail and welcome Strider .. fellow 'believer' :wink: :wink:

be welcomed in this place .. welcome and true!!
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Welcome!!

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Welcome Strider! You couldn't have picked better reading materials. The Lords of Kevin's Watch look 4ward 2 stimulating contributions. For we sense you are not closed 2 us! :P
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It's great to meet a Ranger! You really do get around! Looking forward to your posts. :)
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Welcome to the Watch, Strider :)
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Post by amanibhavam »

speaking of rereading, I am into LFB for the sixth or seventh time now:-) It is amazing, how much it grips me, even though I know every word of it now... When I read the battle scene at Soaring Woodhelven, I had a desire to slap Covenant in the face for his behaviour.
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Post by kevinswatch »

Hey there, Strider. Heh, TWL sure is a great read if you're looking for a depressing good time.-jay
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The more the merrier...although it's not like I schlepp on down more than once a month :oops: :lol: I try, I try! Put in a post for me!
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Post by Brinn of the Haruchai »

Welcome, I have been here for awhile, just in a different guise--Well met Strider(he said impassively, his mein showing no emotion)
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intriguing .. Brinn of the Haruchai .. so in what guise were you in before??

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Post by Brinn of the Haruchai »

I was BannorsIllegitimateSon, I ddint post much, but visited a lot. I have a new found fervor for the chronicles this summer after reading them for the 4th time. I am SO happy to have found this site, because I do not know anyone who has read these books.
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BannorsIllegitimateSon?!! Before or after the Vow? (O Earthpower,
make me chaste, but not yet?--with apologies to St. Augustine!)

Seriously, I've always thought Haruchai wives got a seriously
raw deal...in the First and Second Chronicles...and poor Mrs. Cail
could hardly compete with the entire sisterhood of merewives.

I can't decide whether there ever would have been a Lysistrata-
type story in the Westron Mountains (like the Greek play
where the women went on a sex strike until the men stopped
having wars), or whether it would have
resulted in the extinction of the nation--Haruchai men and women
being orders of magnitude more stubborn than ancient Greeks.
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The dead roam the Earth by night 8O

Nice revival of an eight month old topic, my friend ;) Please continue ;)
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Post by Durris »

I'm not a newbie to cyberspace in general, but I'm not yet acculturated to the Watch (my accent is as thick as any other Haruchai newly arrived in the Land...)

Is reviving an old topic 'not done'? What is the usual
statute of limitations on this board?
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Post by aTOMiC »

Durris, please bump all of the old topics that you find interesting. There have been some truly excellent conversations here and they do get buried by the newer posts. Happy digging! :D
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Post by variol son »

Bump away good Durris, bump away. :D You could always start a new topic about Haruchai women.

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Post by Durris »

Thanks! My main problem right now is the temptation to watch the Watch when I need to be doing my freelance editing work... 8O
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Tsk tsk. Hey, who am I to talk. I should be spending time with sex offenders and mental health patients. :?

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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.
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addictive ol' Watch, isn't it? :wink:
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Post by hierachy »

I'd like to point out that this is 20 months old, not 8.
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