Barnetto wrote:Is it too simple to suggest that they weren't actually wrong, since, at the end, Linden did indeed have the ring so the Sun Sage and Ringwielder were one. They just made the faulty assumption that their vision required it would be that way at an earlier point in time?
Yes, but why insert that particularly critical faulty assumption into the story?
I feel it is there to make a statement about the Elohim. Perhaps the statement is that, when it comes to beings from outside of the Earth, they don't understand everything, and can make errors.
Or possibly just another example of SRD's abhorrance of dogma/lack of ambiguity? There are plenty of examples of his dislike of (or at leat the dangers of) absolutism in the Chronicles. The Bloodguard Vow for one.
(Mhoram was a seer, but there was no dogma involved in his prescience and so no danger.)
Barnetto wrote:Is it too simple to suggest that they weren't actually wrong, since, at the end, Linden did indeed have the ring so the Sun Sage and Ringwielder were one. They just made the faulty assumption that their vision required it would be that way at an earlier point in time?
Yes, but why insert that particularly critical faulty assumption into the story?
I feel it is there to make a statement about the Elohim. Perhaps the statement is that, when it comes to beings from outside of the Earth, they don't understand everything, and can make errors.
Or possibly just another example of SRD's abhorrance of dogma/lack of ambiguity? There are plenty of examples of his dislike of (or at leat the dangers of) absolutism in the Chronicles. The Bloodguard Vow for one.
(Mhoram was a seer, but there was no dogma involved in his prescience and so no danger.)
Yea, this "theme" is critical to the entirety of the Chronicles. AFAI recall, every being who glimpses the future turns out right-ish in outline, but wrong [often utterly] in detail and meaning. And this theme has a lot of overlapping implications/territory with "the necessity of freedom." [I'd actually argue that the necessity of freedom is the reason for the failure of visions]
[spoiler]Sig-man, Libtard, Stupid piece of shit. change your text color to brown. Mr. Reliable, bullshit-slinging liarFucker-user.[/spoiler] the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass. "Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
