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Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2014 4:27 pm
by dlbpharmd
I would say the best cover was the original cover for ROTE, by Whelan. I greatly prefer his work over Palencar's.
Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2014 5:29 pm
by Vraith
lurch wrote:Best Cover Art of the LC...TLD...once one realizes whats going on
The funny thing about that is the thread arguing about who/what was on the cover...and Orlion nailed it EXACTLY saying:
O wrote: My vote is that the person is Mahrtiir, and that he is going to become a Forestal.
Great call, O.
Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2014 6:04 pm
by lurch
Yes Vraith, this is true..but I go a bit further...Thomas and Linden were happily consummating their marriage at the approx time of ur-mahrtiir with his song of willow and gleeming leafs etc. The kicker is the gold medallion also on the front cover art. Its verbiage is in agreement with what is going on with the cover art. I can't help to think,,that by design, SRD got one over on the publisher. Perhaps it explains the lifeless descriptive of their consummation; " when they were done.."..Apparently the author and art designer were not quite done with the issue.
Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2014 6:43 pm
by Vraith
lurch wrote:Yes Vraith, this is true..but I go a bit further...
Yea, I know...I was just amazed at that O nailed the thing in advance, so was giving a shout out for folk to notice despite being a digression.
Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2014 12:51 am
by lurch
I can't emphasize it enough..the Scale of ... is one of the best elements or motifs in TLD. The author likes really big stages in his tales and in the opening of TLD he immediately goes off the scale with Lindens exaltation..Pegs the meter in " feeling"..not Time and Space but in " feeling"..He uses " scale" to demonstrate new choices, new realities, and " scale " is in the .." the abyss and the peak" title of part 2.,,and a proportion is subtlety implied in " to bear what must be borne". Time and Space are only the beginning points of scale. Feelings, graveyard to whole, blasts of earthpower to no more killing, from Hopeless to Boon of Hope..from I didn't want you to die to,,I'm glad you did..There are many more " from to's" thru out TLD and the LCs ,,proportions of distance and time in perspectives never quite considered before. Think of Dali's painting and most other early Surreal paintings,,perspective lines are ubiquitous. New Scales, New perspectives. TLD perspective lines go to infinity.