Kevin's Watch

TPTP: "Lord Mhoram's Victory" 'nuf said.

Not remotely your fault, Jem. I was giggling myself silly because of Murrin's av just before I saw your post. Somehow, I expected everyone to know what was on my mind when I posted. My almost-ex-wife would likely tell you I do that kind of thing a lot.

Yay, my book is winning. Heh. So I'm not completely crazy for saying it's my favorite. Or am I...? Heh.

For some reason I remember really liking the begining to TPTP. I think it began with Covenant back in his home world, going completely insane. Then you throw in the whole thing with the girl... Wow, great stuff. I need to read just the begining of that book again. Heh.

-jay

a-Jeroth wrote:TPTP: "Lord Mhoram's Victory" 'nuf said.

That's a very good answer, and I gave serious thought to choosing TPTP for exactly that reason. (Plus Foamfollower as the Pure One.)

But in the end I went for TIW, because that's where SRD's narrative style really hit full stride, I think, and that book shows us more of the Land in its natural state than any of the other books. Revelstone, Revelwood, Trothgard, the Center and South Plains, Garroting Deep, Seareach, the Sarangrave . . . I was dazzled when I first read it.

Variol, those are both great, another two reasons why it's my favorite. It had a sense of history, the repeating of the battle of the forces of the Lords against the forces of Corruption, and the geography is detailed, the ruined city and Garroting Deep... but SRD's Style really hit full swing there, and it resembled TPTP much more closely than it did LFB

*bump*

Has to be the Illearth War. I have to say Gilden Fire was good but as it was really only a few chapters it cant compare.

I have made a list of my order of preference.

1. The Power that Preservers
2. White Gold Wielder
3. The Wounded Land
4. The Illearth War
5. Lord Foul's Bane
6. The One Tree

The Runes of the Earth is too new to have found its place on the list, but it would be neither at the top or the bottom. Gilden Fire is not a true book and doesn't count.

The Power that Preserves is the uncontested winner for me. It has the emotional force and the successful pacing that no other book in the series quite reaches. "Lord Mhoram's Victory" is just one of the highlights.

The Power That Preserves, mainly due to Lord Mhoram's Victory. It is a moving passage. I am also in agreement with Furl's about The Wounded Land and Chapter 26.

I love all the books, each has been a favorite at one time or another. But I voted for Runes of The Earth. It was the best written, lots of new and very cool characters, a fresh story. Dying for the next book!!! Please hurry Mr. Donaldson....

There are parts of all the other books that I like more than any in LFB, but as a whole book... it will always be LFB. The background, the basic premise, the essence... it's all in that single book. And as a single book, the story stands better than any of the others, imo (though The One Tree is a close second).

Cail wrote:Like Jay, I've always said TPTP. I think it does such a masterful job of taking away everything we love about the Land (Bloodguard, Hurtloam, the Sun), and then redeeming everything in the end. A real surprise twist for an ending, and a hell of a ride getting there.

TWL is a close second.

LFB is my least favorite by far.

I totally agree with all of that.

has to be TPTP - Mhoram finally achieves his potential and both Covenant, Bannor & Foamfollower achieve redemption (of a sort)...

Lord Foul's Bane...even though it was the first of 3 books(at the time) it seemed to leave things completed in the end, even though everybody knew that Foul was getting his armies ready...

it was between that one and Illearth war, but lfb edges out Illearth War cuz that one was pretty sad...

The original 3 books of thee First chronicles are easily the best. Power That Preserves just clinches it, because it brings that trilogy (as it was) to climax and a conclusion, but Lord Foul's Bane and the Illearth War are very close behind.