My favourite, IIRC, isLord Mhoram's eyes.
"Mhorams eyes crackled with a sudden visionary fire."
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My favourite, IIRC, isLord Mhoram's eyes.
That has always staggered me. That moment when, on the threshold of completing his plan, Covenant is thwarted by Cavewights - Cavewights! A smaller danger than most he has survived; but he has no way to fight, and no-one to help him - so he turns to Foul for salvation.He could not go to her. He hardly knew where he might find enough strength to stand. And the Cavewights would not let him move. He had no way to combat them except with his ring - the wild magic he could not use. He and she were prisoners completely. And there was no name that either of them might call upon for rescue.
No name except the Despiser's.
Covenant hoped like madness that Lord Foul would act quickly.
I'll second "Nom" - that has to be the most exciting and dramatic sentence anyone's ever written with just 3 letters !dlbpharmd wrote:"Nom"
WGW - The third summoning of Nom, how the trail of dust he leaves behind can be seen from such a great distance.“Slowly, it appeared to understand that it had finally met a man able to destroy it. It stopped fighting. Its arms sank to its sides. Long quiverings ran through its muscles like anticipation of death…A moment later, the beast surprised him by sinking to the floor. Its quiverings grew stronger, then began to subside: Deliberately, the Sandgorgon touched its forehead to the stone near Covenant’s feet like an offer of service.”
WGW – Nom shattering the inner gates of Revelstone“…he saw a plume of dust rising through the haze. He did not doubt what it was. Nothing but a Sandgorgon could travel with enough swift strength to raise that much dust.”
In TIW when Hile Troy confronts Covenant in the corridors of Revelstone after the singing of Lord Kevin's Lament trying to persuade him to fight for the LandHe felt he came from a very poor world where no one knew or cared about healing stoneware pots. He tried to tell himself that he was dreaming, but he did not want to listen