Kevin's Watch

kayseryn wrote:Didn't realise the dissecting thing was still active..

Oh course it is! That's like saying I'm not active, last time I checked I was...thanks alot! (Join us, check the schedules--it's always active you can reply whenever you wish...TOT starts in 2 days!)

Lord Revan you found that funny? You are the odd bird aren't you...**shakes (active) head**

Well, Foamfollower said a very sad thing in a funny way. Agreed?

Foamfollower was one of the best characters. I almost lost interest in the books, when I thought that he had died in Hotash Slay. I was really depressed, until he came back into it! The giants were those characters that stay in your mind forever. They were really special.

I don't know what kind of, if any, conversation this will begin, but I'm overwhelmed with love for the Giants right now. Foamfollower will always be my favorite, but I've not "met" one Giant that I haven't loved

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(even the deranged Longwrath - I pity him rather than dislike or fear him).

I think that they are, by far, SRD's greatest creations.

Their physical stature is not their most striking feature for me. Instead, it is the spirit of their race and the strength of their character that attracts me to them. They place friendship, fealty, and honesty above all other virtues. They are corageous and kind. They value stories and understand the importance of their tales to their essence. They do not discriminate based on gender, race, appearance, or ability. Each Giant is valued for his or her own strengths and character. They are adventurous. They love their Home. They understand sacrifice and accept it willingly. Though often ruled by utilitarian mores, their compassion and value for the individual tempers the often extreme measures they take for the greater good.
They truly are Giants in every sense of the word.

Their laughter makes me smile.

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I love this thread! Where in bloody hell was it last night when I posted my "Giant Appreciation" blurb!?

It was back on page 13.

Fist and Faith wrote:It was back on page 13.

Well thanks for bumping it up!

Perhaps I'll have to add a few of my own fave giant quotations...once I have enough energy to walk the 3ft to my bookshelves...

loved the Giants to bits, especially Foamfollower....

only thing that irked me about the Unhomed was the way they just gave up hope
& let themselves be killed...

Very moving piece when Foamfollower described how he ran through Coercri trying to rouse the Giants to resist Kinslaughterer...

Seeker of Truth wrote: only thing that irked me about the Unhomed was the way they just gave up hope
& let themselves be killed...

But isn't that the horrible nature of despair? These wonderful wonderful beings are so changed by what has happened that they completely lose their sense of self; they became the antithesis of what we know the Giants to be.

Pharinet said it all, and welcome to Kevin's Watch, by the way. I, too, love the Giants best of all, and the First of the Search and Pitchwife are my favorites. She was the inspiration for my avatar, as a female Giant would be a Rocksister. One of her quotes is my signature line, too, and that scene is a favorite of mine. Her strength and tenderness, combined in one hugely strong, stern form, just personified all that was right and good in the Chronicles. I speculate that their descendants will show up in 2010 or 2013. I will be overjoyed beyond bounds..........

Rocksister wrote:Her strength and tenderness, combined in one hugely strong, stern form, just personified all that was right and good in the Chronicles.

Well said.

Things are always better when Giants are in the story.

I wonder what would happen if SRD inttroduced (gulp) evil Giants?

Brasidas wrote:I wonder what would happen if SRD inttroduced (gulp) evil Giants?

You mean other than

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Longwrath

and the three Giant-Ravers?

If Stephen R Donaldson would allow expansion or maybe even do a short story (preferably a Novel or two) of just the Giants Homeland..the departing Unholmed all the way up to the Search.

I doubt SRD would do this himself..but if some other Talented Giant loving understanding person could do it.....I would definately buy it...no matter-good bad or ugly reviews.

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LONGWRATH???!?!?! and EVIL GIANT!!!???

now thats a spoiler Ouch..now im going to have to read FR...yet i will restrain myself with Giantish Patience...damn.... I need a Caamora now.

From the responses in the GI, it's highly unlikely that he'd do it, and there's no way he'd allow anyone else to do so commercially.

Blackhawk wrote:If Stephen R Donaldson would allow expansion or maybe even do a short story (preferably a Novel or two) of just the Giants Homeland..the departing Unholmed all the way up to the Search.

I doubt SRD would do this himself..but if some other Talented Giant loving understanding person could do it.....I would definately buy it...no matter-good bad or ugly reviews.

I don't see it actually happening, but yeah, I'd read it, too. I'd also read about the Hurachai as well. I was hoping that perhaps in the final two books, SRD would take us to see either's homeland, but after having read FR, I think that's extremely unlikely.

BTW, I love your artwork, Blackhawk!

An entire series could be written on the Giants alone. Wow, I'd be lined up for that, no doubt. It's too bad he doesn't plan to do it; no one else could do it right, and I'm not dissing anyone else's literary talent. SRD has in his mind what his intentions truly were. I think we'd all see gaps and contradictions in someone else's take on the Giants. But yea, a story from their Homeland to their journeys to the Land, their being stranded here, the voyages to find Home, paralleled with the stories of what's going on at Home while they are being looked for. Awesome idea. Can we beg him to do it?? Giants are my favorite book characters, out of every book I have ever read for my whole 51 years. I know, I don't look that old in my picture, do I?

rdhopeca wrote:

Brasidas wrote:I wonder what would happen if SRD inttroduced (gulp) evil Giants?

You mean other than Longwrath and the three Giant-Ravers?

Well the Giant-Ravers, to me, were not evil Giants per se - they were taken over by external evil, and I think the jury is still out on Longwrath. I'm talking about an evil being who is recognisably and consciously what we have come to expect a Giant to be.

Sorry for being a spoilsport but I guess FR references should still be spoilered in this part of the Watch, there are still fellow Watchers out there who have not read the final chronicles.