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Awesome quotes to inform "unbelievers" about TC!
Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 10:21 pm
by Krilly
Okay first of all, this isn't a "do my homework" topic. No worries.
I'm giving an informative speech in a week and I decided to inform my audience about Mr. Donaldson's great work here, TCoTC.
What I'm wondering... what are some of your favorite most memorable parts/quotes in the first trilogy (optimaly LFB) that you love and think would spark interest in someone, even if they don't like fantasy.
Basically I want to inform my audience that this series is not your cookie-cutter sort of fantasy genre book! This is a very minor speech, pretty casual and short... so if anyone has any quotes off the top of their heads, that would be great. I don't want anyone (including myself) to hunch over the books, searching for anything.
Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 10:34 pm
by Relayer
Depends on what kind of audience you have, but how about the "Fundamental Question of Ethics"? Or maybe a short version of it.
Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 10:36 pm
by CovenantJr
Good point. The Fundamental Question of Ethics is essentially the premise of the First Chronicles, though the reader doesn't know that at the time.
Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 10:39 pm
by Krilly
My audience is a mixed array of 20-25 year olds. College kids.
Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 10:52 pm
by CovenantJr
Oh. Right.
Mention beer.
Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 11:10 pm
by A Gunslinger
The FQoE is good. I would also point out Covenants musings on innocence and power.
Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 11:25 pm
by balon!
CovenantJr said:
Oh. Right.
Mention beer.
Or
diamondraught? A nice mindblowing of is this world
the real world, or are there other worlds parralle? String Theroy? I do like the Fundamental Question of Ethics though.
Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 11:56 pm
by Kil Tyme
Telling of my favorite parts or quotes would be giving too much away to those who are the "Unbeliever Uninitiated". I'm glad I didn't know anything of the books, or the story rather, until I saw them for sale long ago and read the back cover. But to get these 20 somethings interested, just read the origional book reviewers quotes that are inside the book.
Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 12:01 am
by Fist and Faith
"And the glory of the world becomes less than it was."
Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 2:24 pm
by Relayer
CovenantJr wrote:Oh. Right.
Mention beer.
There you go! Tell them about the beginning of TIW when he goes to the club...
Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 3:49 pm
by dlbpharmd
"There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything - give him back something broken."
Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 3:56 pm
by iQuestor
that sounds familiar ...
Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 3:57 pm
by High Lord Tolkien
I'd leave out the word "leprosy".
"The Oath of Peace" is pretty cool all by itself.
Good luck explaining how awesome Earthpower is in a few sentences.
I tried explaining on two different occasion to two people trying to get them into the books and failed miserably.
Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 4:40 pm
by Waddley
"There is also love in the world."
I know it's not till the second set, but it's my persoan favorite. I'm thinking about a tattoo...
Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 7:24 pm
by Fist and Faith
My last post was from LFB, since, as you said, that's the one they'll read first. But maybe the best quote of all TCTC:
"You turn from us to save life in your own world. We will not be undone by such motives."
Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 8:27 pm
by Krilly
dlbpharmd wrote:"There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything - give him back something broken."
Ooo yeah, that's a good one. I was thinking about possible parts where something is described quite beautifully. Possibly Andelain, or Revelstone?
Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 9:34 pm
by Fist and Faith
The moment when the Giants of the Search first see Revelstone is one of the most powerful moments for me. Of course, your students won't get nearly the full impact, since they don't know the story of the Unhomed. Still...
"Can you read it? Do you know what it means? I've been here three times" - four counting the brief translation during which he had refused Mhoram's summons - "but no one's ever been able to tell me what it means."
Swallowing heavily, Pitchwife murmered, "No words. There are none. Your scant human tongue is void-" Tears spread through the creases of his face, mapping his emotion.
But the First said for him, "All tongues, Giantfriend. All tongues lack such language. There is that in the granite glory of the world's heart which may not be uttered with words. All other expression must be dumb when the pure stone speaks. And here that speech has been made manifest. Ah, my heart!" Her voice rose as if she wanted to both sing and keen. But for her also no words were adequate. Softly, she concluded, "The Giants of the Land were taught much by their loss of Home. I am humbled before them."
This is when the
Haruchai army first saw Revelstone, in GILDEN-FIRE:
Revelstone itself met the eyes of the invaders with a wonder such as they had never known. They understood mountains, cliffs, indomitable stone, and never in their warmest dreams had they conceived that gutrock could be so made welcoming, habitable, and extravagant. The great Giant-wrought Keep astonished them, inspired them with a fierce joy unmatched by anything except the sight of austere peaks majestically facing heavenward and the enfolding love of wives. And the more they looked, the more ecstatic Revelstone appeared. Half intuitively, they sensed the pattern, the commingling flow and rest of the balconies and coigns and windows and parapets, which the Giants had woven into the rock of the high walls - perceived it dimly, and were enthralled. Here, amid warmth and lushness and fertility and food and sunlight, was a single rock home capacious enough to enclose the entire Haruchai people and hold them free of want forever. The suggestiveness of such luxurience made the very crenellations of the battlements seem luminous, strangely lit by high mysteries and unquenchable possibilities.
Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 4:51 pm
by aliantha
Good choices, Fist!
In the same vein as "Mention beer": mention that the Haruchai haven't had sex for 500 years. *That* oughta get a discussion going....
Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 12:48 am
by Mr. Milton Milquetoast
Now he strode past the courthouse, it's old gray columns looking proud of their burden of justice and law---the building in which, by proxy, of course, he had been reft of his family. Even it's front steps were polished to guard against the stain of human need which prowled up and down them, seeking restitution.
This is among the best of the written word.
Mr. Milquetoast
Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 3:35 am
by Ur Dead
Saved and dammed.