Kevin's Watch

Do you think that when you put the titles together it tells part of the story?

Would you care to elaborate?

Perhaps you mean ''The Last Dark'' Etc symbolising the destruction of the Land or similar?

The runes of the Earth: "Fatal revenant shall pass utterly the last dark."

So you see, that's about a prophecy (or arguably, these books themselves, as the Latin letters are the rune-equivalents most commonly used on our Earth) that tells that the "fatal revenant", whoever that is (there are SO many potential choices...), will move past the last dark so that he/she/it is completely past it.

Wow, that actually makes a sort of sense!

Runes of the Earth: Stones telling a story
Fatal Revenant: One who comes back from the dead, or has been gone for a long time.
Shall (Should) Pass Utterly: Disappear for all time
The Last Dark: Last Night

Hmmmm a story...

A long lost story telling stone is found once more, then disappears again, but not before it foretells the end of the Land.

or...

The long dead but reappearing Rolling Stones will disappear once more for all time following a night-time concert at Revelstone.

Nerdanel wrote:The runes of the Earth: "Fatal revenant shall pass utterly the last dark."

So you see, that's about a prophecy (or arguably, these books themselves, as the Latin letters are the rune-equivalents most commonly used on our Earth) that tells that the "fatal revenant", whoever that is (there are SO many potential choices...), will move past the last dark so that he/she/it is completely past it.

Wow, that actually makes a sort of sense!

Yeah, it kinda does. Especially when "pass" is defined as overcoming and "last" is remaining/final.

In LFB, Foul told TC that the Creator intends him {TC} to be his final foe.
TC is the fatal revenant completely overcoming the remaining despite.

Thus concludes:The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant (The Unbeliever's War Against Despite In The Background Of The Land).

Or something like that.

"Fatal Revenant" is awfully ambiguous and could refer to almost anyone significant. (Some suitable plot developments can even wipe out that "almost".) It can even refer to a thing: the recurrence of fate in the form of things like yet another quest for the Staff of Law, etc. or something akin to the Karmic law in which your past actions come back to you to form your fate. I'm expecting multiple meanings ALL be valid explanations for the title.

An interesting candidate for the fatal revenant is Lord Foul. He's certainly fatal to a lot of people and he keeps coming back from the seeming death.

"Lord Foul will die for good." I think that's a good possibility among others.

If you turn the book upside down and read it backwards its says: "Linden Avery buried Paul".