Damn, I forgot that...definitely does in my first speculation [I didn't believe it anyway, but now it's not even a fun "what if."]High Lord Tolkien wrote:Brinn couldn't have done that.Vraith wrote:
AND...that made me realize::: Brinn DEFINITELY knew exactly who/what he was fighting and how it would do battle, if not the whole time at least he did as soon as he saw the Guardian. The Har. do not forget. . To me, that changes the tone/implications of the Haruchai story up to that point [at least it might... on my next read through it'll be in my mind.
I don't think anyone else has followed that thought before...apologies if I'm accidentally plagiarizing someone.[/color]
When the Theomach became the Guardian the "transcended" (i think that was the term) his name. So he couldn't be invoked anymore.
"the Theomach passed beyond self and craving to join the rare company of those who do not heed death. And therefore the Vizard did not scruple to reveal the Theomach's true name, for he could not longer be harmed by it."
I'm not sure it ruins the second though...Brinn has knowledge of what he'll face in a much more literal/"personal" way than I'd been thinking of it before...
Still, not as much fun, now, with that reminder.
/sigh.