Speaking of Cover Art...

Sun Jul 28, 2013 2:16 am

Who and what are depicted on this cover for the first trilogy edition?

www.amazon.com/First-Chronicles-Thomas- ... ZRFD2M4VZC

Post by **Orlion** » Sun Jul 28, 2013 3:21 am

That's a good question... all that I've been able to figure is that it is during the Battle of Soaring Woodhelvin. I'm actually leaning towards the human being Thomas Covenant since there is a ring... on the wrong hand... and his face is very scruffy.

Post by **Akasri** » Sun Jul 28, 2013 3:52 am

Are those cavewights?

Post by **Billy G.** » Mon Jul 29, 2013 12:26 am

Griffins?

Mon Jul 29, 2013 1:16 am

Akasri wrote:Are those cavewights?

I think it's Mhoram battling cavewights.

Post by **Wildling** » Mon Jul 29, 2013 1:30 am

TheWormoftheWorld'sEnd wrote:
Akasri wrote:Are those cavewights?
I think it's Mhoram battling cavewights.

This was my thought.

Post by **Akasri** » Mon Jul 29, 2013 9:19 am

To me it looks like a half-handed, ring-wielding Mhoram, battling Cavewights

Post by **wayfriend** » Mon Jul 29, 2013 1:59 pm

Not that art ever actually has to be a scene from the book, but this kind of seems to me like the scene where Covenant has fallen Bilboesquely into a chasm in Mt Thunder during LFB. Because it seems like a cliff and some sort of slope of "shale and loam and refuse" he is standing on. At that time, he has a staff, and he encountered some old, well-dressed cavewights. The picture looks like the staff could be glowing, as it did in the book.

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Mon Jul 29, 2013 2:19 pm

I think the main issue is the character being way too old to be Covenant. He was about 30 in LFB.

Post by **dlbpharmd** » Mon Jul 29, 2013 2:24 pm

wayfriend wrote:Not that art ever actually has to be a scene from the book, but this kind of seems to me like the scene where Covenant has fallen Bilboesquely into a chasm in Mt Thunder during LFB. Because it seems like a cliff and some sort of slope of "shale and loam and refuse" he is standing on. At that time, he has a staff, and he encountered some old, well-dressed cavewights. The picture looks like the staff could be glowing, as it did in the book.

This was the cover for one of the SciFi Book Club omnibus editions, and I have it. I've always thought these were Cavewights (look at the huge shovel-like hands.)

Post by **Krilly** » Wed Jul 31, 2013 7:20 pm

That's the part when Lord Willie Nelson had to subdue the overgrown Gremlins. Riveting scene.

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Post by **Rau Le Creuset** » Wed Jul 31, 2013 10:49 pm

I think its to old for lord mhoram.. maybe its prothal at soaring woodhelvinl.. and I gotta think those are cavewights aswell

- lord willie nelson is a solid idea... but surely he would be fighting using guitar lore not staff lore?

Post by **dlbpharmd** » Thu Aug 01, 2013 3:36 pm

Poliwrath wrote:I think its to old for lord mhoram.. maybe its prothal at soaring woodhelvinl.. and I gotta think those are cavewights aswell

- lord willie nelson is a solid idea... but surely he would be fighting using guitar lore not staff lore?

Too old for Mhoram, maybe, but much too young to be Prothall.

Thu Aug 01, 2013 3:53 pm

That's about as far removed from my own visualisation of Covenant and Cavewights as you can get without being a picture of a Care Bear assaulting some Ents.

Post by **wayfriend** » Thu Aug 01, 2013 4:30 pm

You know, it looks like a Darrell K Sweet work to me.

If you compare it with the cover art for the First Chronicles,

... it does look most like Mhoram, although older.

In the final Chronicles, Mhoram relates how he had gone into the Blasted Hills and encountered ur-viles. So maybe.

But then again, if that guy is missing two fingers ...

Post by **Krilly** » Thu Aug 01, 2013 8:26 pm

It's a stretch, but... Berek and Fire Lions? *shrug*

There's never a clear description of Fire Lions, plus the background seems very fiery.

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