Kevin's Watch

A few of my favorite scenes in the Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant was any that featured Nom the Sandgorgon. Talk about intense! I hope he appears in the Last Chronicles of TC myself.

Anyway, I wanted to get some readers' opinions on my cartoonist's take on the scene from The One Tree where Thomas wrestles with the Sandgorgon:

www.foxden.net/~dutch/TCvsNom_sm.jpg

By the way, I'm not trying to be pretentious or do the shameless plug here, but if it seems that way, I do apologize. I just like sharing stuff that goes through my head with fellow readers. I figured it'd be fun.

-Dutch

www.mistythemouse.com

I like it!

Personally, I like to see any person's interpretations of scenes from The Books - even (and sometimes especially) if they don't match up with what I have pictured in my own head. Others pick up on character details that I never focussed on before, and it makes me say, "oh, yeah - I remember that."

For years I always had Vain pictured as more ur-vile than human. It never really said in the book whether he was closer to man or beast, so I assumed that the ur-viles would create something more in their own image. But the more often I read the books, the more I got it into my head that he was more in the shape of a man. And then I saw the artists interpretation of the cast of characters standing in front of Revelstone (I think it's posted in the gallery somewhere), and Vain is clearly depicted as a man and not one bit (other than the absolute black color) ur-vile. Now that picture seems so right to me, that I can't imagine him anymore as "created by the ur-viles in their image".

Spoiler

I think the scene in White Gold Wielder where Covenant summons Nom is one of the most dramatic and powerful in the books. I still think Lord Mhoram's Victory blows everything away, but the last lines of that WGW chapter - "... the name of a sandgorgon. 'Nom.'" always send shivers up my spine. Ooh! There they go again! Weeeeeee!!!

Dutch wrote:A few of my favorite scenes in the Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant was any that featured Nom the Sandgorgon. Talk about intense! I hope he appears in the Last Chronicles of TC myself.
Anyway, I wanted to get some readers' opinions on my cartoonist's take on the scene from The One Tree where Thomas wrestles with the Sandgorgon:
www.foxden.net/~dutch/TCvsNom_sm.jpg
By the way, I'm not trying to be pretentious or do the shameless plug here, but if it seems that way, I do apologize. I just like sharing stuff that goes through my head with fellow readers. I figured it'd be fun.
-Dutch
www.mistythemouse.com

I liked it... I suggest you re-read the chapters 16 and 19 for SRD's description of the sandgorgons..
I'd like your take on urviles, wayhyms, cave-wrights and the other nasties ... grins

Good job there Dutch...

Lol Romeo. Just reading you mention it does it to me. And I mean that in a purely non-sexual way. Lol.

Great artwork, Dutch. As good as your Gap work.

I love it!!

Thanks, folks, for the commentary.

If I remember correctly, as I was drawing Nom (GASP! I said it! HIDE!) I was referring to The One Tree very scrutinizingly (is that also a word??) for the description. If you're referring to the slight incorrect way TC is holding onto the sandgorgon, I took a liberty there and flipped him around as I thought it would look better if he was holding him from behind.
I tell ya, drawing critters with back-bent legs is a pain in the dairy-aire. And yeah, I do intend to draw some Waynhim and Ur-viles and the like.

By the way, does anyone know if SRD's going to be doing any book-signing tours?

-Dutch
www.mistythemouse.com

His publishers are planning a book tour for him. There's a place on the "from the author" page of the official site where he'll post the dates and places when he gets them.

He's sure as Hellfire gonna sign something of mine at 'Fest!!!

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