But the Land was recovering. It's just that LFB takes place so soon after the RoD that it hadn't had time to completely recover.bikebryan wrote:The Land did not completely recover. Foamfollower even mentioned to Covenant how much diminished the Land was post-ritual.
Heck, parts of The Land were still suffering during LFB. Trothgard still had not recovered at the end of the first chronicles.
Put another way, Lord Foul recovered more quickly than the Land did after the Ritual. Foamfollower was right, but maybe after another few thousand years it would have more fully recovered and regained what had been lost.
Of course, that never happened due to the Sunbane.