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That's Just Like The Chronicles!
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 3:06 am
by wayfriend
Did you ever see something or hear something and say to yourself that it reminds you of Thomas Covenant, or graveling, or a Sandgorgon, or something else in the Chronicles?
Well, now we have a dedicated thread, so that when it happens, you can share it. All entries welcome, big or small.
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 3:14 am
by wayfriend
I'll kick it off.
Last night my daughters were watching the Christmas classic Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. And I thought to myself: Self, this story is just like the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant!
You've got your pariah character (Rudolph), disfigured by a physical handicap (red nose), outcast by society. He ends up travelling to a strange land (of Misfit Toys), where the residents associate him with a mythical hero (Santa) and expect him to be a savior. Then he undergoes a journey of personal growth, in which he learns to use his powers (red nose), confronts archetypal evil (Abominable Snow Monster), and saves the people (Misfit Toys). With Yukon Cornelius as Saltheart Foamfollower. :0)
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 6:24 am
by drew
When The Fellowship of the Ring movie came out, I thought that The Mines of Moria looked more like the Cattacombes under Mount Thunder...does that count?
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 6:44 am
by Sorus
Well, it's not Just Like The Chronicles, but I'm trying to find the stairs they used as Kevin's Watch on Fantasy Bedtime Hour.
Not for any particular reason, I just have this feeling that I should know where it is.

Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 6:57 am
by Sunbaneglasses
The Wizard of OZ.Bump on head,finds self in strange land,hearalded as a hero for an accidental deed/circumstance.
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 8:39 am
by Spring
These forums.
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 10:20 pm
by Dawngreeter
My wife does it to me all the time, "don't touch me."
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 2:07 am
by Matthias
reading the story about "Doubting Thomas" in the bible. He didn't believe that Christ had really ressurrected...
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 2:12 am
by danlo
Well, it was more of a feeling than anything, but when Dan Millman and his female mentor arrive at the active remnants of one of Father Damien's leper colonies in the Hawiian islands in The Secret Journey of the Peaceful Warrior. (that and listening to Voodoo by Godsmack)
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 6:20 pm
by Brinn of the Haruchai
Wayfriend wrote:I'll kick it off.
Last night my daughters were watching the Christmas classic Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. And I thought to myself: Self, this story is just like the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant!
You've got your pariah character (Rudolph), disfigured by a physical handicap (red nose), outcast by society. He ends up travelling to a strange land (of Misfit Toys), where the residents associate him with a mythical hero (Santa) and expect him to be a savior. Then he undergoes a journey of personal growth, in which he learns to use his powers (red nose), confronts archetypal evil (Abominable Snow Monster), and saves the people (Misfit Toys). With Yukon Cornelius as Saltheart Foamfollower. :0)
LOL I was thinking the same thing----Ok not really but that is hilarious
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 6:24 pm
by Caer Bombadil
I just spotted this news story today:
Uncle Joe Stalin's Plan to breed an army of hustin for the Soviet Union
A severe and involuntary miscenegation? He who made them is a wreaker of great ill?
Now, if they'd been half
hog instead of ape...

Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 6:34 pm
by Charles Timewaster

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Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 8:28 pm
by Prebe
Cool CT! Is that the name of the mall?
Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 8:32 pm
by Marv
i met a leper who 'claimed' that he had been drawn into a magical realm where he had the power to destroy the tyranical maniac who was plagueing the people of said land but couldn't or he'd destroy it. i think he was crazy but i did think to myself that sounds just like thomas coven....hang on!!!
Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 9:55 pm
by High Lord Tolkien
Dawngreeter wrote:My wife does it to me all the time, "don't touch me."
I think I married your wife's sister!
At least my wife doesn't say "outcast unclean!" too.

Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2005 7:46 pm
by Cmdr_Floyd
drew wrote:When The Fellowship of the Ring movie came out, I thought that The Mines of Moria looked more like the Cattacombes under Mount Thunder...does that count?
as Tolkien wrote LOTR long before TCTC I think one could say the opposite !

Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 2:21 pm
by drew
Cmdr_Floyd wrote:drew wrote:When The Fellowship of the Ring movie came out, I thought that The Mines of Moria looked more like the Cattacombes under Mount Thunder...does that count?
as Tolkien wrote LOTR long before TCTC I think one could say the opposite !

I've read both books. But the scene in the movie, to me anyways, looked more like what I pictured the Catacombes under Mount Thunder to look like, rather than the Mines of Moria.
Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 2:38 pm
by Prebe
Where's the river in your immagination Drew? I always pictured the entrance to Mount Thunder as a narow ledge with a plummety drop to the left and a vertical cliff rising on your right hand side.
But perhaps it's just me?
Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 2:46 pm
by drew
The Inside..the INSIDE..oh never mind!!