Rand The Ogier and the Tuatha'an

Giles Ru'Orden

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When Rand goes off to present the Dragon's Peace to Tuon in Ebou Dar, he makes the environment grow despite being shielded.

During this, Mat hears Rand singing and questions him on it.

What do we think about this part? Is there a similarity between the power of the Ogier treesinging and Rand?

Could Rand be singing the missing song sought after by the Tuatha'an?
 
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I think it very likely, as the song sought by the Tuatha'an is widely believed to be one of the seed singing songs that he heard on his journey through the pillars at Rhuidean
 
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Robert Jordan confirmed that the song Rand heard in the columns is the song that the Tuatha'an are looking for.
 
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Jeffan Caliarthan said:
Robert Jordan confirmed that the song Rand heard in the columns is the song that the Tuatha'an are looking for.
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Interview: Aug 27th, 1999

Melbourne Film Festival - Steven Cooper (Paraphrased)
Troy Terry

Seriously, though, any bets on whether the Tinkers will ever find the Song? I bet it's the harvest song from Rand's Aiel memories.
STEVEN COOPER

I asked RJ about this when he was in Melbourne last week, and (amazingly) got a straight answer.

Robert Jordan

The Song the Tinkers are seeking is the song Rand heard in Rhuidean—or, to be exact, the memories of that song and others like it have become merged, over the years, into the concept of one mystical Song.
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Interview: Jan 10th, 2013

AMOL Signing Report - Bravehamster (Paraphrased)
Bravehamster

At the signing tonight in Lexington, I asked Brandon about [the Song]. This is pretty much exactly what he said:
Brandon Sanderson

Robert Jordan's notes on this are very clear: the Tinkers will never find their song. They've lost it for too long, that even if someone stood in front of them singing The Song, they would just nod their head, say 'that's a nice song' and go on their way.
Bravehamster

He also confirmed that Rand was singing The Song in Tuon's garden.

Footnote

To be clear, RJ clarified that 'the song' itself was a mystification of the growing songs, and so technically 'the song' never existed.
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The Tuatha'an can all drop dead for all I care, what a bunch of jerks.
 
Dart Marouvin

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Ha, agreed. It's sad, but I think that's a point. The Tinkers seemed way more lost than the Aiel to me, chasing an ideal while straying far from the original purpose of that ideal...

Anyway, something like that, once lost, can it really be found again?
 
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I don't think the Tuatha'an would know what to do with themselves if they found "The song" anyway.
 
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They'd go around singing to trees. :P It's pretty clear that's their goal.
 
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