Favorite Moment from the Books 1-11

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Decimus Correl

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So going through the books, I am curious as to what everyone thinks is their favorite moment from the books just to see what other's view points of the book are. Here are mine.

EoTW: The battle as they are riding from the Two Rivers, and some of the start talking in the old tongue. To me it tied into the story of Manetheren and how the Sword that could not be broken rising again to be a thorn in the Dark One's Side.

The Great Hunt: Many good scenes in this book, but the one that stands out to me is Ingtar's sacrifice. To me it spoke of redemption, and that no matter how dark this world gets, as long as they have people willing to cast off the Dark One, there was still hope.

The Dragon Rising: Lots of good scenes again to choose from, but to me is Mat's assasult against the Stone stands out. The most imposing Fortress in the world, and Mat doesn't really bat much an eye, as he has a promise to keep.

The Shadow Rising: Again lots of good scene in the book, but to me the Two Rivers defeating the Trolloc army is one of the highpoints of the book. It also showed the strength and courage of the Tinkers. Many assoiciate pasifism with cowardness, yet in the scne it described Tinkers with children, their and Two Rivers, strapped to their backs and hips ready to take them to safety, to give their lives if need be. Among my top 15 scenes or so in the book.

The Fire of Heavan: Mat forming the band. Here among all the other books he comes into his own, and outside of Rand's shadow.

The Lord of Chaos: To be honest, I remember having tears in my eyes when Nyneave healed Siuan and Leane. I was honestly torn with what happened to Siuan, and thought her a good chracter, and seeing part of her restored did make it a moving scene, to be given back something you thought to never could be restored. It is like making the blind see, the deaf hear, and the infirm walk once again.

A Crown of Swords: Another book with several great scenes. For pure humor value I have to go with Mat and the Queen. It made me laugh, and there are few enough scenes in the series come close. Nyneave loosing her block gets an honorable mention.

A Path of Daggers: Only read it once, but the scene that stands out is the death of Vandene's sister (won't try to spell it). A highly emotional scene to me, and the one thing from the book that stands out. Honorable mention is Elyane entering the throne room and the scene with Dyelin.

Winter's Heart: Lots of scenes to choose from, but the one that stands out is Mat's escape from the Palace, all of it, especialy when he sets the Windfinder's free and says "And if I ask you to wait an hour..." That and Mat discovering that Tuon is the Daugher of the Nine Moons.

Crossroad of Twilight: Not so many good scenes here, but the one that stands out is Mat chasing the Sul'dam and having to kill her.

Knife of Dreams: Some good scenes in this book to choose, like Perrin finally rescuing Falie, the capture of Semirhage, Matt being reunited with the Band (Finally!). All in all I think it is the very small scene, with Nyneave of all people among my least favorite characters, that steals things, with Nyneave in the boarderlanders, reminding the survivors of Malkier of their duty. To me it was much like the scene in Lord of the Rings with the signal fires of Gondor being lit. I could see it in my mind how three men cheering "The Golden Crane flies for Tarmon Gai'don" would spread like wildfire through the boarderlands. A strong poweful scene of determination and hope, fighting against the shadow, Honorable mentions is Mat telling Mandowin to unfurl the banners to let people know it was the Band of the Red Hand doing to killing. Other Honorable mention is Egwaene and her battle inside the tower.
 
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EotW: Shadar Logoth (Spooky)
The Great Hunt:Ingtar vs Seanchan
The Dragon Reborn: Attack of the Killer Cards
The Shadow Rising: The Siege of Emmond's Field
Fires of Heaven: Moiraine's Letter
Lord of Chaos: Dumai's Wells
A Crown of Swords: Tylin and Mat (Grin)
Path of Daggers: Rand attacking Seanchan
Winters Heart: Mat freaking out about the whole Daughter of the Nine Moons thing

I have not finished CoT or KoD
 
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EotW: tied for Winternight and the fight at the Eye.
tGH: Arrival of the Heroes of the Horn.
tDR: Battle in the Stone
tSR: Hard to nail one part down, but its mostly watching Rand and Moraine dance around each other, Rand trying to push her away and MOraine trying to get close to control him. Also the battle of Emond's Field rocked.
FoH: the battle at Cairhien, esp. from Matt's point of view.
LoC: Battle of Dumai's Wells.
aCoS: Rand comning back to Cairhien and everyone's reactions when they see him, esp. "Queen" Corvale (or whatever her name was).
PoD: nothing really brought the "Wow, that rocked!" feeling. I always treat this book as a "filler/connection" book, despite the huge battle between the Seanchan and Rand.
WH: Matt and Tuon. Hehe. Also, the battle at Shadar Logoth.
CoT: The only saving grace of this book is Matt.
KoD: The battle at Rand's "retreat" mansion vs all those trollocs. Also, Matt's adventures and battles.
 

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tEotW: Traveling the Ways and being chased by Machin Shin
tGH: Finding Thom alive!
tDR: Perrin in the forge in Tear
tSR: After the Battle of Edmond's Field when Perrin meets his last surviving relative Jaim Aybara.
FoH: The battle at the docks of Cairhien.
LoC: Battle at Dumai's Wells
aCoS: Mat being chased by Tylin
tPoD: Rand's compassion towards Morr
WH: Rand's encounter with the Asha'man in Far Madding
CoT: (Not much to chose from...) Shaidar Haran taking Mesanna by the scruff of the neck.
KoD: Mat. (Every scene that involved Mat.)
 
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bar nabi

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i can only say my favorite part of the entire series, period, was egwene being raised to the amyrlin seat by the rebels. i literally cried. :cry cried i tell you cried! plus they were al bare chested giggidy-goo
 
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I think one of my favorite scenes from all the books has to be when Mat is recovering in the Tower and he makes his way down to the training ground for the Warders.

And then he owns Gawyn and Galad both with his quarterstaff. That's right, 2 blademasters. :8)
 
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Going from memory, so these might not be in order and I don't remember which book. Also, they're not ranked in anyway:

*The trollocs breaking into Tam and Rand's house.
*Meeting Moiraine for the first time.
*The shocking revelation that Lan and Nynaeve had feelings for each other - during the rescue from the Whitecloaks.
*Galad vs. the Whitecloak commander. Epic fight.
*Mat telling Eg to stop pretending to be the Amyrlin.
*Nynaeve learning to channel without being angry.
*Cleansing of Saidin. That entire chapter was truly EPIC.
*Dumais Wells.
*"Honey in the Tea" chapter. My respect for Eg just jumped twenty fold. I had tears in my eyes and I never cry!
*The trek from Tear to the Waste when Rand was just completely puzzled by Aviendha's hostility towards him.
*The very ending of EotW when it was revealed that Rand was the Dragon Reborn.
*Mat's puzzlement over who keeps teaching Olver to leer at pretty women.
*All the Mat and Tylin scenes!
*The Band vs. the evil Seanchan at the end of KoD.
*When Alanna bonded Rand. I was so shocked.
*Perrin and the Two Rivers folk vs the trollocs at the end of Shadow Rising. I could feel both their despair and determination when it got to the point when the Tinkers escaped with the children and even the women picked up weapons to help fight. That battle was very emotional for me.
 
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Hm...interesting topic. Well, off the top of my head:

EotW: Rand vs Ishamael at the end.
TGH: Liandrin betraying Egwene's group to the Seanchan. Such a shock. Runner-up is Verin drawing the wheel on the ground, then re-drawing it in the process of explaining the plan for Falme.
TDR: Rand vs Ishamael again, I guess.
TSR: The part where Elayne and Nynaeve find out Egeanin is Seanchan. Also the part where Rand learns the history of the Aiel is really well-done.
FoH: The last 100 pages or so. Moiraine vs Lanfear, Nynaeve collaring Moghedien, Mat/Aviendha/Asmodean dead in the space of like five seconds, Rand vs Rahvin, the really cleverly done undoing of the previous deaths, and then Asmodean's death AGAIN. Amazing.
LoC: Alanna bonding Rand, closely followed by Dumai's Wells. And Nynaeve healing Siuan/Leane/Logain.
ACoS: Elayne and Nynaeve convincing the Kin that they're Aes Sedai.
TPoD: Rand losing control of Callandor.
WH: Cleansing of saidin...obviously...
CoT: Anaiya's death was a huge shock.
KoD: "Honey in the Tea", definitely. Made Egwene my favourite character (overtaking Perrin who I'm liking less and less)
 
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- when Rand meets Elayne for the first time (this one of the few things I remember from when I read the first books as a 9-year-old)
- Travelling in the ways and machin shin
- When Rand and whoever it was gets to another world with Lanfear in disquise and sees the Choedan Kal for the first time. I was thinking that this would play a big part later, or else it wouldn't have been mentioned, which leads to
- The cleansing of Saidin. I screamed when the book ended and wanted more.
- Rhuidean
- When Rand officially became the Dragon Reborn
- Elayne, Min and Aviendha bonding Rand
- Mat and Aviendha died and Rand killed Rahvin with balefire, making them come alive again
- mat and the dagger
 
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Fun - don't know if I have a favorite scene in each book - let me see (from memory, at work without my books on hand):

EOTW - Probably Nyn sneaking up on Lan and taking delight in catching him off his guard
TGH - Hmm, another Nyn - with her and El breaking Eg and Min free. (Though followed really closely by Perrin taking over Hurin's tracking of Fain and the Trollocs)
TDR - This was the first book I actually read in the series - Perrin rescuing Gaul and working at the forge in Tear
TSR - Perrin & Faile getting married, and then being reunited at the end
TFoH - Nyn besting Moggy
LoC - Dumai's Wells most likely (though there may have been something with the Supergirls that isn't coming to the top of my head)
CoS - Mat & Birgette chummying up
PoD - The use of the Bowl of the Winds (Actually it was probably another scene - but that's the main "Big" scene I remember)
WH - the Cleansing
CoT - ummmm, Mat & Tuon stuff probably
KoD - Finally Faile & Perrin are reunited - LOL


As a bonus - my favorite part in New Spring was when Moir dumped the lake on Lan (though Siuan meeting her in Chachin was pretty good too); and my favorite part in TGS is either the Verin chapter or the end.
 
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EOTW: Probably Rand carrying Tam through the woods into Emond's Field with Tam muttering about the Aiel War and the Fade on the road.
TGH: Mat blowing the Horn.
TDR: Mat fighting Gawyn + Galad and Mat infiltrating the Stone.
TSR: Perrin and the Two Rivers boys returning from their first Trolloc hunt and they all begin to sing "Coming Home From Tarwin's Gap" and even the two Warders join in.
TFoH: Rand and Avi's trip to Seanchan and the Battle outside Cairhien.
LoC: Dumai's Wells of course.
CoS: Probably when Mat shows up at the Kin's house after Elayne and Nyn were already there and one of the Kin girls starts chasing and kicking him with Birgitte only half heartedly helping him lol
PoD: Rand losing control with Callandor.
WH: The return of Mat! Rand in Far Madding, Mat kidnapping Tuon, and the Cleansing.
CoT: Perrin losing control while interrogating the Aielman.
KoD: Perrin's crazy wolfiness in Malden and Egwene fighting Elaida in her unique way and the capture of Semi. My fav fav of this one is Mat reuniting with the Band with Tuon watching him and the Band all sing "Jak o' the shadows".
 
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eotw: when moiraine tells the story about manetheren in the Two rivers
tgs: when Ingtar dies.
tdr: when Perrin frees the Aiel
tsr: when Rand learns the Aiel History in Rhudiean
foh: when Moiraine dies
loc:nyneave healing suian and leane
cos: tylin and mat!!!
pod: bowl of winds
wh: kidnapping tuon
cot: mat and tuon
kod: nyneave tricking lan in the borderlands
 
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Thaiyanen

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When Nynaeve heals Siuan... hands down.

1) Because Nynaeve discovers what no one in the age of legends even thought of
2) Because Eliada's un-informed jealous rage, murdering Alric, and stealing the Amyrlin Seat pissed me off more than any other act in the series.
 

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1. EotW: Rand, Elayne, Gawyn & Elaida meet for the first time.
2. The Great Hunt: When Nynaeve and Elayne practice getting the collar off a damane who then proceeds to punch her sul'dam in the face.
3. The Dragon Reborn: Pretty much the entire chapter of Into the Stone
4. The Shadow Rising: Chapters The Road to the Spear & The Dedicated
5. Fires of Heaven: The fight between Lanfear and Moiraine
6. Lord of Chaos: Perrin meets Bashere
7. A Crown of Swords: Elaynes meeting with the Kin
8. Path of Daggers: Egwene meets with the hall gets them to declare war
9. Winters Heart: I’m in the middle of reading this one but so far the first-sister ceremony

--Emory
 
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1. Thom's "sacrfice" at Whitebridge.
2.When the Hero' of the Horn arrive at Falme
3. Callendor
4. the history of the Aiel oin Rhuidean
5. Rand and Avienda
6. The first attack by the Asha'man
7. Mat and Tylin
8. The failure of Callendor
9. The cleansing of the true source
10. Mat and Tuon
11. Perrin and Faile's reunion
10. Mat and Tuon
 
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Daron Grasik

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1. The escape from Mordeth and Shadar Logoth.
2. The fight Rand has with the other blade master in Falme.
3. When Mat batters the crap out of Galad and Gawyn when he's still ill. (lol that was cool)
4. The fight within the Stone of Tear.
After book 5 I find it difficult to remember what scene goes in what book. It's almost like 1 long book in my head so I'll just say My favorite bits post A Shadows Rising.

Moiraine and Lanfear fighting.
Mat starting up the Band of the Red Hand and killing Couladin.
The death of Rahvin.
Dumai's Wells and Rand starting conversing with Lews Therin.
The fight that Galad has with Dragonsworn and the Shienarians protect Nynaeve.
Nynaeve Healing Logain. (Logain is cool just needs to chill out a bit when it comes to Rand)
Nynaeve surrendering to saidar.
Rand meeting Moridin for the first time in Shadar Logoth.
Mat and Tylin.
Mat and the gholam.
Mat kidnapping Tuon and getting beaten up by her.
The fight between Rand and Toram Raitin.
Rand skulking around Lugard looking for the renegades.
The cleansing of saidin. In that chapter it's obvious that Cyndane is Lanfear because she talks about sharing the Chodan Kal with Rand and challenging the DO and TC.
The fight at the mansion where Rand loses control of saidin to LT and he creates the deathgates.
Mat trying to charm Tuon throughout the time in Lucas' Menagerie.
The chapter in which Tuon thinks of Mat as Toy. (Classic chapter)
When Tuon Marries Mat, and the dice stop rolling.
 
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Kerina Mashiae

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They all seem 1 huge book for me too, so in no particular time order...

-When Nynaeve heals Siuan and the absolute bliss that is for Leane and Siuan...
-The "Honey in the Tea" chapter... (All with Egwene ever since, she just keeps getting better!)
-Moiraine telling the Two Rivers people about Manetheren,
-Perrins fight in the Two Rivers and him marrying Faile,
-Mat and Tuon!,
-Rhuidean,
-Nynaeve calling the Malkieri! For me thats really one of the most beautiful scenes of the series!
-Mat beating Galad and Gawin with the stick :D ,
-Again Nynaeve, when the surrenders to saidin,
-Mat rescuing the girls in the stone,
-Elayne learning the weather weaves with the windfinder (what was her name?),
-Mat and Birgitte exchanging confidences,
-Lan and Nynaeve when they where in the whitecloack`s camp and found out they`d feelings for each other,
-The cleansing of the source!,
-When they use of the Bowl of Winds,
-When Elayne finely stands up for herself and Nyn with the Aes Sedai in Ebu Dar,
-Nynaeve shielding Moghadien in the Palace in Tanchico!!
-And again when she gets Mog on the a`dam
-Moiraine and Lanfear
-Logain bonding the Reds Aes Sedai
-Mat and Rand in Shadar Logth and then the spreading of all the characters from there and they going their one way and becoming "individuals" with different stories for the first time!.. It was only by then that I realized this was going to be a much richer book than I`d thought, thats when I really began to enjoy it and take it more seriously. Is this making any sense? Anyways, its a huge list already and I better stop now! :D
 
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Kerina Mashiae

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Oh, Im sorry, couldn`t let that out: when Egwene travels in TAR to Salidar! That`s epic!!
 
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Kerina Mashiae

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Rand and Aviendha when she tries to scape him and they Travel to the Seanchen land!!

(No more, I promise!)
 
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