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- "The palace still shook occasionally ..." - "You could call your mule People of the Dragon, if you wished" - "Nobody teaches us how to be men, we just are" - "The ground thirsts" - "The second greatest city in the world is now a sheet of glass" - "There can be no health in us, nor any good...

I believe it works out to be about 3 years. TEotW begins as winter is ending (or should have ended) It's winter again during the events of TDR, when Rand, Perrin & co. are sheltering in the Mountains of Mist. Then there is a long, hot summer that is finally ended by the bowl of the winds. So...

Part of being a satisfying conclusion is that it surprises us. We lost Egwene, which was heartbreaking, and Rand - whom we expected to die - lives on. The stage was set for it nicely with the appearance of the female Dragon (forgetting her name) to Aviendha on her way to Rhuidean, without that...

But ta'veren cannot rewrite the stars.

Interesting to note that RJ had a degree in physics. You could think of TAR, the Skimming Place, and the Ways as different manifestations of spacetime, and in fact when Egwene and Moghedian explain Travelling to each other (I think in TFOH) the gates are exactly like wormholes that exist in...

I was always disappointed we didn't get to see more of Thankan'dar.

I would say the most widespread theme is the general corruption of information over time, outlined in the first paragraph Chapter 1 of every book. But also reflected in the descriptions of news travelling about major events in the series, how the names and lyrics of songs change between...

... and Lan teaching him to say "the ground thirsts" :arch:

If anyone has the actual citation, please chime in, but IIRC the relevant discussion is close to the beginning of TGH, when Rand is trying to flee Fal Dara and asks a groom at the stables to get his horse. The servant says that an order from Agelmar means the gates have been closed and no one...

Confirmation by Robert Jordan: https://steelypips.org/wot-tgs/node/57.html PS I feel old.

Maybe. But it's also remarkable how often we end up having sympathy for darkfriends. Paitr, Delina, the whitecloak in the prologue to the Great Hunt (forgetting his name) - all of them seem like people who joined a white supremacist cult or terrorist organization and then can't get out. Evil...

1. The prologue to the TEOTW. Had me hooked from the very start. 2. "I win again, Lews Therin." 3. The way the history of the Aiel was revealed in Rhuidean. 4. The moment when Nynaeve realizes she's healed Logain. 5. The wolves rage at hearing Rand has been "caged". The Dragon Reborn means...

True. And Elaida wants an even bigger one.

I remember being confused by that scene, too. But I don't think we know that someone was disguised as Sammael: the info comes from Moridin, and not in his POV. So he might have been lying. In fact, since Moridin saw Sammael get toasted by Rand, it seems likely. (Does anyone remember if Rand...

Why not? How many symbols of power in our world have a ... phallic ... quality to them? Why shouldn't a symbol the most powerful organization in the world be shaped like that?

Hi, My (virtual) name is Elyas and I've been a WoT fan since I first read TEOTW when I was 13. It's an obsession that's waxed and waned over my whole life since then, and the experience has always been connected with online communities, all the way to the good days of the FAQ. I've been aware...