Hello

[Seryse ni Cousland]

Welcome! I commend your good taste, Nyaneve is my favorite too!

 

[Tivia a'Nar]

I love "the choatic gingersnap"

I hope you have found our discord

I have. I'm under the same nickname and profile picture.

 

[Anika Forsyn]

You've come to the right place! Welcome!

 

[Atane Valthon]

Welcome, Tivia! Glad to see you here.

 

[Veluene al'Myr]

Welcome

 

[Alyria Ess]

Hey welcome! Glad you've found us. What other languages interest you?

 

[Tivia a'Nar]

Hey welcome! Glad you've found us. What other languages interest you?

I want to learn Russian, Dutch/Afrikaans, Romanian, and Greek. That said, I learned Norwegian and Swedish a couple years ago and need to brush up before I'm conversational again.

 

[Cassie Dainar]

I want to learn Russian, Dutch/Afrikaans, Romanian, and Greek. That said, I learned Norwegian and Swedish a couple years ago and need to brush up before I'm conversational again.

We have a fair number of folks doing Duolingo. I’ve done Swedish and could probably survive a vacation there. Doing Japanese right now.

 

[Tivia a'Nar]

We have a fair number of folks doing Duolingo. I’ve done Swedish and could probably survive a vacation there. Doing Japanese right now.

I'm in the discord and have discovered the Duolingo channel. Speaking of, that's a really cool idea and a great way of keeping people motivated. Japanese is such a beautiful and complex language.

 

[Braedan Fearghal]

Hello and welcome!

 

[Kassidy Rose ni DaiShan t' al'Kalin]

Hello and welcome to Tar Valon!

Nynaeve and Lan are my favorite from the books.

 

[Raina Tsornin]

Welcome!!

Chaotic Gingersnap. Excellent!

 

[Ivy Alathriel]

Happy Birthday!!

 

[Dianna Melear]

Welcome!! Hooray for a fellow Tumblr user!!

This is a great question. The differences between the books and the show are very much needed and I think were handled with care. If they made an extremely faithful adaptation, the first season would have been info dump after info dump which is a huge turn off for most people. As it stands now, they're world building organically which is what you want from an adaptation. I think what people forget is that a story is an emotional journey. I see too many people who are mad that the show is not EXACTLY like the books forget this and reduce this epic fantasy to a collection of events.

As long as an adaptation takes you on the same or similar emotional journey, that's what matters. I've found myself rewatching the episodes over and over again finding the details. THERE'S SO MANY. That tells me that they're paying attention and not wasting a single second. Do I wish that Amazon would give them more episodes in a season, of course but I'm happy with what they're giving us now. It's a more digestible way of consuming this story.

These are all excellent points. Plus there are so many things from the books that would not age well and/or translate well to the screen.

 

[Phen al'Rohan]

Welcome! I'm new too, and a fan of Nynaeve

Chaotic Gingersnap is an awesome nickname, haha!

 

[Seryse ni Cousland]

Welcome to Tar Valon! Nynaeve is my favorite as well. <3

 

[Ilverin Matriam]

Hello! Better late than never right? Welcome and how has your language learning been? 😁

 

[Feros Sandulf]

Welcome

 

[LadySativaSedai]

LOVE the ASOIAF universe!!!

 

[Linkelivar Miou'Mai]

Welcome to Tar Valon.