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Marc Rikmenspoel
3 .  Marc Rikmenspoel on LotR re-read open thread: responses in fiction AT Friday November 20, 2009 07:25pm EST
I like Chris Evans' take on fantasy. He has been said to have crossed Tolkien and Bernard Cornwell. That is because his Iron Elves series includes elves, dwarves,and magic, yet is set in an environment ...

Andy I McKellar
2573 .  Kellar23 on The Wheel of Time: The Gathering Storm Review and Open Spoiler Thread! AT Friday November 20, 2009 07:24pm EST
One of the longest, most enjoyable threads I read, I dont feel I know enough to contribute but I love reading.

Thanks to Leigh and everyone onwards :)

Marc Rikmenspoel
2 .  pilgrimsoul on LotR re-read open thread: responses in fiction AT Friday November 20, 2009 07:15pm EST
I get tired of people trying to do Tolkienesque things better than Tolkien. Maybe it can be done. It hasn't been done so far.

Roger Powell
2572 .  forkroot on The Wheel of Time: The Gathering Storm Review and Open Spoiler Thread! AT Friday November 20, 2009 07:14pm EST
Quick note to Samadai before I run to the airport.

Don't feel bad at all re: transport. First of all, you needed to go in the opposite direction. Secondly, I thought I was OK because the Blue ...

Marc Rikmenspoel
3 .  George O'Connor on Strange Adventures AT Friday November 20, 2009 07:06pm EST
I think the coin-and-sneeze-guard story need to be immortalized in comics form.

Tess Laird
2571 .  thewindrose on The Wheel of Time: The Gathering Storm Review and Open Spoiler Thread! AT Friday November 20, 2009 06:57pm EST
The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel Of Time:
Sammael's scar was a livid grove that slanted across his otherwise attractive face, as if a red-hot poker had been dragged from hairline to jaw.In the ...

Marc Rikmenspoel
2570 .  daggers on The Wheel of Time: The Gathering Storm Review and Open Spoiler Thread! AT Friday November 20, 2009 06:47pm EST
I'm pretty sure the scar was made by LTT and the reason Sammael didn't get it healed was because of it being made by LTT, and he kept it as a reminder that he would one day best LTT

Ron Garrison
2569 .  Man-0-Manetheran on The Wheel of Time: The Gathering Storm Review and Open Spoiler Thread! AT Friday November 20, 2009 06:46pm EST
Luffa - pretty good name for ole Elaida - seeing how a luffa can really rub you raw.

Marc Rikmenspoel
2568 .  alreadymadwithsuffa on The Wheel of Time: The Gathering Storm Review and Open Spoiler Thread! AT Friday November 20, 2009 06:33pm EST
Speaking of Suffa, was Suffa BWS' idea or RJ's?

Freelancer @2652
Errr.. whatever can make a Fade abandon his allegiance and join Fain can probably make the Fade sweat at least. The Fade can scare others ...

Henry Loose
2567 .  schrodinger on The Wheel of Time: The Gathering Storm Review and Open Spoiler Thread! AT Friday November 20, 2009 06:27pm EST
Braig@2540

I'm not certain (I don't have the books with me), but I'm sure one of our resident guru's could assist us... I don't know if the wound on sammael happened during a regular practice before ...

Barry T
2566 .  blindillusion on The Wheel of Time: The Gathering Storm Review and Open Spoiler Thread! AT Friday November 20, 2009 06:02pm EST
RE: Lanfear in the window...

Uno (get that, the one-eyed man) saw her twice during that section. He commented that it had to be the same woman. Ingtar thought he might be seeing things.

I always ...

Wesley Parish
1 .  Aladdin_Sane on LotR re-read open thread: responses in fiction AT Friday November 20, 2009 05:58pm EST
There's a lot of fiction that's clearly started out as "fan-fic" of some sort or other. Some of it hasn't got any further than that, and some of it shows very little sign of intelligent life - in one ...

Barry T
2565 .  blindillusion on The Wheel of Time: The Gathering Storm Review and Open Spoiler Thread! AT Friday November 20, 2009 05:57pm EST
Nice one Free@2562

I've been thinking the mystery clue has something to do with the Tinkers. But that scene has always lurked in the back of my mind.

I hope it comes up at some point as it goes to ...

Kristina Rice
4 .  kbellwether on Review: Soulless, by Gail Carriger AT Friday November 20, 2009 05:51pm EST
Glad to see that others liked this one too! I thought Ms. Carriger did a lovely job balancing between supernatural, humorous and romantic elements of the story.

Since this book takes place in an alternate ...

Leslie Annis
2564 .  Lannis on The Wheel of Time: The Gathering Storm Review and Open Spoiler Thread! AT Friday November 20, 2009 05:50pm EST
And yes, it sounds like a good candidate for our hunt... :)

Leslie Annis
2563 .  Lannis on The Wheel of Time: The Gathering Storm Review and Open Spoiler Thread! AT Friday November 20, 2009 05:49pm EST
@ Free: IIRC, Fain is a free agent, so perhaps the Fade was being ordered to abandon/mutiny orders from a Forsaken? Just a speculation...

Marc Rikmenspoel
40 .  wandering-dreamer on Noodles, self-help groups and airplane parts: things to avoid when making up fantasy names AT Friday November 20, 2009 05:42pm EST
So far for naming places in my NaNo (aside from one or two I completely made up) I've actually used Wiki to look up ancient names for places and just go with that, no problems yet!

Pete Young
39 .  peteyoung on Noodles, self-help groups and airplane parts: things to avoid when making up fantasy names AT Friday November 20, 2009 05:25pm EST
When Patrick Tilley lifted the name of the British disco band Shakatak for a character in The Amtrak Wars, I suspect he honestly thought no one would notice. After all, reading science fiction and listening ...

Marc Rikmenspoel
3 .  GBryne on The Duel, part 2: How I will defeat Brandon Sanderson AT Friday November 20, 2009 05:23pm EST
I missed your previous posting so this advice is a bit late but here goes. I used to play MTG as well, around the same time you did. I was pretty decent, played well at a few local tournaments (I finished ...

T C
2562 .  Freelancer on The Wheel of Time: The Gathering Storm Review and Open Spoiler Thread! AT Friday November 20, 2009 05:22pm EST
With Fain on my mind, an idea bubbled to the surface.

In TSR, a Myrddraal being held prisoner by Faindeithdeth agrees to a deal of some kind, and we haven't seen further evidence of this yet. Whatever ...

Elizabeth Coleman
12 .  elizabethcoleman on Review: New Moon AT Friday November 20, 2009 05:20pm EST
@5 Can they just make Twilight porn and call it done?

Hate to say it, but it's already out there, and it ain't even the quality Hustler variety.

Guillaume Bergeron
2561 .  Nightbaron on The Wheel of Time: The Gathering Storm Review and Open Spoiler Thread! AT Friday November 20, 2009 05:17pm EST
Freelancer @2559

Hehe, yeah, I know what you mean. For the longest time I had assumed it was Lanfear as well, but I could never reconcile the HOW with what we knew about the One Power. So when I recently ...

T C
2560 .  Freelancer on The Wheel of Time: The Gathering Storm Review and Open Spoiler Thread! AT Friday November 20, 2009 05:14pm EST
RobMRobM@2544

"Luffa - please destroy the little man with the big knife and I'll give you a cookie."

Who is Luffa? Are you channeling O'Reilly? I bet you meant Suffa (Elaida). I will most certainly ...

Alejandro Melchor
11 .  Al-X on Review: New Moon AT Friday November 20, 2009 05:10pm EST
My sister and I just came out of watching 9 and walked past a New Moon still with the baddie vampires. We laughed all the way to the parking lot...

Agnes Kormendi

T C
2559 .  Freelancer on The Wheel of Time: The Gathering Storm Review and Open Spoiler Thread! AT Friday November 20, 2009 04:47pm EST
blindillusion & Nightbaron

Guys, I have no trouble deferring to WoG about such a thing. I was unaware of the quote from RJ that it was Fain's doing, and instead attributed it to Lanfear due to~

1. ...

Birgit
2558 .  birgit on The Wheel of Time: The Gathering Storm Review and Open Spoiler Thread! AT Friday November 20, 2009 04:46pm EST
Any thoughts that Shaidar Haran was a 13/13 turned to dark character?

I don't think there are any good fades.

Could Fain's dagger kill the gholam?

The female a'dam was invented in Seanchan, ...

Derek Neve
6 .  TXHermes on The First Lady of Fantasy AT Friday November 20, 2009 04:45pm EST
Thanks, Lou! I'm really happy to see Planet Stories get some recognition over here on my favorite sci-fi site for their retrieval of the classics. I highly recommend people check out Moore's work and ...

Chuk Goodin
10 .  Chuk on Review: New Moon AT Friday November 20, 2009 04:42pm EST
My daughters were watching [i]Twilight[/i] on TV last night and even they asked me "Why is everything so blue?" (They are 9 and 12).

Gary Schaper
2 .  Garyfury on The Duel, part 2: How I will defeat Brandon Sanderson AT Friday November 20, 2009 04:42pm EST
The “Robert Jordan” and “Harriet” cards shown above were created a few years ago for an article we ran on Dragonmount.

All things considered, the RJ card is kind of in bad taste these days. ...