Post by thomasallencummins on Apr 12, 2007 17:26:11 GMT -5
"HEED ME WELL, GROVELER."
"I have a task for you. You will bear a message for me to Revelstone-to the Council of Lords.
"Say to the Council that the uttermost limit of their span of days upon the Land is seven times seven years from this present time. Before the end of those days are numbered, I will have command of life and death in my hand.
"My plans are laid, and I have begun. I shall not rest until I have erradicated hope from the Earth. Think on that, and be dismayed!"
With these words, Lord Foul the Despiser seals the fate of Thomas Covenant, drawing him inexorably into the strange alternate world called the Land.
Thomas Covenant. A pained and bitter man who wears a white gold ring-the source of great mystic power that he is asked to use against the ancient evil of Lord Foul.
But he doesn't understand this power, doesn't know how to use it, and cannot believe that the Land even exists!
(from the back cover of the cloth bound edition)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Foul%27s_Bane
The book that made such a huge impact on me when I first read it. Something about Thomas Covenant made some kind of sense to me. He was a relatively normal "real" person thrust into a very unreal situation. His reaction to what transpired around him was accessible, understandable. He was also an anti hero that drove me nuts. His crimes early in the story were completely unforgivable and yet you end up rooting for the guy to make amends somehow. Of all of SRD's books LFB is the one that I seem to cherish the most.
"I have a task for you. You will bear a message for me to Revelstone-to the Council of Lords.
"Say to the Council that the uttermost limit of their span of days upon the Land is seven times seven years from this present time. Before the end of those days are numbered, I will have command of life and death in my hand.
"My plans are laid, and I have begun. I shall not rest until I have erradicated hope from the Earth. Think on that, and be dismayed!"
With these words, Lord Foul the Despiser seals the fate of Thomas Covenant, drawing him inexorably into the strange alternate world called the Land.
Thomas Covenant. A pained and bitter man who wears a white gold ring-the source of great mystic power that he is asked to use against the ancient evil of Lord Foul.
But he doesn't understand this power, doesn't know how to use it, and cannot believe that the Land even exists!
(from the back cover of the cloth bound edition)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Foul%27s_Bane
The book that made such a huge impact on me when I first read it. Something about Thomas Covenant made some kind of sense to me. He was a relatively normal "real" person thrust into a very unreal situation. His reaction to what transpired around him was accessible, understandable. He was also an anti hero that drove me nuts. His crimes early in the story were completely unforgivable and yet you end up rooting for the guy to make amends somehow. Of all of SRD's books LFB is the one that I seem to cherish the most.