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But by making a thing a trademark, don't you keep others from using it? That's the way with food, anyway. I suppose that it is in a specific situation you can't use it. Like for a huge epic fantasy series.
About the Tinkers. Aren't they a lot like hippies? Driving around in their wagons, using non violence. The way of the leaf. I wonder if those sacred trees are narcotic. And the song is probably Let the Sunshine In. That would explain singing it before the harvest.
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OK, I'm no expert on these things. I haven't read The Fires of Heaven, or wherever this is mentioned, in two years. Only the good parts: Siuan, Gareth and Nynaeve. I'm a slow reader, in English, and those books are horribly intimidating. Perhaps I read it and forgot about it and thought that it was just a thought. Blah.
I'm pretty sure about that the Seanchan have that type of racial politics as Hitler thought was necessary. As with the Asian stuff, all the cultures are quite Asian. The light religion, or whatever you may call it, and the wheel of time are Hindu stuff straight through. As the personal, but not free, approach to religion. How could RJ make "The Wheel of Time" his trademark? Could I just snatch Jesus and take a fee for people using it? Perhaps that's already been done.
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Just look at Indiana Jones. If Sean Connery were Harrison Ford's father, he would have been twelve or something when the latter was born. It's not impossible, but horribly wrong.
Clive Owen looks right, somehow. He is a bit young, but you can't really expect a WoT film some time soon. If ever. Just imagine him eight or so years older. It could be done in a few minutes with the right cosmetics.
There are undoubtedly better options out there. If there would be films or series I would vote for totally unknown actors. This is just comparing appearances.
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But she shouldn't be able to make a sword at all. It's a weapon made to kill people.
I think that it's just one of those mistakes authors tend to make and I can't blame the poor man. I'm having trouble remembering MY stories. I would have to make a huge database with all characters with all the info if I went over a hundred pages. Then I could randomise who whould show up where based on the likelihood. How dull would that be?
So, I'm just after moments where an Aes Sedai theoretically broke one of the three oaths. It doesn't have to mean anything. It's just for fun.
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But you get silk from Shara, through a caravan route similar to the one people used before you could take a ship to the east. Although Shara sounds a lot like Sahara. Everybody is probably right on one point or anoter.
A mad Hungarian guy made me think of this entire thing. I know that it is completely made up. How else could you make Arthur Pendragon and Adolf Hitler the same person and actually let him succeed and take his "good" people to another continent, living the Main Kampf life?
Human beings are born with trying to make out patterns and compare things. I do believe, however, that there had to be some more people further north who were doomed quite to begin with, and these people were without a land, becoming Tinkers and Aiel.
And Tosh, what about Russia? I'm actually a bit tense about them right now. Hopefully they're just mad with England, but they're no longer following an agreement which was supposed to browse their military power. Not a good sign at all. I hope that Carl Bildt has some "friends" over there.
The WoT people are not paler than I am. Not even Moiraine could be. I reflect all the light out into the room. I think that is why people don't see me unless they look for me. Then it's a 50% chance that they actually find me, no matter how close I am.
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The Aes Sedai are constantly breaking their oaths. In The Great Hunt, chapter 18 - "To the White Tower" Siuan makes a sword out of air. A weapon with which a man can kill another man. There were no men in the room, but that is just splitting hairs.
"Made from the air, child, with Air. It's as good as most steel blades, better than most..." - Siuan Sanche.
She was definitely still bound to the oaths, since she thought of how she got rid of them when she was stilled.
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It's hard to tell people apart when the men aren't explained at all and you only know if the women's bosoms are clad or not.
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I totally agree on Muppets, Treasure Island and The Big Lebowski. I'd recommend Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Monty Python's The Meaning of Life and My Fair Lady. (Yay! A young Jeremy Brett. They didn't let him sing, though.)
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I'll try to make myself clear.
I agree that the world as it is doesn't have much of ours, but that's because of the breaking. Look at the entire world map and you'll see that it actually could be our world, only horribly twisted. Not many people survived after the Age of Legends was over either, so the few who were left were either isolated or mixed with other so called races. Given that people could travel a lot, they were probably already quite mixed before the breaking. I'm not saying that it is our world, but it could be an alternative universe to it.
Look at how Cairhien (France) and Andor (England) are located. Andor to the west and Cairhien to the East. Always at war and hating one another.
Shara is Asia. I always thought that the Seanchan continent is America. Come on, the Seanchan drawl! Taken the great distance of time they are no longer comprehensible to, for example, Andoran ears. The elephants could have come the other way from Shara.
I thought that the tinker way suited "my people" quite well. We haven't been openly at war for two hundred years. Mostly because of cowardice, of course.
I've watched too much Star Trek, perhaps. Alternative universes is my explanation for everything soon.
The huge difference is that we haven't got any powers, and that's just fine. It's not our world, but it is created in our world. Jordan lives here, and we do too. We are what we have already learnt, and what we learn depeds on what's there already.
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I'd say that Scandinavia doesn't exist at all in that world. I would know, then. I think that the equivalent countries, if they exist at all, were swallowed by the blight. I thought that the early Tinkers and the Aiel were refugees from those places, but if they're Russians that theory doesn't hold.
Lan could be from Finland, the country of the lakes.
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Gareth Bryne - Clive Owen. Oh, I'm too obsessed for my own good. Comments?
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Actually, no. Only the voice, remembering his duet with Data in Insurrection. Wasn't there supposed to be an animated The Eye of the World series or film before everything just crashed with the New Spring comic? He could have done Thom, then.
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First I slap myself for double posting.
I used to think that Alan Rickman would be great as Ishamael. Perhaps I still do. He's always had that voice. The earliest production I've seen him in is BBC's Romeo and Juliet from the seventies. I think that he actually can sing, but I don't know when, or even if, I heard it.
Patrick Stewart? Does Thom sound like him, or has that already been suggested?
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Mint tea and painkillers.
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Even if she's been stilled, we will probably still recognize her, if she hasn't been too roughly treated. The agelessness is supposed to fade away slowly under "normal" circumstances, but how slow? I wouldn't want this cool blue to return as a copy of Siuan.
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The shienaran guards who let all the shadowspawn into Fal Dara were plot devices as well. They went into the trash when they were done with, and didn't say much either.
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Manowar has a lot of songs that remind me of WoT. Bridge of Death-Ishamael turns to the Dark One, Ride the Dragon- Ishamael fights Rand at Falme, The Power-a song that Ishy himself could have written. Oh, The Power of Thy Sword could be the Last Battle.
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The biggest mistake is Gareth Bryne. It says that he has been the core of the Queen's Guards under three queens, but he only became Captain General when his predecessor died in the Aiel War, with Morgase on the throne. Either he was a wonderchild that influenced people, or it's all rubbish. I don't know about that queen before Morgase. She was quite old, but how long was she a ruler? Was poor Gareth a soldier at fourteen, causing irreparable mental damages? Is that why he's so paranoid? I think that he's so calm all the time because he has to stay in the Void, keeping stuff away.
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Or, that wasn't him perhaps. But the other songs. Very much the songs that gleemen sing for commoners, I think.
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Eric Idle. A lot of feeling in that one. I can imagine Thom singing the sir Robin song.
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It's depending on how much the person eats. Swinging a sledgehammer all day makes you hungry. Working men tend to eat too much because they think that they deserve and need it. There are those who simply don't gain weight no matter what they eat as well.
OK, Perrin is probably not even close to fat, but I doubt that he's all muscle. Those men are actually a lot more vulnerable to both starvation and fatigue. Fat is good, in healthy amounts.
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Why is the bad Ajah red? I love that colour!
The red theme on Live Messenger is awesome.I use the silver/grey theme on my computer. It's a lot more futuristic and flashy.
About blue eyes. The darker blue are quite pretty, but I don't like the icy ones. They look evil.
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A book on AI and the creation of neural systems. Mixes psychology with technology.
Mort by Terry Pratchett.
Re reading The Great Hunt.
A whole lot of stories from fanfiction.net.
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I used to have blue eyes, but they went green for some reason when I was thirteen. Hormones, I think. Or perhaps I have turned into something awesome and have to learn what super powers I've got.
Breaking the Oaths
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I wonder what would be the best alternative. Air could create a blasting shockwave, while fire would just cause a lot of devastation. The Browns could probably sidestep the oaths by telling themselves that it is purely scientific.