how long has she been gone?

[Sam 19]

how long has moiraine been stuck in the tower anyway? i have a hard time keeping track of time with this series

[Erika 4]

I would give a conservative estimate of six months at most, their calendar is still odd to me. It only feels like years because for us it has been.

 

When she and Lanfear fell through the doorway it was late summer heading towards autumn in 999NE and it is currently as of TGS 1000NE late winter closing in on spring.

[AshSnow 0]

Really? That's all the time that has passed since she went missing?

She went missing somewhere midway through the series, I'd had figure it's been longer than that. Guess not much time passed through some of the books, lol.

[Kaitlin 22]

Wow, that's not a lot of time. It's been like, what, 15 years since that book was published? No, I just checked. It's been 17 years since FoH came out.

[Marie 73]

Does anyone know how time passes in the tower?

[jan 14]

how long has moiraine been stuck in the tower anyway?

Too long!

[Olivia 26]

Does anyone know how time passes in the tower?

Hm, I think I remember when Mat is first told of the red doorway in TSR he mentions a legend about some guy named Bili who went through a doorway and came out to find ten years had passed. Just a legend twisted by time, but I took it to imply time moves slower inside the doorways than outside. On the first trip we don't get any indication from Mat, Rand, or Mo that time in the real world is much later than when they went in, but...

 

On the other hand, remember Mat's second journey into Finnland. Rand comes out just in time to resuscitate Mat before he dies from hanging... meaning Mat can't have been hanging there more than a few minutes. Yet when Rand and Mat make it back to the Aiel, they say the boys have been in Rhuidean for a week (10 days IIRC?). So since Mat went into the doorway the same hour Rand went into the columns, it means Mat didn't come out until a few minutes before Rand came out of the columns, i.e. a week later.

 

TL;DR: So, methinks time goes faster inside Finnland, so for Mo maybe it's only been a few weeks. (Or, maybe Finnland time alternates its speed like Tel'aran'rhiod, so then I have no idea how long it's been for Moiraine.)

[Sam 19]

either way she's gonna be stinky

[Ekho 52]

I'm pretty sure the Finns could conjure up some baths

[Sam 19]

they strike me as being just as stinky

[AshSnow 0]

Thanks for the explanation Olivia...but I got confused somewhere <3.

 

How much time has passed since the first book? I mean from the start up till the last book that came out.

[Marie 73]

Between two to three years

[Kaitlin 22]

I don't believe Finn time can be that reliable. They're kinda like the Fey.

 

Maybe she brought a bit of soap and some toothpaste. Actually the stink is not so worrying as six months with no teeth brushing. Ouch. What if she got a cavity...

[Erika 4]

She will probably be a little worse for wear but she is the damsel in distress so they can't make her too smelly.

[Ekho 52]

As long as she doesn't come out wearing human skin I won't judge the smelliness