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Rising Force, The - Dave Wolverton

 
Description: ISBN 0590519220 / Author: Dave Wolverton / Genre: Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Qui-Gon Jinn will not accept Obi-Wan Kenobi as his jedi apprentice ... more
Rising Force, The - Dave Wolverton ... until he learns to control his anger and fear, but when Obi-Wan encounters evil for the first time, he is forced to control his emotions.

Newest Review: ... are strict: the knights can only choose a child who's under the age of thirteen. The young Jedis who didn't have the ... more

 ... luck of being chosen are normally sent to work as a healer or farmer... Among all these Jedis lives an almost thirteen years old Obi-Wan Kenobi. And this age makes him afraid of having to face the fate of becoming some sort of farmer. But he gets a last chance of becoming the Padawan from Qui-Gonn Jinn who's just at the temple, but he's not the only one trying to become Jinn's Padawan - and so he has to fight against his old enemy Bruck, another Jedi of Obi-Wan's age, who’s also trying to a...more

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The Rising Force This is the beginning of the "new" starwars stories, about 45 years before ‘StarWars - A New Hope’ and dozens of centuries after the fierce Sith-Wars. It shows very interesting, though sometimes not so detailed, the way how young force-sensitive children become jedi-knights. They are brought as soon as they're discovered to be force-sensitive to the jedi temple on the galaxy's capital planet Coruscant. Here they achieve wisdom in all cases of the bright side of the force. They're taught to serve the weak and to help all beings who are in need of this help. Young Jedis will become Padawans (Jedi ...  Read the complete review

 

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