So what makes one Ta'veren? (Wheel of Time Series - Robert Jordan in general)

Member Name: Aerith

Product:	Wheel of Time Series - Robert Jordan in general
Date:	06/09/01 (94 review reads)
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Advantages: Its epic, it's grand, and lasts forever

Disadvantages: you have to read...

ahhh, books, my true love. Well, apart from the other half and my playstation, Books.
What other device can conjure lands of purest fantasy and allow us full use of our imagination? RPG's and DnD may be the engines of it but creating entire worlds and people and languages are the realm of the writer and his imagination alone.

Doing an English Degree <still in the loooong process of> has shown me many things and among them are the literary devices and thousands upon thousands of worlds that the human mind can conjure up, magic, philosophy and the capacity for legend. Legend indeed is what Jordan can be called. As a man he gained a Physics degree and had a plethera of other jobs before finally falling into the trap of writing and the joys of being your own boss. I dont know how he got started on this from Conan but the truth is, I don't really care. Transition was smooth and in time he began creating this world.

Now, I was maybe fifteen when I first heard of the Wheel of Time and I admit when I first tried reading it I wasn't convinced at ALL about it. Dry dusty... my slippers looked more inviting to read... or watch... so I left it, but maybe six months later came crawling back, having utterly exhausted every other peperback, hardback science fiction or fantasy novel I could find. Jordan was all I had left so again, out from the Local Library came Eye of the World. I got home and looked at it, put it down, sighed... watched telly for a little while before it lured me back. I started reading again. . .

Sadly, Jordan does have a habit of making them very hard to get into, if you are not in the frame of mind and as with all other books my teenage mind was dead set against it! new, different... all teenagers rebelled, i did it through books... I had such a terrible childhood ^__~ but eventually I got sucked into the trials and tribulations of Perrin, Mat and Rand. Classic legend and myth were to be cut from the cloth of thei
r adventures, or rather, misadventures.

So, I guess this is mroe writing to praise the work Jordan has managed to create. He made an entire language, thoudsands of races and legends of Manetheran and the Eagles, the Aes Sedai and their magic. The language the Aiel use to speak of their classes, like the Far Dareis Mai, the Maidens of the Spear... I am at a point where I can understand what he writes, the inflexions and how its all pieced together. Seamless world!

And now, he has managed to infiltrate other markets. The Wheel of Time made a pc debut, as a game where you control the characters and make war. I am not too sure about how the sales for it went but I do know I would like to see how the transition from book to rpg/wargame went.

Dungeons and Dragons and Wizards of the Coast have a DnD 3e rules coming out of Jordan's series. a table top adventure game, based entirely about the wheel of time. What joy for people who have nothing better to do than me, and play silly games. ^__^

Check out Jordans books and I secretly await number ten with very poorly hidden un-patience! Jordan made a world with fully functional characters, a threatening evil taht wears a hundred faces, an empire faded into myth, an empire built from the ruins of the legends of old, heroes and dragons... and a sad lonely tale of one mans rise to ultimate power... and his terrible fears that grasp about him. Humanity and love portrayed in it, it's a masterpiece...
Buy it, read it and love it, my advice.

The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills...

Lov' Me xxx

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