[owleye]

Okay, sorry, I'll try explaining. (Annar is completely made up. However.)

1. The Riddle of the Treesong is supposedly what the Pellinor series is 'translated' from.

2. The foreword at the beginning of The Gift says that the Annaren scrolls are now 'translated here in full'.

3. 'Translated here in full' suggests that the translator has read the whole set of scrolls and knows what they are about. (I.E. The translator knows the ending and what happens to Maerad and Cadvan.)

4. The foreword also says the Riddle of the Treesong was previously appreciated for the light it threw on Bardic culture. This indicates that other people have read the whole thing as well.

5. Therefore people know the general story of the scrolls and the ending and what happens to Maerad and Cadvan. So everyone (the people who read Annaren) knows what happens.

6. However, there is an argument as to who wrote the Riddle of the Treesong. Some say M&C did, some say that someone else did. Why is there this problem?

(Point out the number where I lose you.)
that makes perfect sense you should of put it like that in the first place

[Jane Drew]

OK

so I think the gig is this:

In Alison's world (which she did make up)- And this might not all be accurate because again, I lent out both my books. There are "new discoveries" being made about the Annaren culture all the time. There is something about a discovery that was made in Morocco in like 1998, and Alison, I think, is playing it that she is the 1st to be translating in full this particualr story. So of course she as a scholar is really excited and publishing her translations of the different books of this myth as she goes.

Wait- does THAT make any sense?
I see the whole authorship thing like the Iliad or the Odyssey, It is said that Homer was the first to write the stories of the trojan war down, but that it came from a long oral tradition, just like the songs the bards sing. Scholars don't really know if Homer was a real dude or not either.

[Becks]

You lot are completely MAD!!!!


Hem iz da best!!!!!!!!!I gotta admit that Im actually a lot like him, Igo nickin people Apples off their trees!!!!!!:)

[owleye]

i bet they love you doin that as well :D

[Gemini]

you know.... i was just thinking about it (mostly b/c i'm not a school and i've run out of books to read *tear* till Sat that is! woot!) and i thought Saliman would have a great laugh, you know i nice deep laugh that gets everyone else going... *sigh* :D

[Becks]

i bet they love you doin that as well :D

Yes...well maybe not

[Bridie]

yes saliman would probs have a very deep laugh....

[Becks]

Well, most men do....

[bai_xu]

I know lots of people who has a high laugh, but then again, they are my age, so their voices probs just hasn't broken yet...

[Becks]

Yes, my friend,(who incidentally(It was the first word into my head is a boy) has got a kinda high laugh...but hes good at faking those things....