[Tari]

Just a thought but when Alison said . . . . well wrote . . .u know what i mean.. . . . . that she believes the whole vil thing is inside everyone. . . . i wa sthinking about Adolf Hitler, which we were talking about during Lit today and how we were discussing whether or not he was 'evil' but our small little class of intelligent pplz (well mayb not all of us r intelliget . . ie me but hey) we decided that Hitler himself was not evil but his thoughts and actions were. and that got me thinking about whether anyone can be truly evil?

just a thought

~ Tari

[Siobhan]

Yeh they can cos like if someone has a bad soul that causes them to have bad thoughts and actions and having an evil soul makes u evil, well that's wat i think

[Bridie]

i guess we are who we are and if we are "evil" then someone or something in our lives made us that way.

[alison]

Just a thought but when Alison said . . . . well wrote . . .u know what i mean.. . . . . that she believes the whole vil thing is inside everyone. . . . i wa sthinking about Adolf Hitler, which we were talking about during Lit today and how we were discussing whether or not he was 'evil' but our small little class of intelligent pplz (well mayb not all of us r intelliget . . ie me but hey) we decided that Hitler himself was not evil but his thoughts and actions were. and that got me thinking about whether anyone can be truly evil?



Hi Tari - interesting question! I don't believe anyone starts evil, not even Hitler, but I do think we all hold the potential to commit atrocities in certain circumstances. Part of growing up is learning to understand this, that evil isn't an abstract thing outside us, but exists within us, and within the choices we make. And sometimes it's very hard to know, as Cadvan says at the end of The Gift, which choice is the right one. Good acts can lead to evil, and evil acts might even lead to good. What makes one person react in one way and another totally differently in the same circumstances? That's a question that totally fascinates me. And there's no simple answer!

There are a few suggestions in the Pellinor books. The Nameless One didn't start as an evil person: he was ambitious and amazingly talented, and he wanted to be immortal. The evil began after he made the spell against death, and realised he no longer had any pleasure in living. He lives, remember, in constant physical pain. Enkir is ambitious, and he believes the Bards are doomed, which is why he's made his choices. He is also totally sure that his choices are right. And the Winterking is probably not evil at all, but operates on a different moral plane altogether. And the thing that actually begins the evil in these books - the making of the Treesong runes - was actually done by one of the greatest of the Bards, Nelsor, who was by no means evil.

[Silvia]

She's too lazy to go out and buy it... :D :rolleyes:

EXCUSE ME!!!!!!!IT IS ON ORDER THANK YOU VERY MUCH GEMINI (always treating me like a slaker)

[Leonie]

And when are you planning on going to collect it? Or is it going to be posted to you? And if so how long till you can read the book? :)

[Bridie]

will she even be botherd to go sign for it when it come to her door. and will she even pick it up once shes got it? lol im only joking im sure your not that lazy ;)

[Siobhan]

I've been thinking (as i often do... think I mean, I often think ;) ) about who should play Maerad and i've had a major brainwave! At first i thought how about Rose Byne, then I thought "Gee, Rose Byrne looks alot like Rachel Leigh Cook", then i thought "HEY!! Rachel Leigh Cook!!", but then I thought "But everyone will think she's too old", and then I thought "Well I think she's the closest so far and she doesn't look that old"
And as you can see I've done alot of thinking today :D


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[alison]

Not bad, Siobhan, especially the first photo - she's got that kind of Maerad "look". (We'll have to get those blue contact lenses out). I think Maerad has to look fragile.

I also like that people can't agree - in a way, it would be a pity if a film was made and overlaid everyone's own ideas of what the characters might look like.

[Eamane Elendil]

hi ppl!!!
wot is this thing with enkir aniway? (i dunno how 2 gt the black box up so i just put the following in white - highlight it 2 gt it up) y is e still in Norloch??? if so many hate him, y dont they, like, abandon him??? in the riddle, they say it's an outrage that he is forcing terms of loyalty and stuff, y dont Norloch disagree with Enkir? Cadvan and all the other Bards say that it is hrd 2 trust ppl at times like these.

~Eamane Elendil