[TheBob]

gak, i can't wait for the 3rd book and i haven't even read the second one yet, got a bit sidetracked with ian irvines well of echoes series, lol

[Gemini]

Well...
Arkan does tell her something like the treesong was made with love, and has to be sung with love (or maybe i imagined it).
Plus there's the very first riddle, the; 'First is the singer, hidden from sunlight/ Second the seeker, somethinged by shadows... you get the general gist. So if that refers to Maerad and Cadvan, and that riddle in turn relates to the Treesong itself, then that would indicate some sort of true love between them, wouldn't it?? And the Treesong must be related to defeating Sharma. See, haha, I managed to link the lovey stuff to the evil stuff. Go me!

(I'm, sorry, it's just I'm totally rooting for the Maerad-Cadvan thing. My life would be over if it didn't happen. Yes, I'm that pathetic. *hangs head*)
You're right though, Cadvan himself said that he though that there was more than just chance to their meeting, i'd forgotten about it untill i read it just before. He said that their fates are interwoven or something, i can't remember the exact wording.

I found Arkan such an amazing character, he's quite complex isn't he (but then again aren't all Elidhu like that :D ), i wonder if he reciprocated what Maerad was feeling or if he was using her to his own ends, hmmmm. I think that what he had said to Maerad will get to her, or at least make her relise something about her own feelings, and that that may bring her out of her shell, at least i hope it does :D !

I only just noticed that little poem at the front the other day, i thought it meant Cadvan and Maerad both too, up untill i read something in the Riddle, it made me think that it actualy meant Maerad through the whole poem, but i can't remember what it was, bugger.

HEY BOB, welcome to "Pellinor Anonymous- for the overly addicted" (who'll find it extremely hard to wait for May 2006)

[Rocket Sheep]

I don't think Maerad and Cadvan should get together. He's too silent, too all-knowing, too been there, done that. Maerad needs someone to challenge her to take charge and to get out there... not someone to hide behind. I hope she finds someone young and fun and learns to trust herself more and take charge. She needs some fun.

[Mrs. Cadvan]

Nah, I disagree with you there, Rocket Sheep, but you could probably already guess that. ;)
I could be wrong, but Maerad's fear of men seems to be a relatively prominent sub-theme within the story so far. I'm sure it says somewhere that Maerad does not regard Cadvan as being like one of the men she's used to. Plus there's the way she spurns Dernhil yet doesn't say anything when Cadvan's dropping his lil hints. Perhaps (and very hopefully, in my opinion) Cadvan will help overcome Maerad's fear, by...well, you know what I mean. ;)

[alison]

Maerad needs someone to challenge her to take charge and to get out there... not someone to hide behind. I hope she finds someone young and fun and learns to trust herself more and take charge. She needs some fun.

I'll be very interested to see what you think when you finish The Riddle, Rocket. Yes, poor Maerad: she's such a serious young insect. And she is having a seriously unfun time at the moment. Personally, I think she has an instinct that love is not about surrender to another, tempting though that might be, and that her sense of herself is too fragile to risk it. And she's kind of like Cadvan, in that she's apt to be stern with herself. But I'm quite serious when I say I don't know what will happen there!

[Tari]

In all honesty i think Cadvan and Maerad getting together is possible but not probable beside all the hints indicated in the first two books but i dont mind either way they could both be interesting.

i'm eager though to find out what happens to Cai/Hem (whichever you prefer to call him) and Saliman.

I understand what Alisn means when she says characters can become controlling and not obey you it's quite common of most authors whether they admit or not is another story.

~ Tari

[Gemini]

You know before i read the Riddle, after i'd read the sample chapters, I thought that something might happen between Maerad and that guy she talked to at the pub, or wherever it was...inn if you prefer :D , i forget his name, H... something. Obviously it still might, since the book she and Cadvan write together is at the Library of Busk, she might return there after all this is over (if she lives ;) more on that later), so she still could start a relationship with him and Cadvan, sigh, is left out in the cold, there's always Nerili though :D !
BUT she might not actualy live... "but wait a minute" i hear you cry "she has to write the book with Cadvan!"..... no she doesn't, somewhere in the appendicies (pg 456, to be precise) of the Riddle, it says that some reserchers (in the land of Faerie where this actualy happened) think that Cadvan may not have written the Naraudh Lar-Chane, it could have been written by someone else (Saliman, Hem/ Cai etc) and filed it under their names for whatever reason.... so, just because it says they wrote it that is no guarantee that either of them might live..............
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO :(

[Mrs. Cadvan]

Aaaahhh! That's a terrible thought!! Cadvan...Maerad...die?!
There was that thing with Honas, only Maerad didn't seem that besotted with him to be honest. But when it comes to Cadvan and Nerili, a totally different story. What was going on there? Care to enlighten us, Alison?

[Tari]

dont you mean what has happened there not what might happen there? :confused: :rolleyes:

[Kibeth]

I think that there is one character who will appear later and is a possible partner for Maerad and that is Nim the Jussack. Is it just me or does anyone else agree? By the way I hope she goes with Cadvan in the end. :)