[Tari]

And yes, the war happens now so indeed, there are battles. As you know, the armies of Imank are marching on Turbansk.... (pause for dramatic chords) Hopefully the battles are credible - I had to work out battle tactics, so I read some histories - Thucydides, and something on the Battle of Stalingrad, and others, which was fascinating.


i do recall you saying something in abother thread a few months ago about your research of different battles and strategies etc. i agree though it is quite an interesting topic to go into to.

~ Tari

[Gemini]

am i the only one who wasn't skeptical in da first place???? :eek: :confused: i mean Cai/Hem would be great to know more about and bcoz him and Saliman are in Turbansk and right nxt door to Dun Raven . . is it? i cant quite recall . . . . .anywayz im hoping we'll get to read a little about the actual battles . . . .if u know wat i mean.

~ Tari
I will miss Maerad and Cadvan, but, Hem and Saliman are intersting enough to keep me satisfies for awhile :D . The sample chapters have changed my whole outlook on what Den Raven is. I was thinking more along the lines of Barad Dur actualy :rolleyes: , I'm so much happier that it turns out that it was once a school and that people actualy still live there, as slaves and so on. It makes it more interesting and if Maerad and Cadvan (With Hem in tow maybe?) go there it'll make (IMO) that whole scene a h*ll of alot more interesting, because people will be involved and it wouldn't just be that sort of cliched, 'David and Goliath', 'assailing the tower of evil' thing.

[Tari]

Hey i feel so behind here!!!!! :( :eek:

i've only managed to print off and read the first two chapters and my friend has been bugging me continuously for them so they were read really fast but i like what i've read so far. i can see why u enjoyed writing Irc, Alison he's so cute. :) ;) i luv him. i've just printed out chapter3 and thats 2moro's lessons at skool. it sitting nxt to me and looking so tempting but i must do my hw first! :( and this site does not help me when im trying to do hw tis so distracting!! but hey tis a good distraction at least it can kinda be classed as educcational!! :D :D

~ Tari

[Siobhan]

When I first found out The Crow wasn't going to be about Maerad and Cadvan at all I was so upset I didn't want to read it (Like when the "Gwalhain Pass Incident", as I like to call it happened, and i refused to read it for a whole 6 hours :eek: ... untill i read ahead to the end and found out it didn't really happen :D )but now i think about it it will be good to find out what happened while Cadvan and Maerad were galavanting around but it means a heck of a long wait untill the last book comes out.

[alison]

True...and that's the danger of switching characters, as I'm only too well aware. Just that there's a whole lot of story that happens without them... I hope, when you get to read the book finally, that it's exciting and interesting enough to make up for the disappointment of Maerad's absence! That's certainly what I've aimed for. But the proof, as they say, is in the pudding...

[Tari]

But then again Alison look at the success of Tolkien and he switched back and forth simply because he had a plot line and an equally important subplot line and really Hem and Saliman and the actual war is hoping to give Maerad and Cadvan a chance of finding the Treesong and fulfilling the prophecy so it's a risk worth taking because Cadvan and Maerad wouldn't know much of the war iin the battle sense so how would the reader. it's important to include this sub plot line anwyaz to help understand whats happening.

~ Tari

[Gemini]

**bump**.....................

[alison]

Gemini's BUMP (?) just pointed me to this thread and I saw Tari's comment - whch I hadn't before. And YES Tari, exactly! The scenes in Minas Tirith have always been among my faves in TLOTR. Though I've tried to make the siege of Turbansk as different from Minas Tirith as humanly possible, esp after the movie... or did I say that earlier?!

[Eamane Elendil]

Anyway, I think that Cadvan will die (and Mrs Cadvan, who might b readin this, will unfortunatly become a widow) but he and Maerad had a baby boy, but Cadvan only saw him once, and when he dies Maerad calls the baby Cadvan.

Then... er, i dunno, i havnt gt that far yet.

just so u no, just because i said Cadvan dies, dosnt mean i want him 2!!!

~Eamane Elendil

[Eamane Elendil]

o yeah, also...
wen i imagine the nine circles or howevr many ther r i alwayz imagine minas tirith (if som1 has already said that, plz tell me!!!) cos of the circlz its got. is it?

~Eamane Elendil