S01.E07: The Dark Along the Ways

[DoctorAtomic]

Half the book is just a glossary, and by this point, I barely know who they're talking about. The first half has good content, but I expected the book to have more of that. Just get it from the library. 

[Noneofyourbusiness]

On 12/17/2021 at 10:38 PM, Zonk said:

So Rand's hair colour was important afterall. I assume in the books he stands out quite clearly with him looking different from all the other people in the village. That kinda loses its impact when you have people of almost every ethnicity living there. I get why they did it for the show and I'm not sure I would have done it different, but it presents a few problems.

Spoiler

The skin tone of the Emond's Field folk wasn't really specified in the books, although in one scene an Aes Sedai said that Rand had fairer skin than others from the Two Rivers. The art always depicted them as white, but the covers also have notable inaccuracies compared to the text description of things. It *was* specified in the text that they were all brunets except Rand, which is still the case here.

 

Edited February 11 by Noneofyourbusiness

[Noneofyourbusiness]

On 12/18/2021 at 2:56 PM, Danny Franks said:

Lots. Forgive the brief book talk, but Robert Jordan wrote the first book as a very overt LOTR 'homage', which is what most fantasy authors in the 1980s were doing. But this isn't a one book series, it's a fourteen book series.

Indeed. Terry Brooks's 1977 The Sword of Shannara followed LOTR very closely, too, but the Shannara series developed its distinct flavor.