Homecoming (SPOILERS ALL ROTE BOOKS)
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15-01-2011, 13:13,
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Homecoming (SPOILERS ALL ROTE BOOKS)
Beginning with this 'Homecoming' thread, I thought I should open up some English discussions on the books (I love chatting about them! ). Please let me know if I am doubling up too much on discussions in your other Italian-speaking threads, or if I am not doing something as I should with the spoiler side of things! I have noted spoilers in the title, so I am assuming that this is enough?
I thoroughly enjoyed reading 'Homecoming' as it set the scene for what was to later come in the Rain Wilds, in both story and style. I also believe that it added a great deal of understanding to the overall RotE plot. While trapped underground in the buried Elderling city of Frengong, the group that included Lady Carillion Jarrock (nee Waljin) came across a statue of a dragon and woman. I am of the opinion that they are simulacra carved from memory stone. What or who do you think these two represent? |
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26-03-2011, 22:03,
Messaggio: #2
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RE: Homecoming (SPOILERS ALL ROTE BOOKS)
Sorry for answering so late, Annette, but I read Homecoming only in February! It's a fascinating story and really gives us a better understanding of Elderlings and their mysterious culture. Robin is great at writing short stories!
(15-01-2011, 13:13)Farseer Ha scritto: While trapped underground in the buried Elderling city of Frengong, the group that included Lady Carillion Jarrock (nee Waljin) came across a statue of a dragon and woman. I am of the opinion that they are simulacra carved from memory stone. What or who do you think these two represent? I'd like to have an answer to this question! The only information I can remember is contained in Dragon Keeper, chapter 3. Here's the dialogue between Hest and Alise about the scroll he wants to give her: Citazione:'There are illustrations of an Elderling woman with black hair and golden eyes. And a dragon with similar colouring.' But the carved dragon in Homecoming is green, not black: Citazione:In the center of the room, a great green dragon was upreared on its hind legs. Its hind claws were sunk deep in the stone and its lashing tail stretched halfway across the room. Its emerald wings were unfurled wide and supported the ceiling high overhead. Atop its sinuous neck was a head the size of an oxcart. Intelligence glittered in its shining silver eyes. Its smaller forelimbs clutched the handle of a large basket. The basket itself was elaborately beribboned with bows of jade and streamers of ivory. And within the basket, reclining serenely, was a woman of preternatural authority. She was not beautiful; the power expressed in her made beauty irrelevant. Nor was she young and desiderable. She was a woman past her middle years; yet the lines the sculptor had graved in her face seemed wisdom-furrows on her brow, and thought-lines at the corners of her eyes. Jewels had been set above her brow-lines and along the tops of her cheeks to mimic the scaling of the dragon. This was no expressionless representation of Sa's female aspect. I knew, without doubt, that this statue had been fashioned to honor a real woman and it shocked me to my bones. The dragon's supple neck was carved so that he twisted to regard her, and even his reptilian countenance showed respect for her that he carried. So, maybe they were really Elderling queens but in different times, with their respective dragons. (15-01-2011, 13:13)Farseer Ha scritto: Please let me know if I am doubling up too much on discussions in your other Italian-speaking threads, or if I am not doing something as I should with the spoiler side of things! I have noted spoilers in the title, so I am assuming that this is enough? It's all right, don't worry! Occhi-di-notte Ha scritto: |
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22-10-2012, 20:07,
Messaggio: #3
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RE: Homecoming (SPOILERS ALL ROTE BOOKS)
^ I will have to think on this some, and maybe take into consideration any new knowledge since CoD has been released, and get back here for more chatting!
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22-10-2012, 23:49,
Messaggio: #4
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RE: Homecoming (SPOILERS ALL ROTE BOOKS)
(22-10-2012, 20:07)Farseer Ha scritto: ^ I will have to think on this some, and maybe take into consideration any new knowledge since CoD has been released, and get back here for more chatting! You're right, CoD has given us much more information about the Elderlings and the dragons... I absolutely love Kelsingra and its mysteries! Occhi-di-notte Ha scritto: |
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