INTERVIEW: Nov 11th, 1998
MSN eFriends Interview (Verbatim)
SLAYER
Do Min's viewings always predict the future, or do some tell about the past, mainly the seven towers around Lan in The Eye of the World?
ROBERT JORDAN
Um, her viewings are always concerning the future.
MSN eFriends Interview (Verbatim)
SLAYER
Do Min's viewings always predict the future, or do some tell about the past, mainly the seven towers around Lan in The Eye of the World?
ROBERT JORDAN
Um, her viewings are always concerning the future.
Again, he said the viewing concern the future, he never said the images with which the viewings are produced are from future events....
Min rarely ever sees glimpses from the future, she sees something more akin to symbols, which if decoded right reveals something that always concern the future of the person. Faile isn't a falcon, and Berelain isn't an hawk. It just represneted them, and that isn't about their future - Berelain has been a Paendrg since her birth, and Paendrags have been associated to the hawk sigil for a mellenia.The very same way, it's not because there's a baby that it is forcibly a baby from the future. The baby just represents something. Saying the baby can't represent Lan is like saying the Towers can't be Mlakier's because they're already in ruins and the viewing concerns the future. The Broken Crown can't be Saldaea because it's already broken, and so on.
Take my interpretation of the viewing for Lan. The baby and towers represent his oath, but the viewing concerns Lan's future. This oath was something he had chosen to put behind at the time, to follow Moiraine's greater cause, to fight the Shadow by serving her. In KOD, what Nynaeve did forced him to return to the letter of his oath of leading the Malkieri to avenge Malkier. I think this is what the viewing predicted, and it was about Lan's future.
Given that the Oath begins with, "To stand against the shadow so long as iron is hard and stone abides." I can't see how following Moiraine in any way goes against his Oath. In fact, as Moiraine points out at the end of New Spring, serving her gives him a battle he can win rather than an unmarked grave in the Blight.
That being said I could see these images still somehow referring to what Lan is going through now, in gathering forces and raising the Golden Crane. Also, I'm not entirely sure RJ actually had everything in tEotW fully thought through and may have had no intention of ever having these viewings fulfilled in the books.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
So who thinks Elayne will die in aMoL?
- 29/02/2012 04:02:07 AM
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Given the various Foretellings and Min Viewings the only way Elayne can die
- 29/02/2012 05:48:50 AM
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There is the one vision Min had of Aveinda where she was going to have 4? babies but it was odd *NM*
- 29/02/2012 04:53:46 PM
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She's already gone from Caemlyn at the timeof the attack, at the meeting in Merrilor
- 29/02/2012 05:29:27 PM
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I also get the feeling that RJ isn't going to kill off any main characters
- 29/02/2012 10:44:29 PM
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Ok...
- 01/03/2012 03:23:11 AM
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practically speaking you're correct. But this is a fantasy novel with a pro-protagonist tone
- 01/03/2012 04:24:38 PM
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I disagree...
- 01/03/2012 06:29:32 PM
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not everyone, but I'd bet the core group all survives
- 02/03/2012 05:51:03 AM
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Re: not everyone, but I'd bet the core group all survives
- 04/03/2012 06:46:12 PM
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Re: not everyone, but I'd bet the core group all survives
- 04/03/2012 07:32:31 PM
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Re: not everyone, but I'd bet the core group all survives
- 05/03/2012 01:54:49 AM
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is there any chance that the broken crown could refer to Manethrean? (sp?)
- 05/03/2012 02:10:17 AM
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Perrin bringing Manthrean back seems unlikely
- 05/03/2012 04:28:57 PM
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No, I realize that
- 05/03/2012 09:12:56 PM
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Re: No, I realize that
- 06/03/2012 02:14:14 AM
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Ahhh. I had forgotten that particular detail
- 06/03/2012 02:45:28 PM
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Re: Ahhh. I had forgotten that particular detail
- 07/03/2012 03:43:59 AM
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oh pllp. clearly I haven't read much lately 
- 07/03/2012 02:02:20 PM
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- 09/03/2012 12:43:57 PM
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- 07/03/2012 02:02:20 PM
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- 09/03/2012 12:43:57 PM
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Re: not everyone, but I'd bet the core group all survives
- 05/03/2012 01:51:46 AM
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*NM*
Re: not everyone, but I'd bet the core group all survives
- 06/03/2012 02:35:23 AM
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RJ says otherwise
- 07/03/2012 02:08:23 PM
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Re: RJ says otherwise
- 08/03/2012 04:53:42 AM
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I kind of disagree
- 08/03/2012 05:21:33 AM
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You misunderstand my point
- 09/03/2012 05:31:09 AM
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Re: You misunderstand my point
- 09/03/2012 12:40:29 PM
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Agreed. For all we know the baby image could be Lan meeting the oath taken for him by raising
- 09/03/2012 01:23:06 PM
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Re: Agreed. For all we know the baby image could be Lan meeting the oath taken for him by raising
- 09/03/2012 07:18:41 PM
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Re: I also get the feeling that RJ isn't going to kill off any main characters
- 01/03/2012 03:10:35 PM
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I didn't know Naelson was a Darkfriend, or Tylin either. What about Jaim?
- 02/03/2012 01:45:57 AM
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they're not main characters either
- 02/03/2012 05:58:13 AM
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Yes. I am classifying Main Characters as Rand, Egwene, Elayne, Perrin, Mat, Avi, Min and Nynaeve.
- 02/03/2012 05:42:58 PM
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Re: I also get the feeling that RJ isn't going to kill off any main characters
- 02/03/2012 12:53:41 AM
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And you think she won't hop back to Caemlyn the moment word comes of the attack? *NM*
- 01/03/2012 03:22:11 AM
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No, she won't be able to weave the gateway and Rand won't let anyone make her one. *NM*
- 02/03/2012 01:48:06 AM
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The smartass answer: Birgitte. But, despite all seeming evidence, I don't know why anyone would. *NM*
- 01/03/2012 04:36:22 PM
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It's fairly doubtful
- 04/03/2012 04:34:01 PM
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Agreed.
- 04/03/2012 06:37:25 PM
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Re: Agreed.
- 04/03/2012 08:38:45 PM
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I expect Moiraine to be the second woman to link with Rand
- 05/03/2012 02:08:44 AM
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I'm very suspicious of the whole "Callandor" theory....
- 06/03/2012 03:27:05 AM
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I have wondered for a long time if the Ogier, Rand, Aiel and the Tinkers won't end up
- 06/03/2012 04:04:13 AM
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Re: I have wondered for a long time if the Ogier, Rand, Aiel and the Tinkers won't end up
- 06/03/2012 03:10:45 PM
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