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I havent been back to this board in a looong time, so long in fact I had to create a new account as I forgot my PW and no longer have the email I used to create my old account. I was watching a movie the other night and the battle scene in it reminded me of something that I could not quite think of. Then it hit me, Dumai Wells! It was a wierd moment as I hadnt thought of WOT or Jordan or this place in a long time. Ive started around since the beginning of the Wotmania days, lurked mostly but got in a few good discussions, posted some theories and partook in a few Egwene hate threads, usually started by Cannoli. I was a true wotmaniac,I lived and breathed everything wot. I annoyed book stores with my calls asking if the next book was in, I visited wotmania daily, pouring over theories and One power Rankings, I loved it. Like so many others I started getting a little burnt out around book 7 or 8 and started questioning the direction Jordan was taking but I was still a mega fan. Then the books started taking longer and longer to come out, the characters staring becoming caricatures of themselves and instead of wrapping up plotlines that dated back to book one we were seeing new , seemingly pointless plotlines added to an already tangled mess. Winters Heart was probably the last book I ever read with any enthusiasm. I made it KOD but just picked it up because I saw it in the library and thought "why not?"I havent read past that and dont know if I ever will. I loved the characters and the world to much at one time to read a pale imitation of what it once was. But man, when it was good it was good. Ive never felt the kind of anger, sadness, excitment and anticpation with any other series as I felt when reading this one. That moment when we realized, right along with Nynaeave that she had healed Gentling.The burning anger I felt for Gwayans actions when Siuan was deposed.Mat, Mat and Mat agian, always Mat(no explaination needed here). there were so many insane, awesome and cool moments in this story that I cant really pick a favorite. But...but if I had to I would say it was Dumai Wells. Not my favorite scene or moment in the whole story, just my favorite "exiting" moment. The way Jordan described the chaos through Perrins eyes, the different points of view of the battle from all the different characters, the Ashamans enterance and Rand exploding out of the chest like an angry god, in short it was tits man. I always look back on Wot with sadness and a bit of anger that it came to what it did but coming back here today made me remember why this series stuck with me more than any other in my life. I dont know who if anyone will read this(the board seems a little dead)" but i just wanted to say thanks, thanks for all the theories, the arguments and laughter. and thanks to Robert Jordan for creating something that took up a large part of my life for several years, thanks MR. Jordan for Rand and Caemlyn and Min and the whole gang and thanks for Dumais Wells.