Re: Sword of Justice - Edit 1
Before modification by DomA at 09/11/2009 03:39:15 AM
"...And men cried out to the Creator, saying, O Light of the Heavens, Light of the World, let the Promised One be born of the mountain, according to the prophecies, as he was in ages past and will be in ages to come. Let the Prince of the Morning sing to the land that green things will grow and the valleys give forth lambs. let the arm of the Lord of the Dawn shelter us from the Dark, and the great sword of justice defend us. Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time."
Lots of people have been making a lot of fuss over this verse. I think you can't pick and choose what you take literally and what you take as metaphor. The phrase "sword of justice" is not a new phrase to WOT. I think to take that it is Hawkwings sword from that would mean you would have to also find a way he will time travel "ride the again on the winds of time" and enter into some serious genetic engineering making the "valleys give forth lambs" I studied Biochem and Genetics and I can tell you that to make rock and dirt produce a sheep would be quite impressive.
Lots of people have been making a lot of fuss over this verse. I think you can't pick and choose what you take literally and what you take as metaphor. The phrase "sword of justice" is not a new phrase to WOT. I think to take that it is Hawkwings sword from that would mean you would have to also find a way he will time travel "ride the again on the winds of time" and enter into some serious genetic engineering making the "valleys give forth lambs" I studied Biochem and Genetics and I can tell you that to make rock and dirt produce a sheep would be quite impressive.
This is a fourth age quote from some sort of history of the LB times that mixes up a lot of things too, like the Dragon's titles of Lord of the Morning and Prince of Dawn that get inverted
I think RJ's intent there was simply to allude to the fact the Artur Hawkwing stories also got merged into it, his sword justice becoming "the sword of justice".
IMO, Hawkwing and Justice and the Seanchan and the Dragon all got mixed up into this passage, that's all.
Rand's sword isn't Justice, why would Hakwing's sword be found under rocks in the sea near Arad Doman, of all places? (and let's not go into the "He gave it to Luthair who accidentally dropped it on his way to Seanchan" theories)
Before TGS, I thought it might be a sword used by Hawking's enemy Guaire Amalasan who was born and proclaimed himself the Dragon on the Almoth-AD area, but after TGS and now we know it was found at sea, it's pretty damn obvious at this point the sword is Lews Therin's own.