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What are you entertaining this? - Edit 1

Before modification by Sidious at 18/12/2009 01:30:50 PM


It's a scandal that this debate has sunk to this level. I never thought I'd see the day when it was a serious debate as to whether Lews Therin Telamon was as strong as two Aes Sedai.

Not only that, but the theory suggests that many women lie on the other side of 50. Moiraine is a strong woman with a strength not seen too often in females, so she's sitting even higher. There are so many quotes to refute this insane theory, I couldn't even begin short of typing out the whole series.

But I will say this. Egwene must be quite a woman if she can overwhelm both Amys and Melaine in strength. Amys is after all as strong as Moiraine, and Melaine is not weak. How strong is Egwene then... 100?

Rand is sure he has the strength to shield the six Aes Sedai who come after him, but Lews Therin is uneasy. With an angreal he is sure he can, but even unaided he wanted to try. He'd have to be mad if a woman had an average strength of 50.

Or we can bounce along to where Egwene herself says that Rand is stronger than she and Aviendha combined. He must be very strong indeed, though I don't know if this insane scale goes higher than 100.

Alanna is stupefied at how strong Rand is. "He is so strong". What a stupid statement if he's not much stronger than the two of them combined. Even Kiruna says that six women rarely defeat a strong False Dragon. Never mind the fact that it takes at least six to hold a strong male. Even if it is harder to hold the opposite sex, we know for a fact that a weaker person can hold a stronger one, and six women are far stronger than Rand is if they have average strengths suggested in the theory.

Best of all, Rand says that no three women can match him. No three women - not some women - unless at least one has Forsaken strength. We see later that he can handle even more than that. Even in TGS Rand states that just drawing a small amount of saidin through the CK would allow him to resist a full circle, meaning that he comes close unaided.

You could put a whale in the gaping hole that this theory creates, especially because RJ's statement has variations which are acceptable as shown by another poster using basic math.

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