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Heck yeah! I am glad to be along for the ride on Book 2! And yeah, the ending gets a little weird and wacky. To me it had the feel of Jordan needing to tie up loose threads within certain space limitations. I feel like he hits his stride with pacing by the end of TGH and by TDR for sure. I'll...

Agreed! Surviving Ogier groves, where they're described, make me think of some Shinto shrines I visited in Japan years ago that were right in the heart of Tokyo. Just a few hundred feet in any direction, there was the loud and never-sleeping city, with its glass and concrete. Inside the shrine...

Ahh, the use of the particular Powers makes that make perfect sense, Leala Sedai! I've also imagined the feeling being very similar to a super intense feeling similar to ASMR, which one might describe as a chill of some sort.

As a cat person, I really enjoy how much people seem to honestly love cats in Randland. I imagine part of it is pragmatic: Cats hunt vermin that can both spread disease and spy for the Shadow, so culturally cats will be more loved than they traditionally have been in places and in ages that...

Agreed that there is a coin/boy component to it. The other two paid theirs to Domon for passage downriver, at which point Moiraine couldn't sense them anymore, yeah? But the point about the Stedding is one I had not considered before. I'll have to look at that again now.

Thom is a total D&D bard. When the spouse first encountered him in the books, they told me that they could easily see him, if he were in the Realms, as having run afoul of the Powers That Be in Cormyr, being run out of that kingdom by the War Wizards, and then skulking around in the Dalelands as...

That was another of the things, aside from the bit with Bela, that I noticed clearly once I knew what I was looking for. Younger me had once again totally missed it. XD The stuff with the ravens, and what Perrin contemplates possibly having to do to be merciful, was something that I thought...

Somehow I missed this back in the day and was completely astounded when Rand turned out to be able to Do The Thing later on. :lol This time when on my reread, I absolutely picked up on the foreshadowing via Moiraine and Nynaeve. Made me then go back and check earlier events to see if other...

Ahh, I remember being so mad at the Whitecloaks and so upset about Hopper when I was younger. That much has not changed at all, and I am still 100% Not A Fan of Whitecloaks. I agree that their way of thinking about the world has an eerie amount of resonance with the real world. IIRC, when I had...

Part of me wonder whether this has to do with the fact that if he acknowledges the Ba'alzamon situation, that means he also has to acknowledge that that big change has happened, and it's (counterintuitively enough) more comfortable and easier for him to just deny that any of it is a big deal...

The White Bridge sort of made me think of the Moonbridge located in Silverymoon in the Forgotten Realms D&D setting. Granted, the Moonbridge was simply made of magical force and was invisible by day and silvery and translucent by night, and it was well known who had made it and how, but I...

I agree with the others! Your enthusiasm and insights as you discover things for the first time are a joy to read, and I look forward to following along for as long as you desire to keep posting them. :)

I agree with Toral Gaidin's assessment of Egwene here, and I'll add the following thoughts FWIW: Egwene early in TEotW strikes me as fairly immature...or perhaps "innocent" is a better description? Neither seems to fit perfectly, but that's kind of the idea. She starts out acting like a kid who...

I am enjoying reading your initial impressions and experiences as you make your way through the book for the first time! :) Particularly with Shadar Logoth, I feel like you, as a fellow D&D player, will understand what I mean when I say that if TEotW were a campaign, I'm convinced that Mat...