![]() But back to the original point of The Eye of the World being less of a clone - there were still plenty of echoes of Lord of the Rings and in light of the rest of the series, I think that served to ground The Wheel of Time in a particular epic fantasy context before Robert Jordan gently and gradually changed those expectations for what sort of story this was and also just how damned big it was going to be. ![]() The Eye of the World was less of an LOTR clone than, say, The Sword of Shannara (and please don’t try to convince me to do a Shannara re-read when I’m in the middle of two different huge re-reads that will take me the better part of a couple of years, I really don’t need to do three even though I’d like to talk about Garet Jax, the introduction of the Wishsong, and the Heritage tetrology). Today we’re going to talk about The Great Hunt, which is the second book in the series and the one which begins to break away from the Lord of the Rings thing that The Eye of the World was playing with. ![]() ![]() ![]() Welcome back to my Wheel of Time Re-read, where I try to figure out how much I actually remember about books I’ve read a whole bunch of times but not for almost fifteen years. ![]()
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