Jun-15-2011, 11:54 PM (UTC)
Hello thar! I've been a fan of Robin Hobb for a couple of years but I've just got round to re-reading the whole series in one big Hobbathon. I'm smack bang in the middle of the Tawny Man series currently. Anyway, re-reading is providing me with some questions about the series. Such as:
- Is it possible to account for the fifteen years spent between the end of the Farseer books and the start of the Tawny Man?
- For that matter, how did the events of the Farseer books last from Fitz's first kill when he was fourteen (I think it said) to when he was twenty? Not enough years seem to have passed in those books, to me. Or maybe time flies when you're having fu- er - enduring endless torment in the pusuit of political espionage.
- Who or what is the 'Oracle of the Outislanders' mentioned briefly in an italic chapter-header in The Golden Fool? The book's all the long way upstairs and I can't be arsed getting it, but it's mentioned in what seems to be a historical scroll naming interesting tourist destinations of the Out Islands. It describes a cave housing a person who is said to be both beautiful naked woman and old crone, who the Outislanders dote gifts upon. I'm very tempted to think that it is The Black Man in an earlier setting, mainly because I like to think that the Fool is not the only Prophet who displays a lenitude towards gender and identity.
- How in the name of too many vowels does one go about pronouncing Jhaampe?
- Is it possible to account for the fifteen years spent between the end of the Farseer books and the start of the Tawny Man?
- For that matter, how did the events of the Farseer books last from Fitz's first kill when he was fourteen (I think it said) to when he was twenty? Not enough years seem to have passed in those books, to me. Or maybe time flies when you're having fu- er - enduring endless torment in the pusuit of political espionage.
- Who or what is the 'Oracle of the Outislanders' mentioned briefly in an italic chapter-header in The Golden Fool? The book's all the long way upstairs and I can't be arsed getting it, but it's mentioned in what seems to be a historical scroll naming interesting tourist destinations of the Out Islands. It describes a cave housing a person who is said to be both beautiful naked woman and old crone, who the Outislanders dote gifts upon. I'm very tempted to think that it is The Black Man in an earlier setting, mainly because I like to think that the Fool is not the only Prophet who displays a lenitude towards gender and identity.
- How in the name of too many vowels does one go about pronouncing Jhaampe?
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