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Eegah2012-03-03 15:05:00

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Chapter 11: The Road to Taren Ferry

Everyone gallops north until the horses are all exhausted, and as most of them are getting ready to rest for the night, Moiraine does the same spell she used on Tam to make them all completely fresh again. But Lan informs them that she can’t use it on herself, and she’ll need some energy left to do something once they get to Tar Valon, so this can’t just be a standard cure. Always nice to see this kind of thing, where there’s a good reason for not just pulling out your big advantage every time.

And just when we’re feeling kind of good, the Draghkar attacks and creates fog to make things harder on them. They have to run for most of the night to finally get away, with Moiraine possibly having to use her pick me up spell again during it. That can’t be good.

They get to Taren Ferry, the northmost town in the Shire, er, Two Rivers, and Lan bribes the ferryman to get them across the river right now. And the ferryman has the quite giggle-inducing name Master Hightower. And the book came out six years after the movie, so there’s no excuse for it.

More Lord of the Rings takeoffs here, as the chapter maps quite nicely to the journey to Buckleberry Ferry. Some nice atmospherics with the race through the fog, which brought to mind the Black Smoke from The War Of The Worlds, though I’m less sure that was deliberate. And because it will never not be funny to me, Hightower.

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Sabbo Since: Dec, 1969
Mar 3rd 2012 at 3:28:51 PM
Hightower was the true star of that movie. Well, after that guy who made all those sound effects anyway.
71.93.175.114 Since: Dec, 1969
Apr 3rd 2012 at 11:58:58 PM
Actually, Moiraine made that fog to hide the group from the Draghkar, so that it couldn't scout them (yes, like a Crebain). Still not good, in any case.

-Kiryn
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