Category: kingkiller alchemy
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Kvothe and Chandrian : What do they mean?
Spoilers in this post, as always, though I’ll remind you that I personally am okay with spoilers because only a culture starved for wonder would care about spoilers. In eras filled with wonder like the Middle Ages, they loved a good spoiler. Opera attendees still love good spoilers. The reason I don’t care about spoilers…
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Tehlu Caught and Felled Encanis — How does this Apply?
Spoilers for Kingkiller follow. Over on Reddit in response to the last post on Felling, /u/loratcha asked a question about Tehlu and Encanis: Question: I scanned your blog post quickly, and you don’t seem to mention that Felling is related to the capture of Encanis… On the eighth day, Tehlu caught and felled Encanis. (thus,…
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Felling and Man Waiting to Die : The Name of the Wind Prologue
We’re reading The Name of the Wind for the 10th Anniversary Edition in preparations for Doors of Stone. Today we’re focused on the prologue’s use of Felling and a man waiting to die — if you haven’t grabbed ahold of my 13 assumptions for any Kingkiller Reread, you might want to do that. Spoilers inside, of course, but as…
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The Name of the Wind Tenth Anniversary Reread : Appendices and Details
Well the last post on my The Name of the Wind Tenth Anniversary Reread accidentally blew up Google Alerts for some folk but it also got John Granger (the literary critic) to buy a copy of The Name of the Wind, so I consider it a net good. This one will focus on some new…
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Doors of Stone release prep : Kingkiller Reread Intro
Ten years ago, I read Name of the Wind and felt captured by a kindred spirit who cared deeply about the state of the world, the fantasy canon, and the capacity of prose to be poetry and myth. Five years later, I read Wise Man’s Fear and the feeling compounded as I started noticing layers:…
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Kingkiller Alchemy: Refining Kvothe
I read the opening lines of Wise Man’s Fear: “dawn was coming.” At first, seeing that WMF’s prologue read as a one-page metaphor of a three-part silence, I thought he actually copied and pasted the thing. I didn’t mind it, in fact it set the tone well for WMF. But then, halfway through the reading,…