Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watrose.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watrose!berosetti From: berosetti@watrose.UUCP (Barry Rosetti) Newsgroups: net.games.frp,net.books Subject: Re: Chron. of Thomas Covenant Message-ID: <7212@watrose.UUCP> Date: Wed, 16-Jan-85 19:45:42 EST Article-I.D.: watrose.7212 Posted: Wed Jan 16 19:45:42 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 16-Jan-85 21:31:30 EST References: <366@aicchi.UUCP> <5250@duke.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 27 Xref: watmath net.games.frp:1117 net.books:1223 > > The reason may seem silly -- certainly my wife thinks so. But the > demonic things that Donaldson introduces in the second book are all > named with Sanskrit words that represent very good things in Buddhism > or Hinduism (moksha, for example). > > After all: would devout Catholics be happy with a book in which the main > villains were named Jesus, Mary, and Joseph? > The reason iiss silly. Devout Catholics are usually not interested in the 'escapism' of fantasy literature (not to mention AD&D) at all (cf. Moral Majority). Literature of this type is designed for an audience that wants the excitment of that 'escape', just as pulp romances provide the same type of escape (if not the same form). Donaldson provides a wide range of concepts and names that the average reader never encountered before (myself included). I find the new ideas interesting and they provide many bits and pieces to use in my ongoing campaign. However, to the reader who knows the derivation of these words or concepts, you just have to take some of it with a grain of salt. The author can't please everyone and even if the books offend some, they entertained many many others. Barry Rosetti ( watrose!berosetti )