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I'm up a little too early, mostly because I haven't gone to sleep. Bad me. I'll probably pass out shortly, though.
I just reread 'Eyes of the Dragon' and it's interesting to see how the ground work for the Dark Tower series is laid out in it. It almost reads like a trial run for The Gunslinger. King Roland, dwelling in Delain, in a place that waited for the coming of the White, although it knew it not. Flagg, although a younger, more obviously fallable version than the one found in the Stand, and in the later books. This Flagg, although still old and dark, has a bit more humanity to him, I think.
Theory: The Eyes of the Dragon is set in the world of the Gunslinger, /before/ the world moved on, but far after the age of the ancients. It is not Gilead, and although it may be the same /broad/ region, it is not close to that worthy place, or where that place might eventually be. For one thing, Delain is much closer to a sea than Gilead is, if Roland's thoughts on the subject are to be trusted. There are no gunslingers; gunpowder is a rare commodity, but soldiers have it, and there are no gunslingers mentioned. But the system of government is not entirely different, and neither are some things mentioned: the Great Letters, the High Blood (from which the High Speech may have sprung?), the religious organization (such as it is), 'the coming of the White', and of course, Flagg. So, let me make a narrative leap, and say that from the line of Peter (who,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
undauntra, could be said to be 'Dragon-Blooded' in a way), eventually comes a man named Arthur Eld. Who, after the kingdom of Delain moves on (perhaps Flagg evenutally triumphs over it, in some new guise), travels to the south or west with his boon companions, and in due time, founds a new kingdom, built on the ideals of the old, and calls it Gilead? As of Thomas? I believe that it may be from him that the line of gunslingers are eventually born, when he returns from his travels, a stronger man than he left. He inspires the profession or founds it outright, and he and his ka-tet eventually confront Flagg again. They probably die, but bravely, guns blazing...it may (or may not) be significant that it was in /Thomas/ that the crack shooting resided, and I think a significant portion of his weakness had been burned out of him by the end of the book.
I'm up a little too early, mostly because I haven't gone to sleep. Bad me. I'll probably pass out shortly, though.
I just reread 'Eyes of the Dragon' and it's interesting to see how the ground work for the Dark Tower series is laid out in it. It almost reads like a trial run for The Gunslinger. King Roland, dwelling in Delain, in a place that waited for the coming of the White, although it knew it not. Flagg, although a younger, more obviously fallable version than the one found in the Stand, and in the later books. This Flagg, although still old and dark, has a bit more humanity to him, I think.
Theory: The Eyes of the Dragon is set in the world of the Gunslinger, /before/ the world moved on, but far after the age of the ancients. It is not Gilead, and although it may be the same /broad/ region, it is not close to that worthy place, or where that place might eventually be. For one thing, Delain is much closer to a sea than Gilead is, if Roland's thoughts on the subject are to be trusted. There are no gunslingers; gunpowder is a rare commodity, but soldiers have it, and there are no gunslingers mentioned. But the system of government is not entirely different, and neither are some things mentioned: the Great Letters, the High Blood (from which the High Speech may have sprung?), the religious organization (such as it is), 'the coming of the White', and of course, Flagg. So, let me make a narrative leap, and say that from the line of Peter (who,
undauntra, could be said to be 'Dragon-Blooded' in a way), eventually comes a man named Arthur Eld. Who, after the kingdom of Delain moves on (perhaps Flagg evenutally triumphs over it, in some new guise), travels to the south or west with his boon companions, and in due time, founds a new kingdom, built on the ideals of the old, and calls it Gilead? As of Thomas? I believe that it may be from him that the line of gunslingers are eventually born, when he returns from his travels, a stronger man than he left. He inspires the profession or founds it outright, and he and his ka-tet eventually confront Flagg again. They probably die, but bravely, guns blazing...it may (or may not) be significant that it was in /Thomas/ that the crack shooting resided, and I think a significant portion of his weakness had been burned out of him by the end of the book.