From: erica@cc.gatech.edu (Erica Liebman)
Subject: Re: Aes Sedai
Keywords: Sedai, Templar, Masonry
Reply-To: erica@cc.gatech.edu (Erica Liebman)
Organization: College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 06:10:47 GMT

More references!

Nine rings tavern : lord of the rings
Wound in the side of Rand: fisher king
Nynaeve : another name for Vivian, the sorceress in the Arthur legends
  who is the nemesis of / lover of Merlin
P & M : Pippin and Merry are the primary sidekicks of Frodo as Matrim and
 Perrin are of Rand.  Notice (I got a kick out of this) that he took bits of
the two names and mixed 'em up!

Since I just discovered the books this week, I need to catch up on the
latest gossips.  Would someone post the summaries of the neatest stuff
discovered about our Wheelish friends?  This is what I have figured out
for myself.
^L
1. Rand, the dragon, is the son of the wife of the brother of the king
who is the father of Lan.
2. He has a brother who is part cousin of lan and part bad-guy/forsaken.
He gets shot by Perrin who is a wolfbrother, can dream the wolf dream
but has otherwise no special lineage or powers.
3. Mat is Artur Pendreag OR Aemon reborn.  Whoever had the red eagle banner.
He has picked up on this now, speaks old-tounge perfectly and remembers
battles he ought not to.  He is the one most in control of Ta'verenishness
and has a deathwish. He also has blown the horn and thus can do it again.
(well, sort of)
4. The name al'Thor probably means that Tam is descended from the old king
Thorin mentioned in the books (ANOTHER REFERENCE TO LOTR!)
5. Nynaeve is in love with Lan who is bonded to Morraine who plans to pass
him off to her friend who plans to pass him off to Nynaeve given that
Morraine has the intelligence to die soon.
6. Jordan is really into chinese cooking, but assumes that anyone who can
make food that good has got to be fundamentally evil.
7. Selene/Lanfear is one sick puppy-babe but is actually out to protect Rand
for now.
8. Bayle Domon owns the only boat sailing in this strange land or is himself
Ta'varen.
9. There are darkfriends scattered just EVERYWHERE including the darned
tinkers.
The song of the Tinkers is the song of Saidin which is also the song of
the treebrothers? (Well, maybe).  Rand has to join the tinks with the
aiels and get 'em humming the true song/way of the leaf. (You will know it
luke, er perrin, er rand, when you hear it).
10. The three women looking over Rand at the end (where he dies, hopefull
old) are Elayne, Min and Lanfear. Just my guess.  If this is Aiel-ish thhis
means that there better be some major bonding between the ladies before they
force him to get married.  Probabilities on these three ladies becomeing
GOOD friends are shall we say, limited.
11. Luc/Isam claimed to be the rightful heir of Andor.  I think that his
mother's uncle was the one who cut down the tree, her brother made claim
to the throne and his mother the one who married the king of Malkier's brother
and later gave birth to Rand. (Whew!)  This means that Rand can claim also
the throne of Andor, especially if he marries Elayne.
12.  Loial's gonna get married to that she-ogier one of these days. However
it will kill the story if he gets caught before the last book.  I think his
primary importance is that he is a tree-singer/tree-brother.  Have you
noticed that they keep showing bits of histories about the age.  Do you think
that Loial is the author?
13. What are the chances that Domon actually gets those damned bracelets
over the side of his boat and down into the Marriana trench equivalent.  I
say VERY small.  Hopefull, they go on the arms of the wrong dragon/faux dragon.
14. Beautiful Galad, clearly a rip off of Arthur's galahad, is the love
interest for Egwene, is either the brother of/son-of/cousin of Morraine.
He is, however, getting corrupted by the children of the light and may
be involved in the plot which overthrew the amarylin seat. No, checking my
appendix, I note that he is the son of the missing Tigraine, but again is
tied to the throne of Andor.

Well, this is what I have figured out or am wondering on.  What other topics/
answers are there out there?

Thanks in advance,

Erica