* * * Warning : By the Sword spoiler * * *

In By the Sword, we learn that there is but one Dog Lady, who appears under various incarnations, all women.

Who could she be?

We also learn that the Compendium of Srem contain more (and at the same time, no more) pages than there are in the book. That is, when you turn the last page, one disappears at the beginning of the book and a new one appears at the end (WHY can't FPW makes his books like that??? I always want more!).

Could the Dog Lady be Srem? A similar kind of magic could be at work here: one page, several versions, and one woman, several versions.

Also, we know that

Gateways – Harbingers – Bloodline spoilers

the Compendium is originally written in First Age squiggles, and when the Dog Lady performs her medicine mojo, she uses tin boxes inscribed with squiggles. OK, I guess that “squiggles” is not very much in the way of identifying an unknown script, but the Dog Lady performs a magic which is similar to the one that, as per Glaecken, was performed during the First Age.

What do you think?

Interesting idea. Glaeken did say that Srem was a she. Srem as the earth mother, that would make sense as her magic did heal Gia and Vickie. That brings another idea that someone else had mentioned in a previous thread. Credit to that person here....the art that Gia is producing now that she won't let Jack see. Images of the Otherness and a pre-view of Nightworld. As if the earth mother is trying to warn Jack of things to come. Or as Gia was near death, the Otherness reached in and left it's premonition on her.
I suppose Glaeken would recognize Srem's "spirit" if they meet. Glaeken also said the art of making the book was lost.....so we can't have a never ending RMJ novel.

* * * Warning : By the Sword spoiler * * *

In By the Sword, we learn that there is but one Dog Lady, who appears under various incarnations, all women.

Who could she be?

We also learn that the Compendium of Srem contain more (and at the same time, no more) pages than there are in the book. That is, when you turn the last page, one disappears at the beginning of the book and a new one appears at the end (WHY can't FPW makes his books like that??? I always want more!).

Could the Dog Lady be Srem? A similar kind of magic could be at work here: one page, several versions, and one woman, several versions.

Also, we know that

Gateways – Harbingers – Bloodline spoilers

the Compendium is originally written in First Age squiggles, and when the Dog Lady performs her medicine mojo, she uses tin boxes inscribed with squiggles. OK, I guess that “squiggles” is not very much in the way of identifying an unknown script, but the Dog Lady performs a magic which is similar to the one that, as per Glaecken, was performed during the First Age.

What do you think?

Wow... That makes perfect sense... I am impressed

Wow... That makes perfect sense... I am impressed

Don't be so sure, I am lousy at guessing

BTW, is it OK to make suppositions, or is is considerer as ASGOTMANAVGOAT(Arrogant Second-Guessing Of The Man, And Not A Very Good One At That)?

I just love to imagine...

Don't be so sure, I am lousy at guessing

BTW, is it OK to make suppositions, or is is considerer as ASGOTMANAVGOAT(Arrogant Second-Guessing Of The Man, And Not A Very Good One At That)?

I just love to imagine...

Lys, Paul encourages the gang to riff. That's where he get's his ah-deers from. (KIDDING! Paul doesn't need us for ah-deers. Not as long as his stockpile of drugs and drink holds out. [Lindner, you just don't know when to quit, do you?])

Lys, Paul encourages the gang to riff. That's where he get's his ah-deers from. (KIDDING! Paul doesn't need us for ah-deers. Not as long as his stockpile of drugs and drink holds out. [Lindner, you just don't know when to quit, do you?])

I am sure he has all the structure of the story finished, everything in place, and he takes delight in revealing parts of it, but not completely, stripper-like. He is a Reader Teaser

Seriously, it is like a tapestry being weaved in front of you, details emerging but slowly: you see a snake writhing on the floor only to discover it is the tail of a dog, and that pretty jewel is actually a dagger.

I am sure he has all the structure of the story finished, everything in place, and he takes delight in revealing parts of it, but not completely, stripper-like. He is a Reader Teaser

Seriously, it is like a tapestry being weaved in front of you, details emerging but slowly: you see a snake writhing on the floor only to discover it is the tail of a dog, and that pretty jewel is actually a dagger.

Well, I don't know. Every fictioneer's method is different. An sf writer (whose name escapes me right now) would not put paper through platen until he had =every= word of the story solid in his mind. Then there's Tolkien, who, in the first book of the trilogy, did not have a clue who Strider was.

Well, I don't know. Every fictioneer's method is different. An sf writer (whose name escapes me right now) would not put paper through platen until he had =every= word of the story solid in his mind. Then there's Tolkien, who, in the first book of the trilogy, did not have a clue who Strider was.

To write Lord of the Ring carried "only" by a wave of inspiration... wow.

But I really think FPW has the main lines of the story (which begins to look like a convoluted tree) all prepared, and he follows them along the books. We only have a partial picture, but each book is related to the precedents by solid links, and a seemingly insignificant detail suddenly becomes essential 2 or 3 books later.

To write Lord of the Ring carried "only" by a wave of inspiration... wow.

But I really think FPW has the main lines of the story (which begins to look like a convoluted tree) all prepared, and he follows them along the books. We only have a partial picture, but each book is related to the precedents by solid links, and a seemingly insignificant detail suddenly becomes essential 2 or 3 books later.

Do you get the Gauntlet editions, with Paul's outline of the book?

Do you get the Gauntlet editions, with Paul's outline of the book?

For By the Sword, yes. You mean, where he says "and yet to be written RJ books"?