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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aesmael" data-source="post: 1710243" data-attributes="member: 22503">Now that is puzzling, Aeric. wert (With Respect To - my word, I made it up <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> ) that part of M, S & T, the ending of War of the Flowers is almost identical. Just as easy to see coming too, but was no real disappointment for that <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> I will say I enjoyed the ending of Memory, Sorry and Thorn for precisely the reasons Wizardru did not. It acted as a welcome counterpoint to the Tolkien clones I was beginning to weary of (although it itself is closer to the Lord of the Rings in this than they are). Yes, there was a prophecy, but it has been misinterpreted by the characters and, presumably the reader (I did). It is a complacency induced by (IMO, of course) the reading of too many other unimaginative fantasies to take those things at face value. Although I will boast that one part of the prophecy's phrasing was niggling at the back of mind while reading (or maybe it is my memory playing tricks to make me feel clever <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> )Well, an opinion. I have never been any good at english or dissecting literature so...If anything in that would constitute a spoiler I would appreciate advice on how to black out the text. As a glance to the left of the message will tell, I am inexperienced on this board.teh teh teh teh <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /></blockquote>

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