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Interview: 2010
Twitter 2009-2010 (WoT) (Verbatim)Brandon Sanderson (21 June 2010 (Facebook))
A fanmail tonight includes a request for Gawyn to die, and Egwene to hook up with Galad. At least it's not another begging for Rand + Egwene.BRANDON SANDERSON
Wow. I did not mean to start an epic Gawyn/Galad/Egwene/Rand thread on my Facebook, but I appear to have done so.BRANDON SANDERSON
Some interesting reading if you're thinking/talking about Gawyn as a character can be found here: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight—Wikipedia(from the comments)
One other way to think of it is thus: The Wheel will keep on turning, and the Age that we live in (or like unto it) will someday arrive. Legends from what is happening in these books will have survived, and become the Arthur legends during our day. Or, in other cases, stories of other characters have survived in other mythologies. (Look up the Slavic god Perun sometime.)
Perrin is not a god, nor is Gawyn the knight of that story I linked. But perhaps someone who lived long ago, in another Age, gave birth to rumors about a young nobleman who made a mistake, and bore the weight of that sin for the rest of his days. And that gave birth to stories, which in turn inspired a poet to write a tale.
Footnote
The writer of the fanmail in question posted and elaborated at 13th Depository.Tags
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Interview: 2010
Twitter 2009-2010 (WoT) (Verbatim)sleepinghour (8 November 2010)
Who is the best swordsman in WoT right now? Lan, Galad, or Gawyn?Brandon Sanderson (8 November 2010)
Lan. Then Galad. Then Gawyn. Gawyn is luckier than he thinks he is.Tags
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Interview: 2011
Twitter 2011 (WoT) (Verbatim)Lira Leirner (18 March 2011)
Here's a question: Why does Elayne (and RJ in an interview) say that Galad fancied Nynaeve when he clearly fancied Egwene?LIRA LEIRNER
Especially considering that RJ said "at the beginning"... I could imagine Galad having liked Nynaeve in Samara but that's it.Brandon Sanderson (18 March 2011)
Interesting. I honestly didn't know that he'd said that re: Galad/Nynaeve. Will you send me a link to the quote?LIRA LEIRNER
I saw it in at least one other interview as well. Can you open this link? If not I'll copy paste x http://ow.ly/4ijHn2BRANDON SANDERSON
I'll save the link until after I get off the plane. Thanks! I have real trouble keeping track of all these interviews.Tags
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Interview: Aug 30th, 1999
Sydney Independent Theatre Q&A (Verbatim)Sastan
In Lord of Chaos when Elenia told Rand that Morgase and Tigraine weren't cousins, Rand felt really relieved. Was it because he thought there was something wrong having a relationship with his second cousin?Robert Jordan
Well he's not sure exactly how close his relationship to Elayne might be, how close his blood relationship might be. That's what he wanted to find out. He's in love with her and he'd really like to get it on with her but on the other end, he thinks he's gotta stay away from her to keep her safe. And on top of that, if she comes to stay, and god he might be related to her, and you know, how close is he? What is the relationship? He doesn't know. For all he knows there might be some way that he's as good as her brother. He's gotta find out. But he's gotta find out without letting anybody know why he wants to find out or even really that he is trying to find out.Sastan
But if he finds, because Galad is his half brother and also Elayne's half brother, won't he find anything wrong with that?Robert Jordan
No. The way the mother-father relationship works is different. He has a blood relationship to Galad. He has no blood relationship to Elayne. None. At least not close enough to be counted by anybody except by how many lines of connection you have to the family of Andor.Sastan
The reason that Morgase got her throne was because she was the most closely related to Tigraine.Robert Jordan
That's part of it. You gotta be closely related to put in a claim. After that it becomes political. In a way almost like... More like a republic than a democracy in that the electorate is limited. And in this case, the electorate is limited to the nobles. How many nobles can you get to support you. And she was able to get enough, finally, after something very close to a civil war to gain the throne.Footnote
Sastan claimed this question in his own report.Tags
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Interview: Aug 30th, 1999
Sydney Independent Theatre Report - Sastan (Paraphrased)Sastan
I managed to ask him about the issue of Rand and Elayne, asking why Rand felt so relieved when he was told he was not closely related to Elayne.Robert Jordan
RJ explained along the lines of how this was a quest that and alone could solve, that he needed to find out without anyone else knowing about it. He did not, however, say that it was settled that Tigraine and Morgase are not cousins. Even when I asked him a second time, he refused to say. Yet he did say, when I asked, that he did not consider Rand and Elayne's relationship through Galad to be of importance, or that they were related by blood. I agreed with the second part.Tags
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Interview: Nov 11th, 2000
Barnes and Noble Chat (Verbatim)Rob Hill from Cardiff, Wales, U.K.
Who would win in a sword fight between Lan and Galad? My money's on Lan.Robert Jordan
(laughs) Unless you can find someone else to bet with, use your money to buy yourself some beer.Tags
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Interview: Sep 3rd, 2005
DragonCon Signing Reports - Matt Hatch (Verbatim)Isabel
Since you said Galad fancied Nynaeve first. But in The Great Hunt I thought he fancied Egwene first because he asked Egwene for a walk in the garden.Robert Jordan
Galad just thought Egwene was pretty and that it would be nice to walk with her. (Harriet added that it doesn't always have to be love at first sight.)Isabel
I wanted to ask RJ some more about the Galad fancied Nynaeve thing. I searched up the quotes in book two that pointed to Egwene. (Didn't have three with me and no good access to internet or my notes.) With this answer I really think there are much more relations and mistaken thought by characters than we thought. Gawyn thought Galad fancied Egwene, remember...And not all quotes are what they seem to be. I think 90 percent of the people or even more just assumed the Elayne quote was a mistake. I certainly did!!!Tags
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Interview: Sep 2nd, 2005
DragonCon Report - Isabel (Paraphrased)Isabel
Anyway, my first question was: In book 10 Elayne mentioned that Galad fancied Nynaeve or had for a time. Did I miss something?
(I put his answer on tape, will type out his words, it will be as close to it as I can get it. Although my tape recorder doesn't pick out everything and I am not going to listen to something 10 times to find his exact exact words. But it is really close.)
Robert Jordan
First he had to repeat the question: In the tenth book there was a thought that Galad fancied Nynaeve. I thought by Elayne.Isabel
Yeah. Yeah, and eh it's hard to keep up exactly with who thought what and when.Robert Jordan
Galad did have a certain interest in Nynaeve early on. As sometimes happens that interest has shifted. He is obviously not attracted to Nynaeve any more.Isabel
When did he have the attraction?Robert Jordan
In the beginning when he goes to Nynaeve room. At that time he was interested in her. And Elayne still thinks he is...Isabel
But at that time he was interested in Egwene, I thought.Robert Jordan
No not yet. Not at that time.Isabel
(Probably staring at him in amazement.)Robert Jordan
No not yet.Tags
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Interview: Sep 2nd, 2005
DragonCon Report - Isabel (Paraphrased)Question
If Galad and Rand were to fight with swords who would win? (laughter)Robert Jordan
Well it's not going to happen. I would say Rand would, at least until recently.Tags
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Interview: Sep 4th, 2005
DragonCon Report - Matt Hatch (Paraphrased)Question
It seems to me that Rand has a half brother, and I was wondering if any of the characters knew and if it mattered?Robert Jordan
RAFO.Tags
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Interview: Nov 15th, 2009
TGS Signing Report - Freelancer (Paraphrased)Question
Were the references to Galad, both from Rand's technicolor scrying of Perrin and Tam's mention, intentionally left in place as teasers, or an accidental artifact of the book division?Brandon Sanderson
Intentional.Tags
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Interview: Jul 16th, 2011
PolarisCon Report - herid (Paraphrased)herid
I asked about Galad and his parallels with Mordred that I discussed here.Brandon Sanderson
He started nodding before I finished describing the parallels and said that yes, he was aware of those. But he of course didn't say anything specific about how exactly this might play out. He did say that he has much less freedom with Galad than with some other characters as Galad's plotline was mapped out in detail by RJ.Tags
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Interview: 2012
Memories of Light (Verbatim)Day 6
The right thing had always seemed clear to Galad before, but never had it felt as right as this. Those streaks of light were like indicators on a map, arrows pointing his way. The Light itself guided him. It had prepared him, placed him here at this moment. (p. 725)Tags
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Interview: Oct 15th, 2011
NY ComicCon Report - Ted Herman (Paraphrased)Ted Herman
Why didn't the Seanchan invade Ghealdan?Brandon Sanderson
MAFO. Brandon replied that it may be due to all the problems caused by Ituralde's raids, and possibly the issue with Galad's desertion as well.
Alan Romanczuk
Their plan was to push east quickly through Illian and eventually sweep north into Andor and beyond. Ghealdan was not a military threat to them for the time being, and it would fall easily to them once they had consolidated control of the southeast. There are only so many fronts on which an army wishes, or should wish, to fight simultaneously, even an army of great strength. History is littered with the corpses of generals who made that mistake.
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Interview: Jul 11th, 2010
Chat with Brandon Sanderson (Verbatim)Dylan
Do we see Rand much in the new book? Or will he be like Perrin, Mat or Elayne in The Gathering Storm?Brandon Sanderson
Will we see Rand in the next book? YES. The book will not be a 100% flash-back like Book 10. There will be a little bit of catch-up for Perrin, but Egwene and Rand both have large parts too.
BECKSTER45
Is Mat in Towers of Midnight?
BRANDON SANDERSON
Yes. Lots of Mat. Promise.
RLRHORROCKS
What happened to Elayne? It seemed she fell off the earth in the last book.
BRANDON SANDERSON
It was tough to decide that Elayne would not appear in The Gathering Storm. I knew we didn't have room for everyone. Thing is, Elayne was way ahead of everyone else in her plotline. (Meaning what she needed to get done.) And so, with great regret, I moved her to Towers of Midnight. She will appear, as will her wonderful Warder.
BECKSTER45
Will we see Galad in Towers of Midnight?
BRANDON SANDERSON
so far, I'm on record as saying this: Almost everyone who did not appear in The Gathering Storm appears in Towers of Midnight. No promises on anyone other than Main Characters, like Mat/Elayne. But expect to see a lot of people return who didn't appear in The Gathering Storm. Also, Galad happens to be one of my personal favorite characters.
FRANKLINE
Do we get anything about Shocklances?
MYX
I'm pretty late to this party, so if I don't get an answer to my question..no worries...But any chance of Egwene ever putting Cadsuane in her place?
BRANDON SANDERSON
Re: Shocklances (sp? I should really know that one) and Egwene/Cadsuane. Double RAFO. Pow!
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Interview: Jul 11th, 2010
Chat with Brandon Sanderson (Verbatim)Milk Man
Will Rand ever voice his known connection to his half brother?Brandon Sanderson
RAFO. ;)Tags
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Interview: 2011
Twitter 2011 (WoT) (Verbatim)Dean Foster (14 November 2011)
Will Galad ever find out he's Rand's half brother?Brandon Sanderson (14 November 2011)
Ha! You know I'm going to RAFO that.Tags
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Interview: Dec 2nd, 2010
4th Age Podcast Interview with Team Jordan (Verbatim)Virginia
Okay. Well…I guess we'll just go into the pronunciations.
SPENCER POWELL
Well, our next little bit needs a little bit of a lead-in for our listeners who don't have access to our huge list of questions like we do. As part of our interview questions, we have a list of words, and we asked, "How do you pronounce each of these words?" And there are about 43 of them. There are probably some on here that don't need to be on here, and I know that there aren't some on here that should be, but these are the 43 that we came up with.
VIRGINIA
Yeah, Spencer got mad at me because I went and annotated the list, like…I gotta be exact, and he's like "No…"
SPENCER POWELL
I didn't get mad at you! I just took 'em off; I'm like, "Oh yeah, you're right; take that one off." Anyway. And so Maria, Alan…would you please go through the list and tell us how to pronounce these names and places?
Maria Simons
Okay, here we go. And I may, you know, be wrong on some. But others, I'm pretty sure of.
VIRGINIA
And feel free to add some in if something occurs to you as you're going.
MARIA SIMONS
O-kay. We have add-uh-LAY-us. (Adeleas) el-FINN. (Aelfinn) eyes-DEYE-shar. (Aesdaishar) (RJ used EYE to rhyme with the word 'eye') ahm-uh-DEE-see-uh. (Amadicia) [glossary: ah-mah-DEE-see-ah] (ah=ahhh sound, uh=schwa) ERR-id doe-MAHN. (Arad Doman) [glossary: AH-rad do-MAHN] arr-uh-FELL. (Arafel) [glossary: AH-rah-fehl] brr-GEE-tuh. (Birgitte) (hard G) [glossary: ber-GEET-teh] Brenn. (Bryne) [glossary: BRIHN, GAH-rehth] KEYE-ree-enn. (Cairhien) [glossary: KEYE-ree-EHN] CHA fah-EEL. (Cha Faile) (mid ch) drag-car. (Draghkar) [glossary: DRAGH-kahr] EEL-finn. (Eelfinn) guh-LAHD. (Galad) [glossary: gah-LAHD] GAH-win. (Gawyn) [glossary: GAH-wihn] GALE-donn. (Ghealdan) [glossary: GHEL-dahn] I'm not sure if it's huh-REEN or huh-REEN-uh. (Harine) din toe-GAHR-uh Two Winds. ILL-ee-in. (Illian) [glossary: IHL-lee-ahn] ill-ee-AY-nuh. (? - AY is long A) CAN-door. (Kandor) (door like the word) lee-AH-nuh. (Leane) [glossary: lee-AHN-eh shah-REEF] mall-KEER. (Malkier) [glossary: mahl-KEER] my-EEN. (Mayene) [glossary: may-EHN] myur-an-DEE. (Murandy) [glossary: MEW-ran-dee] MEER-drahl. (Myrddraal) [glossary: MUHRD-draal] NEIGH-bliss. Sorry. NAY-bliss. [laughter] (Nae'blis) NEFF. (Naeff?) nee-AHM Passes (Niamh Passes) nigh-NEEV. (Nynaeve) [glossary: NIGH-neev al-MEER-ah] Plains of mah-REE-doh. (Plains of Maredo) ree-AH-nuh. (Reanne) seye-DAR. (saidar). [glossary: sah-ih-DAHR] seye-DEEN. (saidin) [glossary: sah-ih-DEEN] sall-DAY-uh. (Saldaea) [glossary: sahl-DAY-ee-ya] see-AEN. (Seaine?) Alan…
ALAN ROMANCZUK
SHE-nar.
MARIA SIMONS
SHE-nar. (Shienar) [glossary: shy-NAHR] Swan. (Siuan) [glossary: SWAHN SAHN-chay] sor-uh-LEE-uh. (Sorilea) [glossary: soh-rih-LEE-ah] terra-BONN. (Tarabon) [glossary: TAH-rah-BON] TAR-win's Gap. (Tarwin's Gap) tell-uh-RON-ree-odd. (Tel'aran'rhiod) [glossary: tel-AYE-rahn-rhee-ODD] Tower of genn-JEYE. (Ghenjei) (hard G) truh-MALL-king. (Tremalking) [glossary: treh-MAL-king] too-AH-thuh-AHN. (Tuatha'an) [glossary: too-AH-thah-AHN]
ALAN ROMANCZUK
Do you want to go over the saidar/saidin thing we talked about?
MARIA SIMONS
In the glossaries of the books, Jim has it sah-ih-DEEN and sah-ih-DAHR, but I swear, I don't think he pronounced it that way; I mean you kind of give a little hint of the i but not much: sah-ee-DEEN, sah-ee-DAHR.
ALAN ROMANCZUK
Yeah, he always seemed to be saying seye-DEEN and seye-DAHR.
SPENCER POWELL
I'm surprised at how many of those I thought I knew, but I didn't.
JENNIFER LIANG
Yeah. That's like, "Waait a second, that's not…but oh, I guess it is."
MARK
How do you pronounce the Traveling people again?
MARIA SIMONS
too-AH-thah-AHN.
VIRGINIA
There's something else with the double A there…
MARIA SIMONS
ah-tha-AHN mee-AIR. (Atha'an Miere)
VIRGINIA
Okay, great. Any others you can think of that are commonly mangled, that would have driven Jim crazy?
MARIA SIMONS
I think I've mentioned tah-EEM before, and egg-ee-AH-nin…
VIRGINIA
dee-MAN-dred? dee-MAHN-dred? DEE-man-dred?
MARIA SIMONS
Ehh...dee-MAHN-dred, I think…but I wouldn't swear dee-MAHN-dred. [glossary: DEE-man-drehd]
ALAN ROMANCZUK
Pretty straightforward.
VIRGINIA
How about all of the Forsaken? A lot of them often get mangled, or a few. GRIN-doll?
MARIA SIMONS
Grindle, is how I say it. [glossary: GREHN-dahl] And it's interesting, just looking at a thing, and I pronounce CADD-in-soar (cadin'sor) wrong. [glossary: KAH-dihn-sohr]
JENNIFER LIANG
Oh really?
MARIA SIMONS
Yeah, because it's supposed to be cah-DIN-soar. [It's not, according to the glossary.]
JENNIFER LIANG
Okay, because I say it the way you say it.
VIRGINIA
Yeah, I think… [inaudible] so that makes sense.
ALAN ROMANCZUK
Oh! ish-AH-may-el, and SAM-may-el. [glossary: ih-SHAH-may-EHL, SAHM-may-EHL] [When RJ said it, the 'may' part was more like the German 'Mai'.]
JENNIFER LIANG
Yes. Those are really common mistakes; I hear that a lot.
VIRGINIA
Ben [?] was right; we had that famous tagline from the original podcast, and we had this thing…I think, "Sammael was pretty buff!" [laughter] We used that a lot, and it sort of went away when he did, I guess.
SPENCER POWELL
Another one that I have lots of problems with—and I can't believe I didn't get it on the list—but is the GOLL-um (gholam), or the…I can't even pronounce it right now.
MARK
GO-lem?
SPENCER POWELL
Yeah, the GO-lem, that's chasing Mat.
ALAN ROMANCZUK
Yeah.
MARIA SIMONS
Gollum.
SPENCER POWELL
Gollum?
VIRGINIA
Oh, it's Gollum! [crosstalk]
MARIA SIMONS
I am not absolutely sure, but that's how I say it, so…
VIRGINIA
What about some of the other Seanchan beasts that made me think of, the grolm, then there were two of the others that…
MARIA SIMONS
ROCK-in (raken), and TOE-rock-in. (to'raken)
VIRGINIA
Yeah, and then there was another one, the um…
MARIA SIMONS
Torm…the book is right in front of me…
VIRGINIA
Oh, maybe it was the name of that…oh, Suroth's pet!
MARK
S'redit?
MARIA SIMONS
Oh yes, that thing. I can't remember… [crosstalk]
VIRGINIA
Mandra…Mandragal?…Almandragal.
ALAN ROMANCZUK
The LOW-par (lopar)?
VIRGINIA
Yeah, the lopar. Almandaragal was his name, or something like that?
MARIA SIMONS
Something like that. I would have to look it up.
ALAN ROMANCZUK
It was a LOW-par (lopar), wasn't it?
VIRGINIA
Yeah, lopar. I think there was another one that I couldn't…maybe I'm just hallucinating. [laughs]
MARIA SIMONS
Let's see…
VIRGINIA
I'm sure there's a zillion others I'll think of after you're off the air here with us…
ALAN ROMANCZUK
Oh, s'RED-dit (s'redit) is another one. Remember the elephant-like creature?
MARIA SIMONS
Corlm, C-O-R-L-M (I like that word). Torm…that's all I can find.
VIRGINIA
What about Tuon's new name as Empress?
MARIA SIMONS
for-too-OH-nah?
VIRGINIA
Fortuona, okay. I'm not sure how else you could pronounce that, but I've been wrong before, so...
MARIA SIMONS
That, I'm assuming is right; I'm pretty sure I heard Jim pronounce it that way, because that was his choice of name.
VIRGINIA
There must be something else; there seems like a million things, and that I didn't add enough to the list.
MARIA SIMONS
OH-geer…
ALAN ROMANCZUK
moe-TIE? (???)
VIRGINIA
Oh! What about—speaking of historical figures—LAH-tra…poe-SAI? Or poe-SAY? deh-KYU-meh? (Latra Posae Decume)
ALAN ROMANCZUK
Oh yeah, LA-tra (LA rhymes with laugh)…
VIRGINIA
I got the Latra, but I'm not sure about the second and third names.
MARIA SIMONS
Boy.
VIRGINIA
It's P-O-S-A-E, and then D-E-C-U-M-E.
MARIA SIMONS
po-SAY-uh deh-COO-may.
VIRGINIA
deh-COO-may, okay. [crosstalk]
MARIA SIMONS
That's totally off the top of my head. I see it (?) and think it, anyway. po-SAY-uh deh-COO-may, yeah.
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Interview: Feb 20th, 2013
AMOL Signing Report - JaimieKrycho (Paraphrased)Question
When Gawyn and Galad were defeated so handily by Demandred, I was thinking it was a throwaway of two characters. Then Lan rolls in and it put everything in perspective to show how good he was. Was that the purpose?
Brandon Sanderson
That was part of the purpose. It was a war, and someone needed to take out Demandred. Gawyn's arc is tragic, and the end of the arc is what we all know he shouldn't do, by going out by himself.
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