Back in Cornwall, Tristram isn’t doing so well himself. While he talked a good game, Tristram’s joust with Marhaus has left him bleeding from several substantial wounds, including a nasty spear-wound in his side that Marhaus opened up the fight … Continue reading →
Sir Marhaus sees Tristram coming at him, and steps back. “Hey there, kid, you’re Melodias’s son Tristram, right? You’re plainly very brave, which is a shame, since I’m a remarkably badass knight. I mean, I’ve fought plenty in my … Continue reading →
Sir Tristram goes to his father and asks for permission to fight Marhaus. “You know he’s a Knight of the Round Table, and one of the best fighters in this novel, right?” asks Meliodas. “Yeah, whatever. I think I can … Continue reading →
Young Tristram leaves Liones and Cornwall at this point, and goes to France, with his tutor Gouvernail. In France he learns how to speak French and how to play the harp. Tristram is the best harpist of his generation, you … Continue reading →
So there they are: Elizabeth dead, the midwife holding Baby Tristram, the barons all around them. Will Baby Tristram make it? Yes. Elizabeth’s legacy is so great, and her death scene last chapter so touching, that it inspires the midwife … Continue reading →
The eighth book of Le Morte D’Arthur! The story of Sir Tristram! This is going to be awesome, right? Right, you guys? The story of Sir Tristram starts off more similarly to the story of Ben Linus than I was … Continue reading →
AND THE REST: APPENDICES C TO F Then there’s a set of family trees, showing how Frodo, Bilbo, Merry, and Pippin were all (distantly) related, and a Shire calendar. A pronunciation guide for transliterating phonemes into runes appears, along with … Continue reading →
APPENDIX B Appendix B is an annotated timeline, essentially, recapping all of Appendix A and putting the various events in order with one another. We learn that Sauron crafted the Rings of Power in the middle of the Second Age, … Continue reading →
THE BACKSTORY OF THE HOBBIT AND SOME OTHER BITS Thrain II, Thorin’s father, survived the Battle and he had a Ring of Power, you remember. His Ring was the last of the seven dwarf-rings that Sauron didn’t have and that … Continue reading →
THE BATTLE OF AZANULBIZAR Thrain does, however, still have his father’s Rolodex. He sends messengers north to the Gray Mountains, east to the Iron Hills, west to the Blue Mountains, out to the other six Dwarf-kings and their nations, telling … Continue reading →
