a GREAT idea for a story

[Kuruharan]

Our hero and his loyal sidekick aren’t quite sure what to make of all this until a dark and terrifying beastie shows up looking for them, at which point they decide to blow town and head for the rendezvous point.

Ah, yes. But you're leaving out a very important point, they went to the Dwarves first instead of the Elves. [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

Actually, I completely agree with you. I tried to read that once, and I gave it up. It's so much longer than Tolkien and so much worse. And the other books in the series are just as bad (so I've heard, after trying to struggle through Sword I gave up on the series).