Eye of the World (1990)
| Author | Robert Jordan |
|---|---|
| Year | 1990 |
| Genre | Fantasy |
The book from 1990 opens one of the longest cycles in the genre, and the first chapters are intentionally recognizable: a quiet village, a fair, three guys, a night attack, a hasty departure with a mysterious woman. Jordan starts as an apprentice to Tolkien — and this is a conscious ramp-up, because from here his world diverges from the template. Time here moves in circles, eras repeat, current legends are a distorted retelling of the past, and magic is divided by gender: women wield it, men go mad from it, and this underpins all the politics of the world. A vast geography, dozens of peoples, customs detailed down to fabrics and bows — Jordan built a world with the persistence of a cartographer. The pace is unhurried, there are many descriptions, and this should be understood in advance. But it is from here that the modern multi-volume epic emerged as a format, and the first volume has a rarity for the cycle: compactness.
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