I'm re-reading the 5th book of the Wheel of Time series. Robert Jordan is an incredible author who has created such a multi-level, rich world that he sets his stories in. In the 5th book, the Fires of Heaven, Jordan provides quite a few foreshadowing, and it is exciting for me to be able to look back and see them, because I've read the whole series already.
Two questions come to mind...is it real foreshadowing, or am I just seeing it as foreshadowing because I've read the series before? And...how the heck does Jordan keep all of this straight. I wonder if he goes back and looks at the story and uses part of it in the present book, or did he have a huge master plan that he knows about, and putting the early stuff in purposefully, he then brings it out at the right time?
Well since he has passed away and I don't have a chance to ask him I don't think that I will ever know for sure. But I can guess. At the end of his life when he realized that he that might not live, he told his wife and his cousin the rest of the story (and I think that they recorded it, or took notes). So at least they (and now Brandon Sanderson) know the master-ending. I don't know which would be harder...to make sure that all of the bits make it into the story, or to make sure that all the loose ends get tied off? Either way it is very interesting to see the bits as they are introduced or woven into the story.
Which also brings me to the end of the series. Sanderson was hired to write the last book, which has been stretched into 3 books. Frankly, at the time I couldn't see how he would end it. It seemed like there was just too much stuff, to many bit-ends to be tied off. Through the end of the first book there was still a lot of ends left. Some stuff was starting to be tied off, but not much. It wasn't until I had read the 2nd book until I started seeing a lot of the ends being resolved. I can actually now see an end to the series. It has made me even more excited to see how it finally all ends. Hurry up Sanderson!!!
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