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  • one of the best fantasy books ever made

  • Robert Jordan may you walk in the light and may the creator shelter you in his hands until your rebirth. I am on book seven and i have to say nobody can wright as good as you. I just wish i had the chance to talk to you before you passed on.

    The light illumine you.

  • @Kurruptification "i have to say nobody can wright as good as you" - sorry dude but this is probably the most ironic statement I've ever read...in so many ways!

  • @boru1982

    What do you mean

  • I loved the Trilogy, as did most everyone who read it.

    .

    I once wrote a fan letter to Mr Jordan, and I told him how much I loved his work, (I think he was just starting book 6), and then I said this: " I suppose people are telling you that you should finish it in the next couple of volumes, but I say to heck with that. You have actually succeeded in creating a world as great

    as Tolkien - one that is a little more sophisticated . -Take your time".

    Of course, now I am sick I said that.

  • Why is this series so less renowned? Its too long though. But I loved the 3 books I read lol.

  • Nice video!.. I often dream about cartoon where everything looks like I imagined when i was reading that!..

  • greatest epic ever written and anybody unsatisfied with his writing can go and try to compile information to keep a story line like that together. it is the best

  • atm reading it the 3rd time^^

  • I'm currently on book 10, and as a series i dont think its a masterpiece at all. The first four books were very exciting and the fifth wasn't bad either, but six onwards has been a slippery slope into blandness to be honest. The 10th book is so far proving to be the worst one yet. I'm hoping the eleventh book onwards is an improvement. Ive heard the latest one is very good

  • There's another good book out there by an independent author

    hammer print .com

  • I love the series, each character has his/her moment, the description of every little detail and the language 'blood and ashes' XD. I reeeeally hope they dont do a LOTR job for the movie, i suppose ill just have to let the wheel will, time to toss the dice.

  • "May you always find water and shade."

  • gathering storm is amazing jsut finished.

    it brings the whole series back to its excellent early days

  • gathering storm is by far my favorite used to be 6 11 3 1 5 and yeah 9 maybe

  • good stuff! (^_^)

  • Grow up and get over yourself. Coming to a youtube video about a book you don't like just to insult it is incredibly pathetic.

  • the next book is The Gathering Storm right?

  • Yeah, it just came out last week and it's awesome. :)

  • yes

  • Hey cool - saw a couple of my pieces of art in there. ;) Thanks! - Rob Christianson

  • i kinda new to the awesome wheel of time i am reading the fires of heaven:) long live the work of robert jordan

  • R.I.P mr. Robert Jordan you rock

  • Long Live Rand al'Thor!

  • i will cry when he dies... well not cry but i will be soooo sad

  • I'm speeding my way through Book 7-10, the most boring part of the series. Once I get to Book 11, I'm good. But man, I can't wait to see the conclusion of the series.

  • nah theres a few good books in there a path of daggers is pretty crappy tho

  • Great video! Liked the way it ended on such a dark tone.

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  • huge fan of the books. looking forward to reading the rest, onnly getting to the third. trouble finding them though. they are in a lot of detail. almost as much as S. King's work. but this is much better.

  • Poor author is dead though....a big shame, I read the Eye of the World and its prequel, both were so good.

  • A Memory of Light is actually going to be 3 books, the first one being Gathering Storm, the other books' names being tentative. The three books are going to be referred to as 'the last book'

  • Books one to four were really amazing in my opinion and some of my favourite books of all time, 5 and 6 were both pretty good but theeennnn we had the rest of the series.....Too many characters and soo much waffle, I dont really care about what kind of tea Elayne is haveing or how low the neckline on her dress is! I have to wade through 100 pages just to get back to the only interesting character left:Rand....Why did I bother writing all that?? lol

  • Valid points, But I am too invested in the series at this point. I have reread the first 6 books about 5 times and the last 4 about 3 times so needless to say I cant wait for the final 3.

  • Don´t you have some pics of a dragkhar

  • WoT go, make it next mmorpg and I want money for the idea.

  • Wheel of Time ----

    Das RAd der Zeit , das beste Fantasy Abneteuer das ich je gelesen habe !!!!

    RULED !!!!

  • Yo Mr. Avenger sir, do you have the complete series? & if so, where'd you buy the books? Meron ba dito sa Pinas?

  • Agreed best fantasy series of all time. Makes Feist look like a joke in comparison. I'd say better than LoTR. I think we all forget that in reality those books are fucking boring. Sorry, I said it. And don't come in here and say ASoIaF is better that's silly.

  • The only author I think is better is David Eddings

  • Disagree. ASoIaF I found boring and poorly written. So Martin loves the Second Baron's War and The Anarchy, that's wonderful. If you like it, that's cool, I hope you enjoy. Not my thing, found it boring and annoying.

  • The Wars of the Roses was Martins biggest influence.

    To say that George RR Martin, a man hailed by reviewers to be a groundbreaking storyteller and an genious wordsmith did a poor job writing is just ridiculous.. Also if we're talking ASoIaF vs WoT then saying that ASoIaF is more boring is just crazy. I can accept that there is a certain level of subjectiveness to weather or not you like a book or not but what you're saying doesn't make any sence.

  • He can say the War of the Roses was his biggest influence, but that's a lie. It has way more in common with the Second Barons War and the Anarchy if you actually know history.

    And I find ASoIaF boring. 20% of the stories seem to be books, and there is to much "he stabbed a dude, then stabbed another dude, followed by another dude he stabbed" ad infinitum for the next twenty pages.

    I find it poorly written because it's simplistic and boring. Quit taking offense.

  • First of all. What would his motive for lying about his insperation be? There is no point to it! He obviously saw to the War of the Roses as a source of insperation. If you have found another event thats more alike then well congratulations.

    I've no idea what you're talking about next. "20% of the stories seem to be books"? 100% of it is books unless you have the audiobook, but I'm pretty sure you mean something else. Can you give me a concrete example of this excessive stabbing? (continuing)

  • Like Ive said how can you find it boring when comparing it to WoT. Now for it being simplistic. Look George is prised for having a very real language with a believable dialogue. As such hes trying to keep these 20 letter words not used in everyday speech som authors seem to favor at a minimum. Not everyone talks like V.

    Also I'm not "offended", it's just that your critique doesn't make sense to me. It's like you've read another book.

  • The Wheel of Time, is the best book I ever read. Unfortunately, here in Portugal, we have only the fourth book. The fifth book has not been published, yet.

  • dammit..i wish i cud post some from malaysia to ya..rj rocks

  • thanks :P

    RJ is one of the best writers I know.

  • woooot?!

    there are 11 books in the series...

    buy em in english?

  • well, i think i'll have to buy them in english... i cant wait.

  • Wheel of time is awesome, it combines several cultures from around the world, then puts them together.

  • The Wheel of Time is the GREATEST FANTASY SERIES EVER WRITTEN!!! Nothing else even comes close. Nothing by Tolkien, Martin, Feist, Brooks, Erikson, or anyone else has ever been written that is as good as Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series.

  • I'm sorry but CrossRoads of Twilight sucked..... all it was about was women drinking team and Perrin bitching about his lost wife oh and Mat Travelled 30 miles from Ebou Dari....... YAY

  • The greatest fantasy epic ever written.

    I cant argue with that.

    Walk in the light, my friend.

  • @foamulator I agree, and I've read alot of books. Hell that's an understatement, I used to be grounded from books when I was a kid, not t.v. lol. I'm convinced that there is no greater series of books ever written.

  • @foamulator greatest fantasy epic ever written? what about The Lord of the Rings? =D

  • Anyone know where I can actually find the game WoT? It looks really interesting.

  • dont know.. but i want it

  • I got it from an uncle. :D IMO not made any more.

  • i cant wait to find out who the killer was of asmodean

  • Yeah, same here. Have a feeling it was Isam/Luc

  • with the exception of tolkien, this is by far the best fiction based series ever

  • Great job on the art! It's awesome, it makes the series better, but the guide, is just crap.:P If it was going to be an animated series, you would have to get Rand's hair right, it's like 3/4 blonde to 1/4 red.

  • Wheel of time is by far the best fiction series ever written. His charector development and his attention to detail are far better than anything I have ever read.

  • What do you think about the art in the guide? It puts me off, and is kind of insulting.. could they have at least got an artist who can draw faces?

  • :O an anime seiries would be EPIC!!

  • no movie can match the masterpiece written by R.J. Probably only an anime series could come close to it if the producer is really good.

  • I hope not the only one who is pissed that they are trying to make a movie! No Movie could ever live up to the best fiction books I have ever read!!

  • There is no way a movie could do the Wheel of Time series any justice at all. A trilogy would not even work, there are just too many characters, plot twists, and story lines for a movie. It might work if it was turned into a CGI series that was shown once a week on maybe the SCI-fi channel but it would suck as a movie or trilogy.

  • Awesome does anyone know like if theres some kind of release date

  • I really love The Wheel Of Time series... R.i.p Robert Jordan

    Greetings from Sweden

  • great video, Robert Jordan really created a masterpiece. The last book will come and the Stone still stands.

  • It really sucks that the author died before he had chance to finnish his story, "the light shine on you Robert Jordan and may you shelter in the palm of the creator's hand, the last embrace of the mother welcomes you home".

    Does anyone know if someone has steeped in to pen the finel books, I've heard about a move in the works although I'm not that bothered about that I'd much rather just have the novels finnished.

  • brandon sanderson is working on it and has already completed about 50 percent of the book check his own site.

  • man it is the greatest book ever betterthan the h.p series

  • lol@h.p. even being mentioned in relation to REAL writing.

  • my sincere thanks to everyone who've commented on my video - thanks for all the positive vibes! i hope to make a better tribute once A Memory of Light comes out...

  • have you read all the books and also the last one

  • It's funny cause I've been trying to read this series for ages...I have the first 3 novels and have only gotten to chapter 5 in Eye of the World. There's so much information in the book and it seems that it requires a lot of prior knowledge to really understand it. Does the story get really good as it progresses cause I really wanna try to read it.

  • Yes the story gets REALLY good, it is a little confusing at the begginning but you get familiar with the characters, places, history and general plotline very quickly. At least I did. The WoT is my favourite series of books ever! I highly encourage you to keep reading.

  • The first half of the first book is kinda slow and perhaps a little boring, but it sets such a solid chafracter base for all the other books that you never stop identifying with them. If you can get throught that period you will never want to put any of the books down :)

  • Universal just bought the rights for The Wheel of time, apparently there going to make a movie. Great video mate.

  • Really awesome video!!!!

  • when will they make films?! these books are so great!!

  • I think it's to great to make movies of it.

    But I've heard they said the same thing about the Lord of the Rings,so there's still hope. ;-)

  • If you check dragonmount paramount or universal or somethin lik that just announced that they own the movie rights to the movie, let's hope they get it out in a few years

  • I wanna ask you guys.....Is there any dragons in these books? And I mean like real dragons....not Luz terrin telamon not Rand Al'thor....I'm talkin' about the creature that people call a dragon....I wanna know cuz' I'm still on the first book and I don't know...

  • Well, later in the books there will be some dragon-like creatures, but they aren't called dragon. I'm reading the books in Dutch, so I can't really use names, because many names have been translated differently.

  • There are no Dragons. There are giant lizzards that a certain people do ride. (But I won't tell you who they are to spoil it =P) Wheel of Time is different from all other fanasty. EVen the Trollocs themselfs were made of science. its still a fantasy but its much more believeable than most. But there are Dragons thus.. far I have read all 11 books and New Spring several times.

  • woo go WoT!looove the set.. Mat has to be my fav ...cant w8 for no.12!!

  • They better make a movie for eye of the world...but it might be years

  • Yeah! I thought about that to0! 0mg... =O

  • Mat Cauthon is the best!

  • Carai an Caldazar! Carai al Ellisande! Al Ellisande!

  • For the honor of the Red Eagle. For the honor of their Rose of the sun. The Rose of the sun. Excellent, are you a fan of Matt?

  • Ya.  Mat rocks.

  • cool music!cool Robert Jordan!

  • you know whats funny you can never point out just one singel of the books and call it the best

  • rip.

  • Awesome video 5 stars :)

    RiP Robert Jordan, may you always find water and shade.

    Thank you for writing the best collection of words ever written you were and still are a Legend!

  • Life is a dream which every man must wake, Robert jordan has awoken that dream and making where he is a better place by just being there.

  • I hope the last book is good.

  • I know, the author guy said if he can he is going to stuff it all into one book, I only hope he doesnt condense it so far that it just sucks and leaves a bunch of things unresolved

  • And I can't believe Robert Jordan died before finishing his awesome series, DAMN!

  • Amen

  • This is the first I have heard of Robert Jordan's death.  The genre of fantasy has lost a grand champion for sure. May he ever find water and shade.

  • i didnt really like to read till i was hooked on these books

    r.i.p Robert Jordan

  • Robert Jordan was my favorite auther and I'll never replace him.

    Heroes get remembered, And Legends never die.

    Robert Jordan will live on forever as he has touched so many lives.

  • *sniff* that was a great video.... RIP Robert Jordan.. you were my favorite author too..

  • may he rest in peace and be sheltered in the light........ he was my favorite author, and no one can ever replace him

  • Rest in peace Robert...

  • He was such a brilliant persion... and my favorite writer after Tolkien... Rest peacefully Robert!

    May you shelter in the palm of the creator!

  • He was the finest of writers. He made my life brighter and happier. I owe you my family Robert. If it weren't for Robert I whould never have met my wife.

  • hell yea! this guy was the greatest

  • Coming out fall 2009 A Memory Of Light! It sucks that he died, but at least it is going to be finished. I would go insane if it was left unfinished after Knife Of Dreams!!! I've read the first 11 books at least 4 times in the last three years and I cannot wait for the last book to come out.

  • The final book will be written by Brandon Sanderson

  • That was seriously Kool but i really cant believe hes dead, i just heard about it from this....im an the 10th book.....Just to put this out, he wrote the best books i have ever read and i read about 500 pages a week....much better than JRR tolken or J K rolling

  • I couldn't believe it when I heard that my favorite author had died.

    I became so entranced by the series that I read all 11 books in a month and a half, totaling about 9,500 pages. When I was 14 years old.

  • Years of waiting for his nextsh the journey with us book to come out and RJ can't even finish the journey with us. He has a distinct writing style. The eleventh book lost that flavor. I hope they do justice to his memory with the last book

  • From what I've read from Robert Jordan's forum he made an extensive series of notes and audio tapes about the 12th book. He has shared all of it with his close family and editor at Tor Books, "in case the worst happens." According to Robert Jordan's own words. The choice that remains is who will write the last book. Either his family or one of the editors and writers for Tor Books along with his family.

  • My bad guys, I just saw the news myself. I haven't been able to catch up on things due to working a lot the last half year, wow. My bad. I am just shocked.

  • Robert Jordan is not dead guys. He's writing the 12th book of The Wheel of Time. Dunno what made you all think he was :S

  • Uh...he died September 16th due to complications from Amyliodsis (spelling anyone?), a disease that affects only 8 out of 1 million people.

  • This is an awesome tribute to Robert Jordan. May his soul live on in the pages of his world.

  • R.I.P Robert Jordan.

    We always remember you as a great writter.

  • cheers to RJ

    RIP

  • Robert Jordan you will always be my hero and my inspiration, words can not express my admiration for your brilliance and your courage. You will never be forgotten and history will not let you slip away. The great ones do not fade. Your world is eternal.

  • i cant believe his dead... he's so cool... his death is a great lost... sad...sad...sad...

  • Man, I can't believe he's gone! This is going to make me feel all sad now for a while. He was one of the best Fantasy writers out there for me and for a great many others.I Hope the 12th book won't be screwed up. R.I.P RJ.

  • i feel fully the same... r.i.p Robert Jordan

  • R.i.P Robert Jordan. You will be greatly missed

  • What was, what will be, and what is has already fallen under the shadow without him. His work may be finished by others, but no one can replace Jordan. May his name be remembered forever!

  • r.i.p robert jordan. its soo sad

  • What a great tribute! Thank you!

  • We at P'Noy Ta'Veren Ma'Vron, the Philippines' Wheel of Time fan club would like to extend our condolences to the family and friends of James Oliver Rigney, Jr., known to most of us as Robert Jordan.

    We also join the rest of the world in celebrating his work. We also look forward to his army of writers finishing the epic that has hooked and bound all of us fans from around the world.

    God speed, old friend. Thanks for the gift of wonder!

    'Til we meet again.

  • Lets all hope his wife finishes his last book the way he wanted it to...Man I wish he would have gotten done witting the book and also he was going to come out with a kickass series of books called Infinity of Heaven. RIP RJ

  • Continue:

    God....Mr. Jordan spun a good tale for a ton of years...hope that he rest in peace and beyond suffering.

  • Just woke upped and read the Wheel of Time author has passed on.Bummer!Hmmm..does it mean Brian and Anderson will beg Mr. Robert Jordan's publishers the rights to fuck up his works..by replacing it with next book. Schlmeeal of Slime?Why not....seems everytime a great person dies...their blood sucking family or no talent book hacker's takes over and ruins the persons legacies?Does bleeding the CASH-COW comes to mind.

  • Rest in peace, Robert Jordan. You will be missed.

  • an great movie, its a good tribute to the best book series there is...

  • That was so amazing! Wheel of Time is my 2nd favorite book series, and this was such a beautiful tribute to it! I can hardly wait to read A Memory of Light! I am completely in awe of this! I loved it! Thank you!

  • what is your first?

  • Could anyone tell me who that person at 00:46 is?

    I can't think of anyone who would look like that.

    So far I'm in book 5, so maybe he (she?) isn't introduced yet, but if he is, who is it?

    Also, cool vid

  • i have a feeling tealmon wil goo cucko for coco puffs right at the last battle and break the world.......again

  • That was awsome :)

    I can't wait till the last book comes out,

    if it hasnt already

  • estimated release date is either 09 or 11 i think...

    he has a terminal diesease, so thats slowing him down a bit.... =(

  • holy

    fucking

    shit.

  • The Wheel Of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend.

  • Ware do u get the WoT game?

  • great!

  • Very nice series overall. And Randland is the most amusing nickname for a fantasy world ever!

  • By reading several pro and post logs, its fairly clear that the Light wins. The 5th age has clearly positive memories of Rand.

    I do wish that the poster of this had gained permission and given credit to the artists behind these works. Most are copywrited, and they are good folk deserving of credit.

  • heather rocks that is a very true point...but i cant wait for the freaking book..and its suppsed to be pretty big (1500 to 2000) pages...freaking sweet

  • And I have a question for anyone who thinks they have an idea:

    So they next book's title is "A Memory of Light" right? Yes, well if the light is just a MEMORY does that mean that the Shadow will win the fight and Rand lost?

  • im pretty sure that in every story the hero always win. Plus it would be pretty crappy if Rand lost

  • meh. 'course the hero will win, its how the hero does it which makes it fun to read

  • yep thats true.

  • Or that the side of the Light will be helped at the crucial moment by something powerful from the past ages, maybe?

  • Are those clips from the WoT game?

  • i agree brett, i love wot but i took a long break before deciding to pick it up again and start book 10. more than 25% through and RJ hasn't actually advanced the story at all yet. i'm certainly enjoying it but mainly for nostalgic reasons.

  • I love WOT series and freaking out we must wait over 12 months. If ya like WOT you must read George RR Martins Fire and Ice series. I think it is far superior to WOT. Am sick of scenes like Elayne in the bath, with the size of the soap, the smell of it, the color, how it was made, here it was made, who made it, how they felt when they made it, how it feels, and excruciating detail. You can skip 3 paragraphs and STILL be learning its atomic weight, molecular structure ad nauseum. Too much RJ!

  • Jordan is the best fantasy writer :) Tolkien is so boring :/ maby he popularised the epic fantasy, but I don't like LOTR characters. Jordan's characters are so realistic and full of suprises. If you understand polish language try to read Maja Lidia Kossakowska's books...she writes the best polish fantasy :D

  • true that man LOTR is only more popular because they got movies. But i dont know how they will make movies out of WoT because its long

  • i think the books a re brilliant though im only on Crown of Swords

    I like what i've read so far

  • Wheels of time FTW, best books ever written!

  • What's the name of this track? I'm thinking of buying the soundtrack.

  • This series is my 2nd favorite. Rand rules but isn't in the books enough. Steven Erikson is the greatest in 2007 though.

  • WOT can not be beaten

  • YEs mate, it can. Read George RR Martins Fire and Ice series. If WOT rates as 9 outta 10, then The Game of Thrones (Book 1) is a 10+

  • Nice vid mate. Looking forward to the new book?

  • Lord of the Rings, simply because I read it first and Lord of the Rings really began the epic fantasy genre

  • lord of the rings is the wrost fantasy book out there and i wish i never read it and what do you mean it began the fantasy genre orcs goblins and elves were inventted thousands of years earlier in Norse mythology

  • if you had actually read what I said, I said TOlkien created teh Epic fantasy genre, I know that he didn't come up with orcs, elves, and the lots.

    And I know that Tolkien is not a writer in truth, but a linguist.

    He's not that great a writer, but he was a great story teller.

  • he was a good story teller i will give you that....

  • LOTR is the best fantasy book you absolute twonk, with WOT a close second. I'm sure you could write better the Tolkien, and Toliken popularised the epic fantasy genre by drawing on common themes in Norse and Germanic mythology, you nescient, rebarbative twat.

  • way to be an ignorant fuck head. anyway, the writing, theme, characters, pacing, all of these things are done FAR better by Jordan than by Tolkien, just because he was the first in no way makes him the best, you 'Twat'

  • I enjoyed LOTR but I found compared to later novels I've read thaat it's lacking in character development. They don't feel 3D enough. I recommend the works of James Clemens, Sara Douglass, James Barclay and Juliet McKenna for good, modern writers.