[Brys]

I agree with the psychology point, but for me it doesn't seem enough to write three trilogies on - if the whole series had been condensed into a single trilogy, or even a single novel, I think it could well have been one of the best fantasy novels ever. And if I'd read Donaldson at the same time I was reading Eddings etc, I'd probably have been pretty impressed. The irony is that the Covenant series, along with a great YA fiction that I can't remember it's name (surprisingly dark for a children's book - from the viewpoint of a boy with cerebral palsy who can't communicate in any way, but is actually very intelligent, though of course no one else can see it that way) it's inspiring me to write a novel, while some of my favourite authors, like Peake and Harrison, haven't.