Robert Jordan interview (March, 2003) - Fast Forward - Book 10 - Part I
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- Robert Jordan interview - host: Tom Schaad
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Dont worry, once someone finds the Horn of Valere, we will see him again.
timtehuber he is definitely a hero of the horn.
I will be the hero of the horn or die trying
Damn, my heart felt pain and joy for Robert...
Please Mat, blow that horn already 📯
"The Grave is no bar to my call"
Damn. That was beautiful.
Fun fact: Robert went home and wrote 10 pages that described the interviewer's red tie on his bosom
Link.?
@@sunfire85 Its' a joke about how he can spent 1 chapter on describing something.
It's incredible looking at this man knowing he created the entire world I'm in love with.
check out www.wotmod.org there is a game based on the series. its for free
Aye, RJ is seriously my hero!
NEVER judge a book by its' cover..... ever... Or MATT will have a talking to you....
You took the words out of my mouth! I'd much more enjoy a conversation with you than wasting my time on a current movie or fantasy book
I keep hearing about The Wheel of Time and the amount of love I see coming from fans I know I'm going to have to get started
Maybe he stole the ideas?
“Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.”
"You cannot live through something without it affecting what you do. I would have to be inhuman to be able to filter out what I lived through"
So true, he was a wise man. God bless Robert Jordan!
Thank God for this man. He gave me a magical childhood.
Happy Birthday, Mr Jordan. Would have been 68 today. #RIP
A proud veteran!!
Rip
heres my advice. Firstly read and write a lot. Seriously, read everything you can get your hands on in all fields. Secondly, dont worry about clichés while youre writing the first draft, if you do, it will hold you back and youll never get anything thing done. Weeding out clichés is what revision is for. Thirdly, as some have already said, let your world open itself up to you. Think of writing as an undiscovered country and you are the explorer, jotting things down as you see them.
Really late but thanks for the tips!
I dont care about writing though
Thanks for the advice!
Considering that this comment is from 11 years ago I will forgive that these days this is the most cliche advice known to man 😂
@@adoniscreed4031 The most cliche people will make the most cliche respsones.
I'm calling it now. The view count will be in the millions after the series comes out on Amazon video.
100%
Lets hope
sad that it aged badly too bad in 2022 identity politic has priority over telling great stories
@@Sam-kh5pb I must agree. That show was a total bastardization all for the sake of polarizing politics and lazy cash grabs.
It's hard to believe a reserved southern gentleman like Robert Jordan was a helicopter gunner in vietnam.
Fact, and then some...
You can tell from the way he tends to highlight the aftermath of battle scenes more than he focuses on cheap heroics
2:20 I LOVE this. I’m an aspiring author myself and this is exactly how I write. I have my characters, the setting the story takes place in, the general story start to finish, and major milestones and important developments or struggles across the way throughout the middle. But the chapter to chapter basis between the big moments I just write on the fly. They just write themselves as they flow out of me, and I’ve always wondered if something was wrong with me for not painstakingly obsessing over every roadmapped detail between A and B. To hear that the great Jordan writes similarly to myself is incredible
Get that first draft out no matter how messed up it is.
Shame Robert Jordan never got to see his books completed.
The Phantom of the Paradise if he was still alive I don't think it would be finished.
If he hadn't died he would still be churning out his monotonous going nowhere story, full of meaningless characters that add nothing to the story line
@@lisazack6459 Wow, you must be fun at parties huh?
@@FingerFlickenBoy Put to you this way I know a lot more about sex than that 58 year old virgin Robert Jordan knew; he knew nothing about women, nothing. You can tell that by his idiotic female characters, fuck knows what they were supposed to be.
lisa zack I just started Wheel of Time. Why so angry?
Thankful to have his books to read. Such a good story with a great wonderful world to explore. Thank you for what you left behind, Robert.
I just picked up these books last year and haven’t put them down since. It’s a great series and I’m looking forward to finishing them. Thank you Robert Jordan.
I wish Martin would follow the same "don't have time for anything else except for writing" frame of mind as Jordan. Jordan wrote 12 books in the same time it took Martin to write half (I'm assuming TWOW is finished), and still had time to write the outline for the last three.
Narrator: The Winds of Winter was in fact, not finished ... still
This is one of my favorite series, it's sad that he died
at least it was completed well.
I've just started The Eye of the World where Rand and his frinds are about to leave Two Rivers with Moraine and Lan. So far it is one of the most amazing reads I have ever had. This is what fantasy fiction should be - Robert Jordan is a genius and he is now reading the whole 14 books plus all the prequels to God! RIP to one of my fav writers of all time!
Simon Edwards And 5 years later? What's it like Taishar?
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"It meant something, that symbol."
Did you finish the series?
The Eye of the World was the book that opened up what true fantasy writing is to me. Forever grateful for Jordan.
Same here. The Wheel of Time is my all time favorite book saga of all time, Right there with Lord of The Rings.
same for me, I decided to give in 2023 and it's amazing I'm excited for the others, although there's just so many characters it'll be hard to keep track of
@@galaxydeathskrill5607 You still reading wheel of time ? I decided to finish it this year,im at book 9 and you sir ? :)
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xanat0s light strike them
This comment made me laugh very hard
Blood and bloody ashes!
he didnt like the spoiler at 5:48 'evil is not going to win the final victory.' would be funny though, years and 14 books and Rand fails and says welp I tried, the dark one wins and says I told u so. Everyone reading is like really this is how it ends?
So he did it in a very organic way. Letting the story live and Breath.
you gotta understand when you have alot of main and major characters like his books do (which is good, sick of linear books, WOT is a spider web plot), you are gunna have some dead spots in the storyline, but its what happens in these quiet times that effects the story more them some guts n glory fight scene, action doesn't always have to be the key part in a book/movie, as i said i love going back through and finding things that cause effects in the latter books! honestly read them yourself!!!!
We all must awake from the dream
There are no beginnings or endings the wheel just keeps turning spitting us out into the pattern in this age he was Robert in another he was Rand
He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone.
AndЯew I would say he was Loial in another time.
We miss you Jim ♥️
Yes there is a lot of filling between major events but that is one of things that make this a great series. You are looking in at a fully developed world watching the people live and grow during the end of their world. Read them again and get ready for the FINAL BATTLE
I was truely saddened to hear he had past back when he did! I had been a fan for a few years before! Couldn't wait to read the next book in the series!
At the time I’m posting this comment, 5/21/2021 this video has 90k views and 155 comments. This video is about to get FLOODED with views once the Amazon show starts airing.
HELLO FUTURE FAN!
What an amazing man…. A true legend.
I read the first book in '98 when I was an impressionable young junior in highschool. Since then like many others there hasn't been a time when I wasn't rereading them. I've read this story so much I could probably recite the story well enough to do Thom Merrilin proud😂. When RJ died I, like many others was devastated. I'm just thankful that Harriet decided on Brandon Sanderson. He did a fine job finishing the series. I'm a bit nervous about the upcoming Amazon series, as I know they will need to adapt the story for TV. I hope they change as little as possible.
Someone's watching Daniel 🌃
Oh God no, they changed as much as possible.
"Since you're last time you've written 4 books which your fan base lovingly refers to as 'The Slog' , y u do dis?"
You can't live through something without it affecting what you. Wise words.
He was very good and the series will sit on the top of my bookshelves for many yrs to come.
Malazan books are still my favorite tho
Having something to tell to everyone. Then thinking how to tell it. That is the essence.
I wish he did more public interviews (like Martin) before he died, he seems like a really nice guy.
I personally enjoyed all of the books finished by Robert Jordan. Aside from the Elayne winning her own crown part I found all of the books interesting and worth reading. It’s all the small events that build the world and make Rands fight so important. After getting attached to not only the characters but the world itself I would have been devastated had it been destroyed. Brandon Sanderson did a great job finishing the series imo. I’m glad the world didn’t just die with Jordan’s death.
poor rj. he was like 55 back then and he couldn't walk properly
46 and I can't walk properly. The physical pain is hell.
Anyone surviving in such conditions deserves a medal.
@@ChristmasLore i wish you luck
This man gave me the best fantasy series of all time...Taishar RJ
Love this so so much
Looks a lot like an older, larger Tom hanks with a beard! One of my fave authors growing up, RIP legend.
best books
Supreme series written by a true legend
Read the first 6 book's in hard copy. Then i found I didn't have the time to read because I was doing a lot of travelling. Bought the audiobook's and they are fantastic
Lan in memory of light , who are you? I'm just a man, then out duels a forsaken blademaster .
Thank you R.J. ... RIP
Tom Hanks could easily play as Mr. Jordan if there's ever a film about him.
robert jordan is the "creator" lol
He was my great uncle
Slimer SSO lover no he wasn't. Seriously,? My grandfather was named Chester Cornett he was semi famous Craftsman but he was half insane.
I hope you have read these books. Important pieces of literature. Even if they are not recognized as such yet.
What are your thoughts on the series?
not quit, i was stating that personally they get better after book 2! Just sick of ppl who listen to critics and blogs instead of actually reading a book and letting the characters develop in their own mind
Not the easiest series to read, but worth it!
Is very easy to read very enjoyable and very easy
A warning to readers who haven't finished the series: Don't read the comments for this video if you don't want spoilers.
Thank ya !!!
jordan said he allowed the universe to tell the story through him...try to find a story the universe wants to tell through you...i dunno maybe that can be possible...i have a story to tell but its not fantasy and i dont want to tell it now and i'm not a writer, maybe i'll tell it in the future...
I wish I could have just 15 minutes to talk with robert.
“…four large steps towards that final scene…” 👀
Hmm...your thoughts on the Amazon adaption? The prophecies are being fulfilled.
Book 11, his last was great though. I just finished it
I love how RJ looks like a cool JRR Tolkien/ George rr Martin dude while Brandon Sanderson looks like a computer nerd who gaps to hentai 4 times a day.
Yeah... Brandon is just like us, a great fan of fantasy
This video was uploaded ten years ago!
R.I.P. :(
I always wondered what they would call him in interviews, since Robert Jordan isn't his real name but a Pen name
Robert Jordan was so brilliant.
brilliant. at what? his story telling sucks
@@lisazack6459 whats your fucking problem? WoT is one of the greatest works in epic fantasy whether you accept it or not
@@lisazack6459 170 IQ, 11 awesome books, compared to your 90 IQ and 0 books written. How bout them apples?
you know, the man in black looks exactly the same two years ago in another video with Robert Jordan :P so rare
Which are the "four major events" that he's talking about?
Robert Jordan looks like Tam?
Nah
I don't know why but that's not what I expected him to look like!
Robert Jordan was never lazy.. lol
Robert Jordan is so intelligent. Just listening to him you can tell that he is intelligent.
Is the Wheel of Time a good fantasy to read? I want to start reading a new Fantasy series. I have read almost all of Tolkien, All of Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, and a dragon book. I think it was Eragon. And some other stand alone Fantasy novels.
I just want to know if The Wheel of Time is great for a Fantasy fiction fan like me
I likes what he says..if you don't like it, write your own story!
He is Tom Hanks with beard, god damn it!
2003? The quality of the video is from 1983
For me, WoT ties with Tolkien's LotRs. Legendary!
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"September in 2000............................1" omg
Now we have Ben Carson in the world doing this with every sentence lol.
He gave me Lan to look up to
@ allendaniel89: lol...
@warrioroftheworld01: keep reading. it only gets better.
LOIAL!!! Rest in Peace Tree Brother!!
@Jay Urbanik Why would you say such a thing? To any reader that hasn't finished the series: Keep reading. The comment I'm responding to doesn't give you a good feel for the ending. I'm not saying Loial does or doesn't die, just read the series for yourself.
commbir wow you commenting this makes it so much worse 😂
@foamulator yes worth it :)
He looks older here in 2003 then in 2005:S
2:12 wow there were FOUR major events in CoT??? That's news to me I counted ONE at the very end and that's it lol
you're wrong actually, you need to read the whole series, the books get way better 1st 2 books are just the start up, alot of the books get wayyy more action throughout them and its not a never ending story, you gotta understand character building and such 1st 2 books are introducing alot of characters, some who are major players yet you don't even know it yet hell everytime i finish the series i read it again and notice a few more ppl who were in the 1st 4 books as side characters and now mains
The Creator himself
Wow I suppose you are right!!!
Boa tarde, vim aqui dizer que só o amor de Deus pode preencher nosso vazio. Só falem com Ele
Rip
4:25 He might have just stalled, but it almost sounds like the interviewer can't remember what year 9/11 happened LOL
Sucklessguitarvids "knock knock"
"who's there?"
"Nine Eleven"
"Nine Eleven who?"
"YOU SAID YOU'D NEVER FORGET!"
So soon after, evoking it was still very emotional for most people.
Still fresh.
I can't really tell you how to have your world open up to you becuase...well I don't really know. Its different for every body. For some it comes at the snap of their fingers, for others its like playing with legos, they must let it build over time with much trial and error (I myself fall into the latter catogory). Robert Jorden himself said that the WOT built itself over a period of many years.
Theres nothing absolute about writing, Go with what works for you. And you're welcome.
no man that would entail that someone is high
he is the creator and his champion is rand al'thor the dragon reborn
Wow this is really old.
14 years
😅 My Data reached Some kind of limit .......
Tai’shar Robert Jordan
Four large steps forward. Hmm. Medium steps.
Dose any one else think he looks like pen jellet from pen and teller and vice versa
The best epic novelist of all time. George Martin is to him as Pee Wee Herman is to Marlon Brando.
Brandon did a good job but not as RJ would have done. Respect to both.
Bendellin
does this is my true power ring a bell to the wife of the deceased a spirit spoke me i was too scared to answer but i wonder
it led me to this book
He looks like Tom Hanks
+ThreatFromAbovee no he doesnt.
He looks like a weirdo and sounds like one; which is strange since his books were totally boring
lisa zack you just are not mature enough to handle it
'not mature enough to handle it' Is that a fact well in my opinion Jordan is the weakest author of this kind of genre I have ever read. Jordan has a variation of “feminism” which is actually more damaging than the normal pseudo-feminism in fantasy, the kind that says a princess wearing a gown is suffering as much as someone being beaten or raped. Jordan includes female characters in prominent roles and to many people this then makes them a strong feminist; unfortunately with Jordan they frequently also get into situations where they are half-naked. Egwene; have you ever counted how many times she was spanked after she was captured in the white tower’ who exactly was Jordan catering for here? Or what about Faile and Alliandre who are beaten and made to walk naked through the snow for hours because of the sadistic Sevanna; maybe he should have tried walking naked through a snow storm to see if such thing is at all plausible; oh and lets not forget about Aviendha again naked through the snow, yeah really?. More examples quote "Only Alliandre was there, lying face down on her blankets in her collar with a damp cloth dipped in an herbal infusion over her bruised bottom.If there is one thing Jordan likes more than attractive women being spanked on their bare arses, its attractive women learning to love such abusive treatment. The word for this is: cre-e-epy.
Jordans dismaying fixation on peoples bottoms and legs and what is worn thereon and there over is epic, you lose count of the number of times a woman rides a horse wearing a skirt, and either a) not caring about how much leg they're exposing or b) utterly mortified about same. (If female characters arent on horseback, then they are anxiously/worriedly/nervously smoothing their skirts. The two emotional states most prevalent in the series are humiliation and anxiety and everyone, men included, in this series has trouble sitting down at some point. Paddled, strapped, slippered (I don’t know if I’ve ever heard that used as a verb before, but it computes), pinched or beaten with the Power, or just plain old-fashioned smacked on the “bottom” … everyone, or pretty damn near, the Dragon Reborn or Amyrlin Seat or groom or scullery maid, it doesn’t matter - someone is bound to come along who will give you a smack (or twenty) on the bum.
You would struggle to think of another series of books - outside of the supermarket romance section possibly - in which women are so maddeningly misrepresented. The amount of time spent brushing hair, arranging clothing (real and imagined), gossiping, glaring really hard, mooning over some future husband and blushing at the merest whiff of sexual impropriety would be tiresome in a book about boarding-school 'gals' having pillow-fights and getting up to high-jinks in the rec. In a series purportedly about the epic battle against unimaginable evil; his fans can forget about the Hugo Awards because eventually he overload’s the series with so much of this kind of pointless text that all he creates in the end is a supernatural ‘mills and boon’.
I think this series could have been fit into 8 or 9 volumes if the fat was trimmed.
More like three.
First of all I would never "trim" anything from these books. What you want to trim is what hooks people into this series. His attention to the details is amazing.
@@djinn.b9492 Jordan has a creepy attention to the detail that's for sure; he has a variation of “feminism” which is actually more damaging than the normal pseudo-feminism in fantasy, the kind that says a princess wearing a gown is suffering as much as someone being beaten or raped. Jordan includes female characters in prominent roles and to many people this then makes them a strong feminist; unfortunately with Jordan they frequently also get into situations where they are half-naked. Egwene; have you ever counted how many times she was spanked after she was captured in the white tower’ who exactly was Jordan catering for here? Or what about Faile and Alliandre who are beaten and made to walk naked through the snow for hours because of the sadistic Sevanna; maybe he should have tried walking naked through a snowstorm to see if such thing is at all plausible; oh and lets not forget about Aviendha again naked through the snow, yeah really?. More examples ;Only Alliandre was there, lying face down on her blankets in her collar with a damp cloth dipped in an herbal infusion over her bruised bottom.If there is one thing Jordan likes more than attractive women being spanked on their bare arses, its attractive women learning to love such abusive treatment. The word for this is: cre-e-epy.
Jordans dismaying fixation on peoples bottoms and legs and what is worn thereon and there over is epic, you lose count of the number of times a woman rides a horse wearing a skirt, and either a) not caring about how much leg they're exposing or b) utterly mortified about same. (If female characters aren't on horseback, then they are anxiously/worriedly/nervously smoothing their skirts. The two emotional states most prevalent in the series are humiliation and anxiety and everyone, men included, in this series has trouble sitting down at some point. Paddled, strapped, slippered (I don’t know if I’ve ever heard that used as a verb before, but it computes), pinched or beaten with the Power, or just plain old-fashioned smacked on the “bottom” … everyone, or pretty damn near, the Dragon Reborn or Amyrlin Seat or groom or scullery maid, it doesn’t matter - someone is bound to come along who will give you a smack (or twenty) on the bum. The detail interest? fuckin weirdo
@@Insolation1 Someone's triggered. Haven't had your bottom pinched lately much I see.
@@freespeechordeath7826 The brutality of George R Martin is what you would expect in a Fantasy world based on an examination of medieval European and Asian history. George R Martin books give the impression of an author who has taken time and researched that kind of history, whereas with Jordan you get the feeling that his history lessons come from Disney world. Visually they create different worlds Jordan's world is much safer the main characters never die, you know they will always be safe; Martin’s world is rather uncomfortable place to exist in, death constantly stalks you. Search these two artists, ‘Thomas Kinkade paintings’ and you will find Jordan’s world, for Martin search ‘Goya black paintings’.
Just in case you didnt know, that guy was bullshitting lol none of what he said happens =P
chuck norris's brother
One big problem with robert jordan: he says that evil is not going to win the final battle. Why does fantasy always have to be good vs evil?
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What should it be about then? The power struggle between the light and the dark is always part of these stories. I think it's more about what is right and what is wrong, but most importantly how the individual characters decide those things for themselves.
There are books where the protagonist struggles with morality. I don't kjow off the top of my head. But there is more to it. Political philosophy, codes of honour and morality, traditions, and just sheer world building.
If you read fantasy solely for the good vs evil... you are skimming the top 1%...
Most stories are moral arguments, fantasy just increases the contrast between good and evil. Sometimes archetypal evil is pretty interesting, like lord foul in the covenant books, but i prefer a more grounded evil that is based on human passion and belief.
Book 10 was absolute garbage. Chapter summaries on tarvalon.net are the way to go. But the series itself is amazing.
books 1-6 awesome. then its downhill up to 11.
After his death its gone uphill again towards awesomeness.
+tilemacro totally agree. Brandon Sanderson lifted the fog that had formed around the the latest books from RJ.
+mazrimalthor I agreee
11 was great, and I still think the whole series was great.
Blood and Ashes You cant believe that books 7-8-9-10 can compare with the rest of the series... Maybe 100 out of the 700-800 pages resembled something of the early books. The rest was just fillers.
I'm only through book 9, but 8 was terrible probably shouldnt have been written, but 7 to me was a fulfiling book mat really goes into his own I enjoyed it.