Allusions to the real world

[Al Thor93]

In TEoTW I noticed an allusion to the Collaseum in Rome-It comes on pg.280 "And a walled place, open to the sky and big enough to have held all of Edmond's Field, surrounded by row on row on row of stone benches?"-when they are in Shadar Logoth.

I was wondering if anyone else has noticed more references to places in all of the books?

[Mashiara Sedai]

I've heard a lot of different things people claim are from our time.  Since time is a Wheel it's safe to assume RJ invisioned our world among the spokes.  WoT FAQ lists a few...

 

http://www.siliconcerebrate.com/faqs/wotfaq/3_sources/3.12_future-earth.html

 

~Mashiara

[Balefire to da face!]

Lenn is also mentioned in a portion of The Great Hunt I just read.

 

Also, there was mention of the skull of a cat with huge fangs, a sabertooth, I would imagine. That was in The Great Hunt, as well.

 

Doesn't Tanchico also have the fossilized remains of a dinosaur? Can't remember for sure....

[mb]

I recall past threads asking about this sort of thing.

 

Other pages of references can be accessed through here::

http://linuxmafia.com/jordan/3_sources/index.html

Same page linked earlier is one of them.  (The site has a number of different versions.)

 

[OptimusPrime]

I always imagined the Choeden Kal to be equivalents of the Statue of Liberty

[mb]

I always imagined the Choeden Kal to be equivalents of the Statue of Liberty

Besides being huge and human-shaped, neither Choedan Kal has much in common with the Statue of Liberty.

 

[Phariah]

well i don't know if was meant to be related but if u remember when the Aiel were marching out of the waste thru the pass on there way to Cairhein, Rand looks up to see a seaport town up in the mountains and asks Asmo if he knows the town from before the breaking. it's similar to the ruins in South America, there is a port town high in the mountains. it's name is Machu Pichu i think not 100% on the name. but it is said to have been a port city, trading center.

 

like i said i wasn't 100% sure of the name, its name is Tiahuanaco it used to be a port on a lake the lake has dropped about 100-200 feet in depth. it is considered to be created in around 1000 bc i think or older. i got Machu and Tiah confused my bad

 

 

[bloodandbloodyashes]

lol, Machu Pichu was never a port town man...it was safe haven for the Inka's or Maya's or whatever society it was, high up it the mountains. I think its only about 1000 years old or less.

[Germs]

When Rand accidentally transports himself, Loial, and Hurin to an alternate world throught a portal stone, Rand sees a streak of unnaturally straight clouds when the group is supposedly following Fain. From the description, it could be a jet trail like in our world or maybe just a sho-wing, if sho-wings leave trails like planes. So in this alternate world, jets still exist into the Third Age from the Age our real time is in. Or they moved through time as well as dimension; who knows how that works. Or it's just a sho-wing from the AoL. Or some random straight-cloud-generating apparatus. Anyway, this is pretty good evidence that our real world is featured in the Wheel, which is rather cool. I wish I knew where the actual quote is; definitely somewhere in The Great Hunt.

[OptimusPrime]

I always imagined the Choeden Kal to be equivalents of the Statue of Liberty

Besides being huge and human-shaped, neither Choedan Kal has much in common with the Statue of Liberty.

 

 

And what else was I supposedly getting at? I was saying what I thought. Nothing in there hints that Im bothered what you think about it.

[Mr Ares]

In TEoTW I noticed an allusion to the Collaseum in Rome

No, you didn't. The same basic design of the Colosseum was used in amphitheatres throughout the Roman world, and even in sports arenas today. It's unreasonable to consider every sports arena in the world to be an allusion to the same place.

[Al Thor93]

In TEoTW I noticed an allusion to the Collaseum in Rome

No, you didn't. The same basic design of the Colosseum was used in amphitheatres throughout the Roman world, and even in sports arenas today. It's unreasonable to consider every sports arena in the world to be an allusion to the same place.

What I was getting at was that due to the setting of this book. It would make the most sense to be the Colosseum. Especially since it was in a fallen city.

[WWWwombat]

In TEoTW I noticed an allusion to the Collaseum in Rome

No, you didn't. The same basic design of the Colosseum was used in amphitheatres throughout the Roman world, and even in sports arenas today. It's unreasonable to consider every sports arena in the world to be an allusion to the same place.

 

I think you need to relax.

[Mr Ares]

What I was getting at was that due to the setting of this book. It would make the most sense to be the Colosseum. Especially since it was in a fallen city.

Due to the setting of the book, several thousand years in our future, following several devastating wars and the Breaking, which changed the shape of continents, moved mountains, etc., it would make most sense for a structure that is pretty typical in design to be a particular example, when the particular example is already in a rather battered state from its centuries of existence?

 

I think you need to relax.

I don't.

[Ashaman Kovan]

Also, there was mention of the skull of a cat with huge fangs, a sabertooth, I would imagine.

 

Or just a Tiger.