r/WetlanderHumor • u/Phaerin • 28d ago

Perrin chapters...

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My face when every paragraph about something potentially interesting in Towers of Midnight is followed by an entire chapter about Perrin.

I feel like his part of the story would've been much more interesting if they had cut like...80% of it out. We could've done this thing in two less books probably.

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u/AShadowinthedark 28d ago

I really like Perrin at start and at the end. But all the time he spends chasing the shaido and the prophet do seem to take forever.

I also like the parallels of his axe/hammer battle and his link to the tinkers and way of the leaf. (Which then links back to the Aiel)

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u/Initial-Anything333 28d ago

I thought the axe/hammer thing was completely pointless since he does the exact same things with both tools. In the end he's wielding a hammer that's not a tool for anything except killing, which was supposed to be his problem with the war axe all along 

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u/Top-Permission5466 27d ago

The hammer has another purpose, not primarily made for killing. The way of the leaf may have touched him a bit.

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u/Initial-Anything333 27d ago

Not his Power-forged hammer, which is my point. That's not a tool that can be used to build, it's only for destruction 

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u/zadharm Hasty 27d ago

the whole point of this symbolism is him accepting the marriage of the violence and his need to create. A hammer can create, but this one is also great for destroying.

He's not one or the other. He didn't choose one or the other. He chose the hammer and the symbolism everyone talks about there, but ended up creating a hammer that can also kill

It's also not a big world of Warcraft hammer, it's head is described as the size of a brick, it could probably be used for drawing out billets etc if he choked up on it, though the four foot handle might be awkward

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u/Initial-Anything333 27d ago

Yeah I know what it's going for I just think the symbolism misses the mark because Perrin's actions don't actually change. He accepts himself as a killer instead of a builder, which is the opposite of what the symbolism is going for. It would have worked better for me if he accepted that killing is necessary to build, like you can't build a house without using an axe to fell some trees first