Lord Foul's Bane is the first book in The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever trilogy written by Stephen R. Donaldson, and published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston Publishing on July 12, 1978. It's followed by The Illearth War, also published in 1978. The novel tells the story of Thomas Covenant, a bitter outcast leper who is transported to the Land where the task of saving the world against Lord Foul is placed on his head. But Covenant refuses to believe any of it to be real, and takes the title of Unbeliever to hold on to his identity.
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| - Lord Foul's Bane is the first book in The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever trilogy written by Stephen R. Donaldson, and published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston Publishing on July 12, 1978. It's followed by The Illearth War, also published in 1978. The novel tells the story of Thomas Covenant, a bitter outcast leper who is transported to the Land where the task of saving the world against Lord Foul is placed on his head. But Covenant refuses to believe any of it to be real, and takes the title of Unbeliever to hold on to his identity.
- Lord Foul's Bane is a fantasy novel, first published in 1977. It is the first book of the first trilogy of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever fantasy series written by Stephen Donaldson.
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| - Led by High Lord Prothall, and accompanied by the Lords' sleepless and ageless protectors the Bloodguard, and the Giant Foamfollower, the Lords' party sets out eastward. Covenant joins them in the hope that the recovery of the Staff of Law will somehow assist in his return to his "real" world. Along the way, Covenant attempts to come to terms with whether or not to believe in the reality of the Land. He also attempts to redeem himself for his outrage against Lena by commanding one of the Ranyhyn, the wild, free and intelligent horses of the eastern Plains of Ra, to do homage to her yearly. The Ramen, a tribe of humans who dedicate their lives to care and protection of the Ranyhyn, awed to see their equine companions under Covenant's compulsion, agree to assist the quest on the last leg of its journey.
In the end, at the cost of the deaths of many of their companions, the Lords succeed in penetrating Mount Thunder and seizing the Staff, temporarily securing peace for the Land. Covenant destroys Drool Rockworm and saves the surviving members of the party by using the wild magic of his ring to summon the Fire-Lions, creatures of living lava which issue from the peak of Mount Thunder, although he does not fully control or even understand his power.
After the death of Drool, who had used the Staff of Law to summon Covenant to the Land, Covenant feels his physical body fading away, loses consciousness, and wakes up in his own world, a leper once more.
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| - Lord Foul's Bane is the first book in The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever trilogy written by Stephen R. Donaldson, and published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston Publishing on July 12, 1978. It's followed by The Illearth War, also published in 1978. The novel tells the story of Thomas Covenant, a bitter outcast leper who is transported to the Land where the task of saving the world against Lord Foul is placed on his head. But Covenant refuses to believe any of it to be real, and takes the title of Unbeliever to hold on to his identity. The novel was a critical and financial success, with critics praising the subversion of the classic fantasy tropes, the deep and mature themes and style.
- Lord Foul's Bane is a fantasy novel, first published in 1977. It is the first book of the first trilogy of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever fantasy series written by Stephen Donaldson. Thomas Covenant, a leper whose wife has left him, struggles to survive daily existence on the outskirts of a town that shuns him because of his illness. Forcing himself to engage in human contact, he suffers an accident in the town while trying to pay a bill. He ends up in a strange world referred to by its inhabitants as The Land. He experiences what he feels is magic in various ways; he discovers hurtloam a type of mud that heals him. The Land's inhabitants see in him their hero of lore, Berek Halfhand and begin to have expectations that he will help them defeat Lord Foul the Despiser who threatens wellness of The Land. Thomas embarks on a journey to see the Lords who marshal their forces to strike a blow against the evil that Lord Foul wrought.
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