[ SECRET POST #2216 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2216 ⌋

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Comments

[something_greater]

I've always explained Robert Jordan as a writer as an incredibly skilled fantasy writer with great strengths in military tactics, politics, prophecy, and world building who also just happens to have the soul of a 14 year old girl when it comes to romance.

I think part of it has to do with the fact that he was ridiculously, over-the-top in love with his wife (who was nine years his senior and a Harvard-Radcliffe graduate!) who he met when he was 29 after having spent the last 9 years of his life in an extremely regimented military environment. Given that most of his male characters react to romance in a deeply high school way (Rand, Mat, and Perrin's recurring conviction that the other two are the ones who are Good With Girls, anyone?) I just suspect that in his experience that's how romance worked.

Which is why I cut him some slack, because I find it kind of endearing? Also while double-checking the dates on the series I was struck again by just how impressive James Rigney (Robert Jordan's real name) was. He was a Vietnam vet who went to The Citadel after his tours, got a degree in physics, and was working as a nuclear engineer for the Navy when he met his future wife. Who was also a badass, and a professional editor. It just seems really awesome to me that they wrote books together for 30 years, and that she was instrumental in making sure that the last books of the series got published after he died.

[nynaeve_sedai]

That's pretty much the exact same explanation my husband gave me LOL. I don't fault him - it's my only major complaint. There maybe a good reason behind it, but it does drive me a bit batty :)