Each group travels in the opening chapters to an ancient, dead city crawling with curses, followed by a pitiful creature in rags. In both stories, a powerful magic-user takes the young heroes under wing, and they are assisted by a tracker of sorts who turns out to be a king awaiting a throne. It’s a comfortable setting with a feeling of impending disruption.Įven characterizations and settings share certain descriptive likenesses.
Both openings feature a celebration with entertainment provided by a wise man who will become important to the young ones on their journey.
Like Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin, Rand and his similarly named friends Mat and Perrin live in a small town far removed from the larger political conflicts of this world. Right from the opening scene of The Eye of the World, the parallels are obvious: a dark rider is seen following a young, naive soul named Rand al’Thor, who is unaware of how important he is. I like taking a familiar theme, something people think they know and know where it must be heading, then standing it on its ear or giving it a twist that subverts what you thought you knew.” In the prologue to his tenth book in the series, Jordan wrote: “In the first chapters of The Eye of the World, I tried for a Tolkien-esque feel without trying to copy Tolkien’s style, but that was by way of saying to the reader, okay, this is familiar, this is something you recognize, now let’s go where you haven’t been before. Thirty years later, in a pop culture landscape in which Lord of the Rings has become even more well-known than it was in 1990 (when Eye of the World was first published by Tor Books), Jordan’s narrative strategy is still paying off. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy, creating a recognizable pattern that would pull in readers while simultaneously building a wholly unique world of his own. Jordan based the book’s early story structure on that of J. With The Wheel of Time set to premiere on Prime Video, some fantasy fans may decide they’d like to dip their toes into the waters of the Robert Jordan novels upon which the show is based, and although Book 1, The Eye of the World, may seem daunting at nearly 800 pages, it’s fittingly (and intentionally) the most accessible story in the 14-book series.
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