A knight proper indeed; and a proper author indeed; one of the first to adopt the use of computer technology to write rather than typewriters.

The concept of white & black has nothing to do with skin colour, it is used to show two distinct and complete opposite sides. Throughout human history, humanity has associated good with white and evil with blackness. This is because of how blackness has affected us in the past. Even today and in the future also no one will be thrilled to walk down a path(even if it is a well known one) when it is pitch dark, as bad things can happen and in the past it has happened so our fear of darkness. So naturally evil has been associated with blackness. So I don't believe the author is throwing in casual racism here, I believe you are just seeing things here.

Well, Grrartin had his own Brandon Sanderson. Though his were proved incompetent.

Ye, I gave up on Narnia maybe on the last 2.
The name is Aviendha. My bet goes, she'll be Rand's fremen waifu. He'll also have The Emperor's daughter (Elayne, in WoT just some kingdom's heir, but the analogue is clear) and Min (the future-seeing guhrl),
Islam is a denomination of christianity you undereducated WoT-cultist.

And for above you: you dare to call out Terry Goodkind for plagarism, but fail to recognise the same for Robert Jordan? Shame on you.
Well, I liked Book 4 too UNTIL the last troll battle happened. There the book collapsed. And that lasted for several hundred pages.

Your apologetic is very lame.
The Aiels are straight ripoff of the fremen from Dune with their moral, desert, fanaticism, special clothing, down to the catchphrase! In book 3-4 Rand is just a clone of Paul Atraides, including the desert-rain end-peak.
Book 4's last troll battle is just a weak ripoff/clone of the battle in Helmsdeep from Two Towers (2nd book of LotR).

The Sword of Queen "references" are not just taken from the page, but they are still ripping off - only the pages rip in half in those cases, so the result is a very bad fanfiction.

Please don't tlak to me again. At least not on this topic. You clearly can't add anything of value to the conversation.

I wanned a REALLY long series, which despite its length isn't JUST a waste of time.

While my opinion is quite low on WoT, it's not unredeemable. Yet.
Well, Pratchett got knighted, so lol on You, mister.
I'd agree, if the series had remained Mr. Satan being The Shadow.
But no, he had to become the Black Light.
I felt that awkward.

Btw, with the closing of Book 4, it might turn out Mr. Satan doesn't even exist!
RJ is changing his mind on every whim!

Her name is Adelin (just found out after a few tries on Google search) She deflects Couladin's spear when he is trying to stab Rand at Alcair Dal.

The fight starts after Rand tells the gathered Aiel that they followed the Way of the Leaf as a way of confirming his identity as the Dragon Reborn.

I actually remember Aviendha, since she's one of the main characters in the series for several reasons.
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EDIT: Oh and during that search it looks like I'm not the only one wondering lol.
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I thought we were having a civil conversation, my mistake.

And personally, I enjoyed Dune and Children of Dune as well. I consider myself an analytical person, being an Auditor and all, but I wouldn't compare the similarities to that level.

I prefer to enjoy life and if something was truly plagiarized, I'd like to think I would be able to recognize it.
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Someone already beat you to it and I already acknowledged their reply. Thanks anyway. :)
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If you want to go that route, both Islam and Christianity are denominations of Judaism, which is itself a decendant of Atenism. Doesn't really matter since either way saying Shaitan is Christian is wrong.

Hope you enjoyed this lesson in comparative theology.

Oooohhhh, the Wheel in the Time keeps on tuuurrnihing...

The first book was designed to call back to the opening of the Fellowship of the Ring. It was to give readers a familiar point to draw in younger readers. As far as the rest, something tells me you didn't actually read much past the first few chapters.

Yes.

Still, in my teens I enjoyed the first few books. Until I got bored by the endless fillers and repetitiveness of the story. It has content for a trilogy, spread thinly across 14 novels. And yes, it was heavily 'inspired' by other fantasy works. But that doesn't have to be a bad thing. A story well stolen can still be a story well told. The problem with The Wheel of Time is just that, in an attempt to be 'epic', it overstays it's welcome.

LOL :thumbs up::
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That's exactly the way I felt. It was truly enjoyable for a while, until it dragged on and the years kept flying by with no end in sight.

Maybe I was caught up in the "Wheel" myself and finally broke free of the cycle lol.
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I actually found Brandon Sanderson's clojure for the series quite refreshing. The pacing and everything was as it should've been.

I couldn't even get to the Sanderson-era, because the problem is not the pacing.
The problem is the ever-changing lore.

At Book 5 (unfinished) we have 16 of 13 Forsaken, 6 confirmed dead Forsaken but the characters (even the Forsakens themselves talk about 4 dead Forsaken.

Character personalities get swapped, storylines get changed unrecognisably, the "mysteries" are only mysterious for people with very low IQ (or very low attantion-span)... Then there is the fact haracters lack any reason to be in the story both main and returning characters, not to mention the backgrounds-with-names...

Typical ignorant, didn't read it actualy WoT cultist you are, eh? Excellent member of your species.

Except Tolkien had no xian agenda.

But go ahead, be anti-culture. It will be your own fault.
It'd be time though to face reality. The Earth is not flat, and WoT is not good, objectively speaking. But I won't stop you reading.
I odn't want to ruin your day, but you speak horseshit. The Bible's core is mesopotamian (babylonian) religion, influenced by SOME egyptian remarks, and ancient greek.

You made a lame, obviously false excuse. You got what you deserved.

You also did not recognise the obvious Dune plagarism to start with, so no, again, common sense failed in your case.
Common sense fails most of the times. That's why modern, civilised people tend to not rely on it if possible.

maybe you could recognize the fact that this series has quite the following. liking or disliking even approve or label it as being good are both subjective and democratic values. Such as gee 10 people around the world enjoyed it as opposed to gee hundreds of thousands read and enjoyed these novels