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Re: And she said the husband comment before going to the Aelfinn... DomA Send a noteboard - 19/09/2010 08:20:29 PM
In tSR she makes a comment about knowing her husband's face better than the wonder girls. When they ask her who she's talking about, she plays it off as they are all ignorant of that knowledge. However, most people take it to be a clue that she knows Thom will be her husband. Along with the fact that she tells him they will meet again and that he will survive Tanchico.


Did she reveal that she knew because of Min in EOTW? I don't remember that. I thought she kept it mysterious, just said she was fairly sure Thom was alive, that no dead gleeman was mentionned in Whitebridge and so on.

It's pretty obvious there's that viewing involved, though and also that by TDR or so Moiraine's faith in Min's viewings has become absolute. In TSR, she doesn't hesitate to speak very affirmatively to Thom, with zero evasion - so she's totally convinced she speaks the naked truth there. Moiraine has become convinced she won't die and neither will Thom before the viewing is accomplished. She deals with this exactly like Elayne does in KOD: she can endanger Thom, and she can take many greater risks, because the viewing isn't yet fulfilled. Jordan was being ironic there, as Moiraine behave this way on the one hand, and was aroudn the same time reminding Rand that for all the prophecies he could die on the other hand.

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moiraine's three questions - 18/09/2010 12:21:52 AM 1527 Views
She knew he'd survive because Min told Moiraine they end up together, and they weren't a couple yet. - 18/09/2010 12:56:09 AM 669 Views
Can that really be right? - 18/09/2010 06:44:40 PM 807 Views
That is her "thimble of hope" that she mentions twice *NM* - 18/09/2010 07:41:23 PM 314 Views
Re: That is her "thimble of hope" that she mentions twice - 18/09/2010 08:19:03 PM 684 Views
She needs to have known that she would see Thom again - 18/09/2010 08:25:37 PM 624 Views
Re: She needs to have known that she would see Thom again - 18/09/2010 09:26:26 PM 654 Views
It doesn't change your point, but I know she hadn't entered the doorway yet. It was in this chapter - 18/09/2010 11:58:53 PM 542 Views
I'll take your word for it - 19/09/2010 06:10:43 AM 600 Views
You're misinterpreting which viewing is the one which Min believes turned out wrong. - 19/09/2010 03:33:04 AM 538 Views
???? - 19/09/2010 06:08:11 AM 674 Views
Wrong, she never specifies WHICH viewing was the wrong one. - 19/09/2010 07:28:21 AM 797 Views
She doesn't have any reason to think that's wrong yet, though. - 20/09/2010 06:02:37 PM 718 Views
I'm going to make one last attempt before giving up - 20/09/2010 10:03:54 PM 627 Views
Yes, you're right - 21/09/2010 12:20:47 AM 536 Views
another interpretation (albeit, irrelevant to this discussion ) - 21/09/2010 04:55:30 AM 643 Views
If that fulfilled the viewing Min would never have said - 21/09/2010 05:07:34 AM 572 Views
it's likely - 18/09/2010 07:53:30 PM 732 Views
And she said the husband comment before going to the Aelfinn, and believed his survival back in EotW - 19/09/2010 12:15:26 AM 650 Views
Re: And she said the husband comment before going to the Aelfinn... - 19/09/2010 08:20:29 PM 727 Views
EotW p568 - 21/09/2010 05:22:23 PM 651 Views
She probably asked how to best guide and protect Rand - 19/09/2010 12:20:56 AM 757 Views
I tend to agree - 19/09/2010 07:08:50 PM 732 Views

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