What is Reddit's opinion of The Wheel of Time Companion: The People, Places, and History of the Bestselling Series?

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Yeah. The book even admits this in its Introduction, which you can actually read it on Amazon.

Take a look at the book's Introduction on Amazon where actually it states this!

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I found a few on my first go through—the most famous is 'Bela' which is deliberate!(it was kind of a tongue in cheek joke for the fans)—but I did not bother to make a list of them.

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Though it is very far from the thoroughness of the extravagant 'Tolkien's World from A to Z: The Complete Guide to Middle-Earth', as a lot of stuff is left out—Aiel 'bridal wreath' for example—of tWoT's version, while Tolkien's includes—everything—including the kitchen sink.

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I say that it is still worth getting. But, like pointed out, some entries need to be taken with a grain of salt.

Wheel of time. Want to look up people places or things in the series? You might need this 800+ page companion book.

WoT companion book

No facts from the books? Seriously mate? When we got a +800 pages official encyclopedia with official facts? With even a bloody old tongue translation? You got to be trolling me. https://www.amazon.com/Wheel-Time-Companion-History-Bestselling/dp/0765314622

https://www.amazon.com/Wheel-Time-Companion-History-Bestselling/dp/0765314622

This book, co-authored by Robert Jordan himself as well as others, is explicit in saying Siuan and Moiraine are not lovers.

Pillow-Friends is certainly a polite way of summarizing Chef's saying from South Park: There's a time and place for everything, and it's called college.

Novice and Accepted experiment with one another, and commiserate with one another. For most Aes Sedai, it does not stick.

https://www.amazon.com/Wheel-Time-Companion-History-Bestselling/dp/0765314622/ref=nodl_

It’s not a monster manual.

Why don’t you try googling WoT power rankings, see the many, many discussions on it, and prove yourself wrong for me.

Or go on being intentionally ignorant of reality. Your choice. 🤷‍♂️

The big fat book of glossary lookups..

It's basically like the glossary at the end of every book, only for the entire series and as such is full of spoilers and extra notes about characters and such not revealed in the books like Sindhol is Old Tongue for Neverland, or how the Aes Sedai use videogames from the AoL to torture criminals on the island.

Most if not all the info in it is available on the wiki.

Book. https://smile.amazon.com/Wheel-Time-Companion-History-Bestselling/dp/0765314622/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2TISOVRPQVWMO&keywords=the+wheel+of+time+companion&qid=1570485976&s=books&sprefix=the+wheel+of+time+companion%2Caps%2C308&sr=1-1 The paperback is the large size, not the small mass market pprbk. And if you're a fan of Daniel Greene's you tube channel, he has it in his Amazon store and will help support his channel.

This is why they were idiots for getting rid of the 50-80s "deep doctrine" McKonkie/Nibley/etc. types. Our parents all had bookshelves of what were effectively the Encyclopedia of Wheel of Time or Game of Thrones but for Mormonism.

Then they decided that members should only read approved sources and most of that died away and so we were bored stiff and satisfied our curiosity by reading things wholly unrelated to the church and learned about science and history and psychology and oops it's become painfully clear that all those Mormon approved sources aren't compatible with reality.

It's big. It's black. It's a book. It's the big black book!

The Introduction explains this- Amazon.

I thought it was in the companion book? https://www.amazon.com/Wheel-Time-Companion-History-Bestselling/dp/0765314622

Your complaint reads like someone who read a survey on the civil war and then complained about how it didn't talk about what life was like for southern deserters from Georgia when they got home. I don't think anyone expects authors to put this into books unless it's relevant to the story. If you want...this exists... https://www.amazon.com/Wheel-Time-Companion-History-Bestselling/dp/0765314622

I'm not in it yet, but I don't think anyone has actually said that the page count in the slog was efficiently used or well used, and that page count could've been used to explore such things, but I find it hard to believe anyone who reads WoT comes away with one of their main complaints being about the world building even based on the main books.

Yes, definitely worth it. And a much more rich and nuanced story than the show is telling currently (imo). In other words, if you think the show is good, the books are even better! The whole long journey is definitely worth it. So much so than on average most of the WoT fans have read the entire thing more than once (myself included) This is one of those book series that you read in order.. 1,2,3 etc. There is a WoT companion that is a little reference book that might be handy to keep track of everything and everyone (it gets quite complex). Details here

If you are curious about Lan and Moraine 's story, there is also New Spring which is a prequel to the show / where the rest of the book series kicks off.

I must warn you, I gets a bit slow / tedious somewhere in the middle (for me, anyway) but it's totally worth pushing through any sluggish bits to get to the end.