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James Oliver Rigney Jr. (October 17, 1948 – September 16, 2007), better known by his pen name Robert Jordan, [1] was an American author of epic fantasy. He is known best for his series The Wheel of Time (finished by Brandon Sanderson after Jordan's death) which comprises 14 books and a prequel novel .
Dec 16, 2022 · In his new book Origins of the Wheel of Time, historian Michael Livingston explores the real-world myths and legends that Robert Jordan used to construct his epic fantasy series The Wheel of...
The Wheel of Time is a series of high fantasy novels by American author Robert Jordan, with Brandon Sanderson as a co-author for the final three installments.
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At the dawn of time a deity known as the Creator forged the universe and the Wheel of Time, which spins the Pattern of the Ages using the lives of men and women as its threads. The Wheel has seven spokes, each representing an age, and it is rotated by the One Power, which flows from the True Source. The One Power is divided into male and female hal...
The prequel novel, New Spring, takes place during the Aiel War and chronicles the end of the conflict and the discovery by the Aes Sedai that the Prophecies of the Dragonhave been fulfilled and the Dragon has been Reborn. Aes Sedai agents are dispatched to try and find the newborn child before servants of the Shadow can do the same. The series prop...
The world
The world of The Wheel of Time novels is our own world, both in the distant future and distant past. It has been hinted that our time is the First Age, the age before the Age of Legends, due to heavily distorted references to the Cold War and the US space program in the most ancient legends of the Third Age, and the presence of ancient friezes showing extinct animals, including giraffes. By the time of the Third Age, the geography of the world has shifted almost out of recognition. There are...
The main landmass
There is no universally-recognized name given for the land that stretches from the Aryth Ocean to the Spine of the World, from the Great Blight to the Sea of Storms. The Aiel call it the wetlands, while The Wheel of Time Roleplaying Game calls it the Westlands, and The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time refers to it simply as "The Land." Amongst fans, the landmass is known informally as 'Randland', but this is not an in-universe title. Robert Jordan used the term 'Westlands' in the RP...
In the early 1980s Robert Jordan wrote several Conan the Barbarian novels for Tor Books, including a novelization of the movie Conan the Destroyer. These proved successful and in 1984 he proposed an idea for an epic fantasy series of six books to Tom Doherty, the head of Tor Books. Doherty approved the idea and Jordan began writing the novel that b...
Jordan had repeatedly said that the main sequence would conclude with the twelfth book, with a working title of A Memory of Light. Numerous times, including most recently at ComicCon 2006, he said he would hold to this statement even if it had to be 1500 pages long. Before his death Jordan had planned to write two more short prequel novels, an ency...
PC and Board Games
The online game Wheel of Time Multi-User Dungeon(WoTMUD for short) is the oldest authorized game based on the series (started 1993). In 1999, Atari and Legend Entertainment released a first-person shooter based on the franchise. Titled simply "The Wheel of Time", the game is set roughly 150 years before the first book and follows an Aes Sedai who uses ter'angreal in place of weapons. There is also a soundtrack album, which includes music designed for the game. A pen-and-paper role-playing gam...
Graphic novels
An eight-issues graphic novel adaptation of New Spring, produced by DB Pro, was released in 2005. In 2009 Dabel Brothers Publishing started releasing a graphic novel adaptation of The Eye of the World in monthly issues. The publishing was later taken over by Dynamite Entertainment.
TV series
A live-action TV series produced by Amazon premiered in 2021. The first season consists of 8 one-hour-long episodes that adapt the story of The Eye of the World.
Dec 16, 2021 · An exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the Wheel of Time through the lens of the life of its founding author, Robert Jordan. Watch never-before-seen interviews with his wife, Harriet McDougal,...
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The Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan. 15 primary works • 60 total works. Written by Robert Jordan and completed posthumously by Brandon Sanderson, The Wheel of Time is one of the greatest epics of fantasy and a #1 internationally bestselling series.
Nov 18, 2021 · The Wheel of Time is based upon a novel series by the same name, published by Robert Jordan starting in the 1990s and until his tragically early death at 58 in 2007, and then completed by...
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