To Understand The Story Of Roland We Must Understand His
World. Not Roland's, But King's. King Believs In The Unknown, And Bases A Large
Part Of His Fiction Upon The Unexplained. Stephen King Believes What I Believe,
All The Strange Things That Happen In Our World Must Have Some Sort Of, Meaning,
Or Purpose. Everything He Writes Could Be A Plausable Explination, Many Things
That Happen In Our World Are Unknown. He Ponders The Wonders Of Our World,
Allows His Mind To Wander And Writes About It. Maybe That's Why He's Such An
Effective Fiction Writer. Judging By The Way King Writes, And The Clues He's
given Us We Should Be Able To Understand His World And Tell What's Going To
Happen In Future Books. The 5th Is To Be Titled "The Crawling Shadow".
King Has Already Mentioned In The Afterwords Of The Gunslinger Novels
That There Will Be 7 Books (The Number Of Devine Perfection BTW), One To Be Set
Almost Entirely In "Our" World. Now In My Personal Opinion, I Think They're
Already Written, But Probably Not Perfected Or Edited. A Least He Know's The Way
It's Suposed To Go Anyway. Notice I Said, "SUPOSED TO". Many Times King Has Said
Books Sometimes Write Themselves, He Was As Suprised About The Ending Of Book 3
As His Readers Were. There's No Way He Could Have Written And Published "The
Gunslinger" Before The Drawing Of The Three. (How Could He Know Roland Would
Never Meet Jake If Book Two Wasn't Already Written?) He Wouldn't Have Remembered
The Jaw Bone.
Time & Tower
All Worlds Are
Contained Within The Tower, Or At Least Accessable. We Know There Are Different
Levels, And Time Holds No Barrier There. The Beams Support The Tower, (And All
Existance) And The Guardians Protect The Beams. As We Heard From Ted, From
Hearts In Atlantis, Marten Wants The Beams Shut Down. We Also Know Ted Is A
Breaker, And Has Been To The Future, He Knows About Books In Our World That
Haven't Been Written In Bobby's When.
It Seems As If Rolands World Is In
Another Dimension, But I Tend To Think It's Another Time, Like The Future, But
Still On Earth. All Things Are Possible At The Tower, Time Is No Exception. I
Think It's Possible All That Roland Has Sacrificed, All The Lives Lost May Be
Redeemed At The Tower, So Expect To See Cuthbert, Alain And Jamie
Again.
To Understand The Tower We Must Understand How Time Works. There
Are 2 Types Of Time. Constant And Relative. Constant is Always Constant, You Do
Age Reguardless Of Travel and Relative Time Passes. Relative Time Is Relative To
How We Perceive The Passage Of Time.
Time Is Like A River, And Flows. If You Wish To Change The Flow, You Must Go
Back To The Point You Wish To Change And Block The Ebb. The Blocked Ebb Will
Create A New River For Which To Exist In. But Should You Chose To Go Back To The
Original Tide, You Must Go Back To Before You Changed The First One And Alter
The Intended Action. Only If You Are Successful Will You Change Back The
Original Purpose. If You Are Unsuccessful, The Second Reality Will Become
Reality As You Know It.
So You See We Now Have 2 Realities, But Only One Is Prominent With Constant
Time. This Is How Things Are Possible With Time Travel. If There Was An
Alternative Outcome Created By A Negative Force, It Needs To Be Corrected By A
Positive One. The Tower Is The Mother Of All Portals. It Holds All Possible
Outcomes With Both Time And Location. Where And When. And The Tower Is Beginning
To Crumble. And All Realities Are In Danger.
I Have Also Noticed King Has
Occasionaly Mentioned "The White" In His Writings. This Is Very Mysterious, And
If You As Interested As I Am, Then You'll Enjoy Reading This. He Rarely Hints
About This But I Have Found Traces Of It In Wizard And Glass, The Talisman And
Also The Eyes Of The Dragon. It Goes On To Say That The White Is Natures Way Of
Clensing The Earth, And Has Happened Several Times Throughout History. You May
Also Find It Interesting That Flagg Has A Magic Crystal Very Similar To
Marilyn's Rainbow In Eyes Of The Dragon. This Could Very Well Be Before Roland
Had A Chance To Have Stolen It In W & G. It Also Mentions Rhianon, The Dark
Witch Of The Coos. Rhea??? Probably.
Oh, One More Thing... Written Within
The Gunslinger, It States The Conversation Between The Man In Black And The
Gunslinger Continued, Although Roland Remembered Little Of It Later On. King Did
Not Write It And Leaves It Open For More Speculation At A Later Date. The Second
Thing Is There Were 7 Tarot Cards Drawn By Walter. The Hanged Man (The
Gunslinger), The Sailor, (The Boy), The Prisoner (Eddie), The Lady Of Shadows
(Odetta), Death (Yet Not For You Gunslinger), The Tower (Placed Over The Hanged
Man), And Life (Yet Not For You). We Do Not Know What The Sixth And Seventh
Cards Mean And Leaves This Open For Further Consideration.
Other Interesting Points
I Have Also Noticed King Has Occasionaly Mentioned "The White" In His Writings. This Is Very Mysterious,
And If You As Interested As I Am, Then You'll Enjoy Reading This. He Rarely Hints About
This But I Have Found Traces Of It In Wizard And Glass, The Talisman And Also The Eyes Of
The Dragon. It Goes On To Say That The White Is Natures Way Of Clensing The Earth, And
Has Happened Several Times Throughout History. You May Also Find It Interesting That
Flagg Has A Magic Crystal Very Similar To Marilyn's Rainbow In Eyes Of The Dragon. This
Could Very Well Be Before Roland Had A Chance To Have Stolen It In W & G. It Also Mentions
Rhianon, The Dark Witch Of The Coos. Rhea??? Probably.
Black House And Story Developments
With The Release Of Black House Comes New Information Into The Dark Tower
Saga. Black House Tells Us The Core Story Behind Roland's Purpose And
The Intentions Of The Crimson King.
Now I warn You, If You Have
Not Read Black House This Will Contain Spoilers In The Book. So You've
Been Warned.
So We Know Now Ted Brauttigan Is The Cheif Of The Breakers. (And Presumably
The Only Adult) And We Know The Crimson King Is Pent At The Top Of The
Tower. And What Of His Other Physical Manifestation? Well, This Is The
Theories Section, So I believe It Is The Ageless Stranger, Or Randall
Flagg, Or Marten. We Also Know What Breakers Are, And He Intends To Use
Them To Break The Beams That Support The Tower. 3 Have Already Been
Broken, 2 Are Weakening And Only 1 Still Stands Completely.
And We Know Ty Marshall Is One Of The Most Powerfull Breakers Of All Time.
Luckily The Crimson King Did Not Get Ahold Of Him. (Yet) Although I would
Have Enjoyed Such A Meeting Between The Two. We Know There Are Burning Caves
Beneath The Tower, And The World Where Gorg Comes From, Nights Plutonian
Shore.
Revelations
So What Of These Other Worlds, And Breakers? Only Time And King Will Say.
But I can Deduce One Thing, Taken From The Prologue Of DT 5. Roland And
Company Are VERY Close To The Tower. If You Notice 2 very Important
Things On The DT 5 Prologue. (1.) Father Calahan Has Maerlyn's Rainbow,
Or At Least One Of Them.
It Says He Appears At The Conversation Because He Saw Them. From The
Thing Under The Floor Of His Church. And If He Didn't Get Rid Of It
Soon. It Would Kill Him.
And (2.) Andy Mentions Northwest Of Town,
Along The Path Of The Beam, Strangers From Out World Approach. And Near
The End, Father Calahan Speaks About Gunslingers. Except They're Coming
Along The Path Of The Beam. Not From The Northwest, But From The East.
The Beams Are Converging.
Movie Connections And Other Authors
I Would Like To Make An Interesting Point. King Gives Us More Information
Than From Just Books. I Have Found A Connection Between The Green Mile
Film That Is Also In The Book. Near The End John Coffee
States He Sees The Stars And Makes Reference To Old Mother In Her
Rocking Chair.
Another Possible Controvercial Connection May Be A Link Between The DT
Series And The Lord Of The Rings. This Is Indeed A Bold Statement, However
The Possibility And Coincidental Facts Are Still There. Among Neumerous
Mentions Referring To Sauron, "The Eye Wreathed In Flame". There Is One
More Substantial Signifigant Point. When Gandalf Meets His Elder Saruman
Concerning The Events Of The Ring He Asks How He Knows This. Saruman Replies
He Has Seen It Through A Thing Called A Palantir. Gandalf Immediately
Runs To His Crystal Ball Covering It And Stating "It Is Dangerous, Not
All Have Been Accounted For!" This Lends Serious Speculation To The Possibility
Of Maerlyn's Rainbow. And Why Not? King Has Mentioned J.R.R Tolkien Before
In The DT Novels As
Well As Other Authors. Is It A Possibility Kings Worlds Can Contain Other
Author's Work As Well?
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