r/TheDarkTower

Hello everyone,

I am on my first journey, finally nearing the Tower. (Just started part 4 of book 7). The sense of dread and depression is so thick and palpable as Roland and Susannah leave Fedic for the last time. Nothing will stop me from pushing through and finishing the tale, but I can’t help but feel overcome with the same emotions that the characters are feeling in this moment of the story. Did anyone else feel overwhelming dread when they got to this part? I’ve never felt so in tune with the emotions of characters in a story (except maybe with the immense sense of loss Roland felt when he lost Susan at the end of Wizard & Glass)

I've always wanted a tattoo sleeve inspired by the series, but that costs a fortune. Luckily, I've been presented an opportunity to barter for more than enough to get one. But now this its a possibility, I'm struggling with what to put in, how to bring it together etc. Theres so much to choose from! I'm just reaching out for idea, suggestions and any art someone wouldn't mind having as a tattoo on someone else. Any help is appreciated!

Made it through all 7 books with a single spoiler. Now I can finally join the subreddit!

Man that was a lot of death there in book 7. I loved the ending and can't wait for the next read through which will certainly come some day.

This passage from The Waste Lands is remarkable. I find it quite haunting. The lines come to Eddie, unbidden, as though he's remembering something he once read. The prosody is somewhat unwieldy, but the lines are distinct enough that you feel compelled to look up what King is quoting, and it takes you a few minutes to admit that he's not quoting anything--it's presented like that, but King wrote it.

Typically for King, bless him, there's one nonsensical bit: you can't quite behold something that stands in darkness.

Beautifully creepy stuff for all that.

Do you have a favorite passage that stands out to you because of the style more than what it means to the plot?

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Over the River (Post-Hardcore/Beatdown shouting/growling style)

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We'd never go over the river

It would be mad

Haven't you heard the stories?

We'd never go over the river

These are dark tales not

To be told at night

We'd never go over the river

There are seven beasts

Each with blades of light

We'd never go over the river

Only a madman would seek

This forsaken fight

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Doom awaits

On the shores to the east

Doom awaits

Your blood would be boiling first

Then it would freeze

Doom awaits

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And if your blood asks,

Father!

Why art thou afraid?

Let them cross the flood

For they'll only know

What them awaits

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If the they see by themselves

And they feel it the pain

For bold confidence can be a curse

But by then it's too late

It's too late

And for every daring question

There's six feet of a grave

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If you ever go over the river

Your soul will be ripped out

and burned at the stake

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Some before you were warned

And they still chose their fate

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You'll die at fangs of the wolf and the drake

The demons that feast on the soul and the brain

Unspeakable horrors and terrors unchained

You'll be turned inside out

and your kin will be slain

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We never go over the river

Don't ever go over the river

We never go over the river

Nights are dark In the absence of God

Thankee-sai, and I would speak to thee of time’s passage, for between the third telling of our ka-tet’s journey, The Waste Lands, and the fourth, Wizard and Glass, seven long years did pass in the world of readers who followed the Gunslinger’s path. What was it like, I ask thee true, to be left standing at the edge of that riddling madness aboard Blaine the Mono, suspended in that maddening cliffhanger, whilst the world moved on and the Dark Tower waited in silence? Did your faith hold, as a Gunslinger’s must? Did you say thankee to the writer when at last he returned to the road? Tell me, if it does ya, what those years felt like, for time is a wheel, and the Tower calls to all who have heard its song, whether they wait seven years or seven thousand

Hey fellow CR’s. I was wondering if someone could explain the significance of the pop culture references, particularly in the Wolves of the Calla.

Why do things such as sneetches (snitches) and the Dr Doom cloaks belong in mid-world?
Is it foreshadowing the fact that this is all a story and the author SK is influenced by or drawing on pop culture? Or is it saying that Harry Potter / Dr Doom are ‘real’ people in this version of the world? I’m sure there’s other references besides these two but I can’t think of any right now.

So if this is a dumb question, I feel like I might be missing something haha

Also bonus question, why was the incredibly powerful and incredibly evil lord of darkness the Crimson King just yeeting sneetches at Roland instead of using spells or sorcery or whatever.

Don’t get me wrong I love these books so much it hurts a little, this isn’t a dig at the books I’m just a bit confused.

Thanks team!!

When Roland lays his objects at the foot of the tower, it says “the first two heiroglyphics had faded away” and proceeds to show the new word that meant “found”. But the thing is, unless I’m going crazy or got a misprinted copy, there’s very clearly only ONE symbol that has disappeared - the one at the beginning. There were five symbols with a space in the middle for “unfound”, and then four symbols with a space in the middle for “found”. There is NO way I can possibly see to interpret it as having lost TWO symbols as it says instead of just one.

Can someone please confirm that this isn’t just my tower overloaded brain going crazy? 🤪 Thanks!

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