Questions and Comments

[anonomous angel]

could i make like a trivia thread, where people could post questions then someone else posts what they think the answer is, it could be good  

[Ashley Erin]

anonomous angel

could i make like a trivia thread, where people could post questions then someone else posts what they think the answer is, it could be good

Sure you could! We encourage anything that gets members active. 3nodding  

[fmafreak93]

about how many years does a "season" equal?  

[Ashley Erin]

fmafreak93

about how many years does a "season" equal?

Don't quote me on this, but it would appear through his books (especially taking Taggerung into consideration) that one season = 1 year. For example, a creature who is 15 seasons old... is like a 15 year old teenager.  

[Jen the Quiet]

I still contend that a season is a season, three months. I remember the copy of Redwall I first read from the library was like a ten-year-anniversary edition, and Jacques had written a preface and it opened with something to the effect of his writing the book "forty seasons ago."

I think.  

[Ashley Erin]

Jen the Quiet

I still contend that a season is a season, three months. I remember the copy of Redwall I first read from the library was like a ten-year-anniversary edition, and Jacques had written a preface and it opened with something to the effect of his writing the book "forty seasons ago."

I think.

Well yeah, a season is three months. When he says "season" he means a season. I was referring to how his characters age in relation to human years.  

[fmafreak93]

Ashley Erin

fmafreak93

about how many years does a "season" equal?

Don't quote me on this, but it would appear through his books (especially taking Taggerung into consideration) that one season = 1 year. For example, a creature who is 15 seasons old... is like a 15 year old teenager.

i know you said not to quote you on this (sorry biggrin ) and that's pretty much what i thought but thanks.
and when is a dibbun not a dibbun anymore? and do they automatically become a brother/sister or do they have to pass some sort of test in dibbun school?
these questions have baffled me for 3 years and 14 books!  

[fmafreak93]

Quote:

Well yeah, a season is three months. When he says "season" he means a season. I was referring to how his characters age in relation to human years.

yes that is what i meant  

[Ashley Erin]

fmafreak93

Ashley Erin

fmafreak93

about how many years does a "season" equal?

Don't quote me on this, but it would appear through his books (especially taking Taggerung into consideration) that one season = 1 year. For example, a creature who is 15 seasons old... is like a 15 year old teenager.

i know you said not to quote you on this (sorry biggrin ) and that's pretty much what i thought but thanks.
and when is a dibbun not a dibbun anymore? and do they automatically become a brother/sister or do they have to pass some sort of test in dibbun school?
these questions have baffled me for 3 years and 14 books!

I have no idea. Jacques is never really clear as far as age goes. I guess you could just leave that up to your own discretion.  

[fmafreak93]

ok, another question (hee hee me stoopi): what's with the horse in Redwall (the book not series) that cluny and his horde were riding on in the beginning of the book? does that mean that there are other horses in the redwall world? or do you think that it was just sort of a little mistake by jacques and he realizes now that it should just like leave horses alone in the books
sorry th at last sentence was worded really weirdly, but i hope you know what i mean  

[Jen the Quiet]

They kind of disappeared after Redwall, so I believe it's assumed there aren't really horses in the Redwall universe.  

[fmafreak93]

ok good, because they just seemed weird to me  

[fmafreak93]

are there any other animls that you think shouldnt be in redwall? or animals that should but aren't?  

[Ashley Erin]

Raccoons, beavers, chipmunks, skunks... Anything the size of a cat or fox and smaller, I imagine, really. Though Jacques did mention at some point that his exclusion of such animals wasn't because he didn't think they should be there, but because he writes about the animals he sees around regularly. So he wouldn't really include animals that he doesn't see in England.  

[fmafreak93]

Ashley Erin

Raccoons, beavers, chipmunks, skunks... Anything the size of a cat or fox and smaller, I imagine, really. Though Jacques did mention at some point that his exclusion of such animals wasn't because he didn't think they should be there, but because he writes about the animals he sees around regularly. So he wouldn't really include animals that he doesn't see in England.

yeah i think i read about that on redwall.org
does anybody here have the cookbook?