Rest in peace :(

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"Sometimes even when you've fought your best....
Posted by Wilson on September 16th, 2007 in the Robert Jordan's Blog
category

It is with great sadness that I tell you that the Dragon is gone. RJ
left us today at 2:45 PM. He fought a valiant fight against this most
horrid disease. In the end, he left peacefully and in no pain. In the
years he had fought this, he taught me much about living and about
facing death. He never waivered in his faith, nor questioned our God's
timing. I could not possibly be more proud of anyone. I am eternally
grateful for the time that I had with him on this earth and look
forward to our reunion, though as I told him this afternoon, not yet.
I love you bubba.

Our beloved Harriet was at his side through the entire fight and to
the end. The last words from his mouth were to tell her that he loved
her.

Thank each and everyone of you for your prayers and support through
this ordeal. He knew you were there. Harriet reminded him today that
she was very proud of the many lives he had touched through his work.
We've all felt the love that you've been sending my brother/cousin.
Please keep it coming as our Harriet could use the support.

Jason will be posting funeral arrangements.

My sincerest thanks.

Peace and Light be with each of you,

Wilson
Brother/Cousin
4th of 3

To Catalyst: Never, never loose faith. RJ did not. Harriet hasn't. I
haven't. Going through what we have, our faith is only strengthened.
Besides, if God didn't exist, we would have never had Jim. We did. God
does. Remember my Brother/Cousin, my friend, think of him fondly and
glorify God's name.

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A crap ...

Even though the last several books in the series have not been particularly amazing, they were still far better than the vast majority of fantasy books on the market

Oh God...I'm speechless.

Damn, everybody is dying now, Pavarotti, Colin McRae, and now R. Jordan. WTF is happening in this world??.

One Wheel of Time book to go and he dies. Lame.

Oh geez, my friend has read all the WoT books. He'll be so upset RJ isn't around to finish the series. But at the rate he was going, he might never have finished anyway. It was always one more book.....

A shame though, he was a great writer.

The series has been awful since Fires of Heaven, in my opinion, but it's a shame about him dying before A Memory of Light.

I don't know him but respect for this guy :(.

RIP.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.........................

I was so waiting for that last book :((

So hoping the series would actually end...

One of my favorite past times used to be reading, specifically 'fantasy' books by the likes of Piers Anthony, Terry Brooks, and David Eddings. But out of all of the authors out there, Robert Jordan was my favorite. His books were quite long and deep. And after I discovered him, I devoured the seven books in his The Wheel of Time Series that had been written up until that time. And as often happens with series, I then had to wait for the next book. By the time that finally came out, I had pretty much stopped reading. And Ages had become myth to me.

I've often considered picking the series back up, especially now that there's a total of eleven books. But it's been over ten years since I've last read one. So that means that I'll probably have to start reading from the beginning. And so the length and depth I so cherished when I was younger I now find daunting.

And now sadly Mr. Jordan has passed away before finishing what he had promised would be the last book in the series.  Jordan knew that he may not be able to and was working on notes so another author could complete A Memory of Light the way he intended. I'm not sure anyone else could do it justice, but if it does it may be a beginning to my reading again...