I actually should probably do a few frequently asked questions as well. For those wondering, there is an encyclopedia in the works. (applause) This was something that Harriet’s been working on for years, and (to Harriet) I’ll just let you mention about it, if you would.
I started keeping a list of proper nouns with The Eye of the World . I didn’t know what I was up against. (laughter) Because I began, just keeping the list, without any chapter references, with The Great Hunt I began adding chapter references, and every book since then has been combed through. The last book, we had an intern, and we said, “Yeah!” (laughter) “You can code the names, and please put in when they die, what chapter, if anybody dies.”
So anyway, this thing has been in progress from the beginning, and it will take us a year to figure out exactly how to organize it, what to leave out, what to add in. As Brandon has said, there are 32? 38,000 pages of notes. The entire series is ten thousand pages, so there’s a lot of stuff in the notes. Brandon tried to put it all into one document, and when it got to that far, his computer stopped counting, and then it crashed. (laughter) So there’s a lot of material.
Yeah, it wasn’t even funny. My poor little laptop’s like, “What have you done to me?” (laughter) I thought, you know, because Harriet’s often said, “Oh there’s more notes than there are words in the entire series combined,” and so I thought, “Oh, I’ll find out exactly how many there are.” No, I didn’t find out how many there are; I just crashed my computer. But yeah, she has said that some of the things from the notes will end up in the encyclopedia, some tidbits and things that you don’t already know, so that means I can still RAFO questions when you ask me. (laughter)
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