***Goodbye Robert Jordan***

[Hunter]

He died yesterday, and he was DOING SO WELL!!! IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE IN REMISSION!!!! DAMNIT!!!

:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

Full Details below, provided by his cousin, Wilson, posted on his official blog. I was wondering why his latest blog was a bit late . . :

http://www.dragonmount.com/RobertJordan/?p=90


Sometimes even when you’ve fought your best…. (http://www.dragonmount.com/RobertJordan/?p=90)
Posted by Wilson on September 16th, 2007 in the Robert Jordan's Blog (http://www.dragonmount.com/RobertJordan/?cat=2) category http://www.dragonmount.com/Images/spacer.gif

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

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Editor’s Note:
The entire staff of Dragonmount.com would like to extend its most deepest sympathies to Robert Jordan’s family. He touched all of our lives in some way and we wish him the rest and peace he deserves. We will be posting information in the near future about where you can send condolences. Please check the News Section (http://www.dragonmount.com/News) for these updates.




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"May you shelter in the palm of the Creator's hand, and may the last embrace of the mother welcome you home."

[Wildcat]

That's really too bad. I hope he passed away peacefully.

[DarthArcturus]

damn...that sucks. He didn't finish the series right ? A geek God is dead :(


ps: this confirms hunter does not equal Jordan

[Hunter]

Well, he was pretty close to done. He was probably about 50-75% done with the final book, and he's got it all outlined. He authorized his wife and cousin to finish it in the event he didn't make it. So we will get the final book, but that's the end. No spin-offs, pre-quels, or Infinity of Heaven. :(

[jp]

There... there are no words for this. I'm... I'm pretty much just in shock.



RIP Mr. Jordan.

[Hunter]

Yeah, it just blew me away when it hit me. I mean, it was crazy, I was on the 360 board, and one of the developers of Mass Effect was doing some Q&A and, someone, I'm guessing they just heard the news just blurts it out. And it just blew me away, I was like oh god no, that can't be true, but I knew it was. So I headed over to dragonmount, and there it was. It's just insane, I mean, so sudden. A month ago he was all chipper on his blog and things were going so well, what the hell happened? It just doesn't make any frikkin sense.

[Hunter]

George R. R. Martin Pays his respects on his Blog (http://grrm.livejournal.com/):



9:30pm: R.I.P. Robert Jordan
The world of high fantasy is poorer today.

James Rigney, better known to fantasy readers as Robert Jordan, has passed away. Although he had been fighting amyloidosis for several years, the news of his death still came as a shock to many, including me. He was so optimistic and determined that you had to think that if anyone could beat the disease, it would be him.

Jim was a good and gracious man, a pleasure to share a platform or a pint with, and his contributions to modern fantasy were many. His huge, ambitious WHEEL OF TIME series helped to redefine the genre, and opened many doors for the writers who followed.

He was also unfailingly generous towards other fantasists, always ready to offer them support and encouragement. My own ICE & FIRE series might never have found its audience without the cover quote that Jim was so kind as to provide, back when A GAME OF THRONES was first published. I will always be grateful to him for that.

The last time I saw Jim was at an Archon in Collinsville, Illinois. It was before his final illness. He was the convention Guest of Honor and I was the Toastmaster, and I introduced him by telling the audience that actually we were the same person. It was a gag that Jim himself had suggested in the Green Room beforehand. While I was doing the intro, and claiming credit for all his books, he slowly entered, walked up silently behind me, and stood looming over me, glowering like Zeus. We got a great laugh.

I had some great dinners with Jim and his wife Harriet there in Collinsville as well. We talked about other writers, editors, publishers, all the stuff that writers always talk about... oh, and a little about our own series as well... and Jim and Harriet invited me to visit them if I ever made it down to Charleston. Sad to say, I never did.

RIP, Jim. You will be much missed.
Current Mood: http://stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/dwaggins/sad.gif sad

[Hunter]

From Jordan's wife:


From Harriet (http://www.dragonmount.com/RobertJordan/?p=91)
Posted by Harriet on September 22nd, 2007 in the Robert Jordan's Blog (http://www.dragonmount.com/RobertJordan/?cat=2) category

http://www.dragonmount.com/Images/spacer.gif Dear Everyone,
He has gone where pain and suffering are no more.
Whenever he was able to be at the computer, he checked the blog first thing. Your e-mails REALLY MATTERED to him. He loved them … and I think in some sense he loved you all.

I never thanked you for all my birthday messages, but I do now. We had a nice party…about a dozen people, ranging in age from 4 months to 82 years, sitting around the dining room table which had been covered with lots of newspaper, picking our own lovely boiled local shrimp, eating corn on the cob and homemade biscuits , and later eating watermelon; a good deal of white wine went down our gullets, too. I should add, no cooking was done by me. My dearest first cousin, also named Harriet (we’re both named for her mother), did it all, just about.

It was a happy time. Jim made it so.

He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone.

These are words Jim said to me several books ago, in the weary but always thrilling hours of putting the manuscript to bed, ready to carry to New York in the morning — I remember grabbing a piece of discarded script and scrawling those words up the margin, because they were so beautiful. He was talking about Rand. I of course am not.

I know he touched all of you. Thanks for being there.


Here is his final interview, given to the local newspaper. Notice the date:
Robert Jordan aims to get back on feet


By Bill Thompson


Thursday,September 13, 2007


Jim Rigney intends to “keep marching to the horizon.” Stage One is getting back on his feet.


Known to millions of readers as Robert Jordan, the best-selling author of “The Wheel of Time” fantasy series continues to cross swords with the rare blood disease amyloidosis, a progressive disorder he was first diagnosed with in December 2005 at the Medical University of South Carolina.


Subsequently, the author has been undergoing treatment at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.


Rigney reports that with the help of the Mayo Clinic, he is keeping things under control.


“My numbers are still good, in the normal range. We will be going back up to the Mayo in about a month and we’ll see what the status is. Now I just have to get my foot healed up so I have a chance of getting out of this wheelchair. Strange to think that my foot, of all things, would be giving me the most trouble. It’s getting better, but unfortunately the amyloidosis makes healing go very slowly.


“When I get the foot better then I can start on the process of walking again. I hope to do this in another two or three months.”


While there has been no improvement in heart function and no change in his overall prognosis as of June, Rigney says improvement remains possible. And he’s determined.


“I’ve got promises to keep.”
And he did march, guys. He marched toward that horizon until he crossed it, where we cannot follow yet.

The word now, the only possible word, is Onward.
Go for it. With love.

Consider yourselves hugged.
Harriet

[Hunter]

Yesterday was the one year anniversary of his passing. :(

[Bruhaha69]

Woah, that was a year ago. Holy shit. Time flies.

[Hunter]

Yeah, I was pretty shocked, next thing you know Sestren will be 5 years old!

[DarthArcturus]

holy shit a year already?