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* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: The Lost Ones, Giants who were stranded from their homeland. They're exceedingly gentle, but look out if they get mad.
* [[Big Bad]]: Lord Foul, who is more like the Biggest Bad; each series has lesser [[Big Bad|BigBads]]
* [[Big Bad Duumvirate]]: In the Third Chronicles, Foul has teamed up with {{spoiler|the renegade Elohim [[Kill It
* [[Big Badass Wolf]]: Kresh are the bad kind.
* [[Black Eyes of Evil]]: The Harrow
* [[Black Magic]]: The Illearth stone and the vitriol that Ur-viles use
* [[The Blank]]: The Sandgorgons have no facial features.
* [[Blessed
* [[Blind Idiot Translation]]: The Finnish version of ''Lord Foul's Bane.''
* [[Blood Magic]]: The Sunbane.
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* [[Evil Overlord]]: Lord Foul plays it straight. Another evil overlord that appears in "The One Tree" is something of a deconstruction: he's an evil overlord, yes, but he's basically a frail and sex-crazed senior whose real power comes from his alliance with an Evil Sorcerer.
* [[Evil Sorcerer]]: Kasreyn is the [[Evil Sorcerer]] mentioned above, who is played straight.<br /><br />Drool Rockworm is a Cavewight from the first book, who thinks he can use the Staff of Law and the Illearth Stone to become one of these. In truth, they're both far more powerful than he is and almost literally eat him up. {{spoiler|And he was just Foul's [[Unwitting Pawn]] anyway}}. Depending on how far you're willing to stretch the term, all ur-vile loremasters and members of the Clave, as well as some Insequent, could count as well.
* [[Exactly What It Says
** Also, the vortex of trepidation. "What will it do?" "It will make us afraid!"
* [[Executive Meddling]]: The title ''Lord Foul's Bane'' was created by Lester Del Rey, Donaldson's editor. Donaldson's original title for the book was ''Foul's Ritual''. Also, the second chronicles was intended to be a quartet, but Del Rey insisted on a trilogy.
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* [[Inverse Law of Utility and Lethality]]: Linden's healthsense starts like this but she learns to use it for good {{spoiler|and evil}}.
* [[Jerkass]]: Plenty of them, especially {{spoiler|Roger}} Covenant in Fatal Revenant. Thomas also qualifies in the first trilogy.
* [[Kill It
* [[Kill It
* [[Knight Templar]]: The Masters made all of the right deductions [[Lawful Stupid|and came to all of the wrong answers.]]
* [[Last of His Kind]]: {{spoiler|Foamfollower becomes that in the First Chronicles, on the Land's continent, at least.}}
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* [[Obstructive Zealot]]: The Masters. All of them.
* [[Oh My Gods]]: "Stone and sea!" is what the Giants use. "By the Seven" and "''Melenkurion Abatha''" from the Lords and peoples of the Land.
* [[Omnicidal Maniac]]: Lord Foul wants to destroy the Arch of Time in order to escape it, which would mean [[The End of the World
* [[Omniscient Morality License]]: The Elohim ''think'' they have one and behave accordingly.
* [[Our Mermaids Are Different]]: The merewives are very different.
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* [[Samaritan Syndrome]]: Covenant finds out the hard way that this trope is in force.
* [[Scars Are Forever]]: Covenant lost two finger on his left hand, which helps sell the people of The Land that he's the [[Chosen One]], since his disfigurement matches that of their most legendary hero.
* [[Sealed Evil in
* [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]]: The narrator. Donaldson will never say "silver" or "strength" when he can say "argent" or "puissance". The people of the Land speak this way as well, to contrast with Covenant and Linden's more familiar speech patterns.
* [[Speak of the Devil]]: The case with the Sandgorgons.
* [[Spell My Name
* [[Stable Time Loop]]: Done rather well in the third chronicles; the characters are even [[Genre Savvy]] about it.
* [[Stock Evil Overlord Tactics]]: Lord Foul has used most of the list at some time or other. The major exception is the time travel section since time travel works differently in this series.
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* [[The Villain Makes the Plot]]: Done rather well; Lord Foul is a [[Big Bad]] for the whole series but each chronicle, and sometimes each book, have their own villain. As the series progresses the villains evolved with the heroes.
* [[Villains Act, Heroes React]]: Oh yah, big time. It's one of the strengths of Foul's plans.
* [[Villain
* [[Walking the Earth]]: This is like a [[Planet of Hats|hat]] for the Insequent.
* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: Those members of the Clave who think they're ''moderating'' the Sunbane, rather than making it ''worse''. Those in the know are straight [[Evil Sorcerer|Evil Sorcerers]].
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