The Dark Tower Ending - I HATED IT! **SPOILERS**

I am quite the same in the sense that I've been a fan for 20 years and have only recently read DT finished it no less than a month ago in fact, but I quite liked the end. Cant even say exactly why :)
I even want to start over again myself.

I hated the ending at first too but after continuing to read his books I sort of understand why it had to end that way and that's because the Tower is a never ending struggle Sai King is dealing with and until he himself is able to defeat the power of the Tower over him it will stay that way.

Same here... at first thought of it as ....arrgh another it was a dream sequence noooooo...

But upon reflection, it was brilliant....

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and he does pick-up the Horn this time around...soooo, maybe it is the last....

Why is the horn so important..... Will anything else be different this time as he has the horn...

I have another thousand thoughts like those, but if it ended Roland wins crimson king dead Roland married and had kids those 1000 thought provoking ?'s would not have been there for me

Read Stephen Hawkings "the universe in a nutshell and a Brief History of Time" Read them like 50 times. Quantum Physics dumbed down so normal people can understand but there is (like todash) ways particles can be in more than one place at a time, different dimensions etc.

Point is the ending is great and the beams will someday show you the way!

Long days and pleaseant nights !

I like it from the point where is was reading the last letter, it´s perfect and cold not be other ending. of course

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I also want to know, why he´s on the journey, why he´s damned, what the dark tower really is, but I think SK wants to keep this open, so everybody paint his own ideas, as I would say every reader have and will be done

sorry for the bad english, I think there are many mistakes in this post

Well I hated it too but

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after a thinking it over for a few days I realised that I would never be happy with what was in the tower because the story would JUST END and the way Mr King did end it was perfect because the whole quest is a cycle and it leaves us to wonder what will happen this time around, who will Roland meet? will he have another Ka Tet and what strange places will he go to and which of our favouite characters will he meet?

Just my opinion.

I hated it at first, like many, but now I find it perfect.

This is how I see it:

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Each time Roland encounters his quest he becomes more man than beast. The journey we read about was like reaching the top of a mountain. After all of his travails he finally reached the top and learned to love. Love is redemption. Getting to the top of a mountain is only half the battle though. The descent is after Roland has found redemption for his sins for the first time, and for his troubles to get to the top and how he learned to love he is rewarded with the Horn of Eld from Gan. The way down the mountain may be one more journey, or multiple, or many, but the one we encountered was the most significant because Roland encountered love and redemption for the first time.

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Originally Posted by Glen

I don't think I'd be overstating things if I were to say it came to mean something life-changing for me.

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Hi,

Yes, exactly, I loved it from the gecko personally (although it caused half an hour of hysterics!).

Long days and pleasant nights

You know, both my Ma and I liked the ending...I was surprised she liked it.

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The entire series could be different with the Horn of Eld...mebbe it could scare off the Lobstrosities...and then Roland wouldn't be so desperate for Keflex and Astin. Who knows? That's the main point to me. Who knows how things would go down? It's the Horn of ELD...Arthur Eld. Who knows what powers it possesses?

Hate is a hard/strong word. I feel like listening to Annie Wilkes :(

Never had a second thought- the ending was as it should be. This was an awesome journey for me, life changing. And each time I've taken it again, I've found new understanding and insight.