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	Roland Deschain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Roland Deschain, son of Steven Deschain, of Gilead in New Canaan, and of the line of Eld, is a gunslinger, an agent of The White and the protagonist of Stephen King's The Dark Tower series.
		Roland is the last surviving gunslinger and is possessed (or, as he describes it himself, "addicted" -- Eddie Dean, an ex-heroin addict and member of Roland's ka-tet, calls Roland a "Tower junkie") by a quest to reach The Dark Tower, the axis upon which infinite numbers of parallel worlds rotate.
		Roland is a 30th-generation descendant of his world's version of King Arthur, referred to in the series as Arthur Eld.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roland_of_Gilead (809 words)

	The Dark Tower (series) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Roland Deschain, son of Steven Deschain, was born in the fictional Land of Gilead.
		Roland is the last gunslinger, charged with finding the Dark Tower (it is unclear if the hope of reversing the erosion of time and the universe that may be solved upon finding it is actually a goal of Roland's or if it is simply finding the Tower he cares about).
		Roland helps Eddie fight off a gang of mobsters for whom he was transporting the cocaine, but not before Eddie discovers that Henry has died from an overdose of heroin in the company of the aforementioned mobsters (after which the mobsters decide to chop off Henry's head).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ka-tet (6829 words)

	The SF Site: Climbing the Tower Part Four: Wizard and Glass
		But it is the intimate campfire tale Roland shares with his companions as they approach a distant emerald palace along Kansas's I-70 prior to their encounter with Flagg, that marks this as one of the most powerful narratives to come from Stephen King's prolific mind.
		At the end of The Waste Lands, Roland, Eddie, Susannah, Jake, and Oy (an intelligent, dog-like creature called a "billy-bumbler") are on a monorail hurtling at nearly 1000 MPH through the desiccated topography southeast of the hulking, attenuated city of Lud, subject to the whims of an insane and suicidal artificial intelligence named Blane.
		Roland is the son of the lord of the Gilead and the Affiliation, a feudal kingdom loosely modeled on the mythological Arthurian Britain.
	www.sfsite.com /columns/climbing05.htm (1743 words)

	Will Napier - Journalism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Roland’s backdrop however is a fantastic landscape that sees no borders of time and space.
		The journey to the Dark Tower is about Roland’s desire, his certainty that reaching the tower is in some way his destiny, just as King’s intention in embarking on the series is to see Roland reach the final book.
		Roland’s ka-tet (those bound by destiny) is introduced in the second book Drawing of the Three.
	home.earthlink.net /~will-napier/darktower.htm (1125 words)

	The SF Site: Climbing the Tower Part Two: The Drawing of the Three
		Roland's power to "draw" turns out to be an unconscious ability to conjure inter-dimensional portals, or "doors" through which Roland is able to make contact with humans in our world, each one at a different temporal point.
		When Roland opens the door, he see the Earth from thousands of feet in the air, and panics before realizing that this is the ground viewed from the interior of a flying machine (an airplane), through the eyes of another entity.
		There is still a minor gulf between Roland's phrases here, and the catchy argot he adopts by the fourth book (which circles around to the revisions in the first), and there are also a few factual details at odds with later decisions, but they're minor things having to do with names and locations.
	www.sfsite.com /columns/climbing03.htm (1771 words)

	washingtonpost.com: The Return of the King
		The primary source is Robert Browning's narrative poem "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came," which provided King with his central motif and a name for his carved-from-granite protagonist: Roland Deschain of Gilead.
		Roland's twin goals are to preserve the tower -- and, by extension, the worlds it supports -- and to climb to the room at the top of that tower, where an unknown fate awaits him.
		Roland himself, accompanied by Eddie Dean, travels to the town of Lowell, Maine, where the border between worlds has grown thin and permeable.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A27485-2004Sep16?language=printer (1134 words)

	Simon & Schuster: Stephen King's The Dark Tower: A Concordance, Volume I (Trade Paperback) - Read an Excerpt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		What their treachery exposes is that the young Roland is driven by ambition, personal glory, and revenge as much as he is by a desire to fulfill his destiny as the last warrior of the White.
		In Roland's map, the hub of the wheel is the Tower, the spokes are the Beams, and the rivets are the Guardians, who are the Portals' sentries.
		Roland, the isolated individual, is a survivor, but he is no more than a fragment of a larger, lost mosaic.
	www.simonsays.com /content/book.cfm?sid=21&pid=424888&agid=2&aid=258100 (4833 words)

	Paul's Dark Tower Page
		Roland is on a quest to reach the Dark Tower, the lynchpin to an infinite number of universes.
		Roland tells them that the day after he became a Gunslinger (detailed in what is probably my favorite part of The Gunslinger), Roland's father sent him and his best friends (and Gunslinger trainees), Cuthbert and Alain, into the west for their protection.
		You see, Roland's society was in the middle of a civil war between the forces of the Gunslingers, the ruling aristocracy and "defenders of the White", and the forces of John Farson, "The Good Man" who had no problem plotting the poisoning of a town's children to serve his own means.
	mypage.siu.edu /prophet6/darktower.html (2082 words)

	Stephen King Audio Books
		The tale of Roland Deschain's relentless quest for the Dark Tower has, the author fears, sorely tried the patience of those who have followed it from its earliest chapters.
		Roland and Eddie are with John Cullum in Maine, in 1977, looking for the site on Turtleback Lane where "walk-ins" have been often seen.
		Roland Deschain and his ka-tet are bearing southeast through the forests of Mid-World, the almost timeless landscape that seems to stretch from the wreckage of civility that defined Roland's youth to the crimson chaos that seems the future's only promise.
	www.stephenkingshop.com /books/king/audio (1818 words)

	The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, Book 7) (ISBN 1880418622): Very Well Said
		Roland is relieved of many of his soul-testing responsibilities (sacrificing his friends, dealing with his foes) by cheap plot devices that cause them to disappear outside of any action of his-- even the Tower itself is made practically irrelevant by a series of contrived events and unimportant characters.
		It was the blood of Roland's hand, united with the petal of a rose from the Fields of Can'-Ka No Rey that sealed his fate, by blinding the Crimson King forever (recall there are several parallels to losing eyes in the story in death, including two robots, Walter, Cuthbert).
		When Roland enters the Tower at the end of this book, it is not the Tower as it is meant to be, it is not the `nexus' of all existence in the sense as we - or he - had envisioned it to be, knew it to be.
	www.verywellsaid.com /titles/the/the-dark-tower-(the-dark-tower,-book-7)-1880418622.php (14745 words)

	CCPL: What We're Reading
		Roland Deschain, the gunslinger, and his ka-tet (companions) are dedicated to pursuing the goal of reaching The Dark Tower with the hope of preventing the ultimate destruction of this world and other parallel worlds by the Crimson King.
		The Breakers’ power is terminated with the destruction of Agul Siento and the ka-tet must save Stephen King (the author) from his very real death in a pedestrian accident that, in reality, almost caused the premature end of The Dark Tower series.
		Ultimately, the ka-tet is destroyed by death and defection, leaving Roland alone to reach his goal, the Dark Tower.
	www.carmel.lib.in.us /cgi-bin/reviews/revitem.cfm?reviewid=5270 (285 words)

	McSweeney's Internet Tendency: The Tale of Gray Dick
		When evening came, Roland Deschain returned on horseback from the Manni village to Eisenhart's Lazy B. He'd spent the afternoon in a long palaver with Henchick, the dinh of the Manni.
		Roland sat behind the ranch-house, listening to the boys shout and the dog bark.
		The other two were pistols of the sort Roland and his friends had called "barrel-shooters" as children, because of the oversized cylinders which had to be revolved with the side of the hand after each shot.
	www.mcsweeneys.net /quarterly/tenteasers/sking.html (951 words)

	King, Stephen : R.F. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		As for the matter of Roland being a true hero, this is very untrue, King demonstrates in The Dark Tower series that he is very "gray" as it was put.
		Roland is another person who is both good and evil, in his youth he bought a prostitute (and is viewed in many societies as wrong or bad), it also seems that he kills without remorse, and feels everything he does is just.
		Roland's last name is Deschain, the reason I know this is because his father's last name is Deschain, and in Wizard and the Glass it says Roland son of Deschain, or something to that effect.
	www.eeggs.com /items/1925.html (6008 words)

	Stephen King The Dark Tower 7
		Roland buried him in the nearby woods, and Irene Tassenbaum later was to plant a rose on the site of his grave.
		Roland told Stephen King after he'd been hit by the van that if she approached him he was not to go with her to the clearing as she was the daughter of Sleep
		Roland told Stephen King after he'd been hit by the van that if she approached him he was not to go with her to the clearing, as she was the daughter of the Moon
	www.horrorking.com /dt7.html (5747 words)

	Amazon.com Books: Books / The Dark Tower (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		From Roland Deschain to the Tick-Tock Man to Sheemie Ruiz, there are many, many characters in Stephen King's Dark Tower series.
		Roland and his ka-tet find themselves protecting a small town at the edge of Thunderclap from the depredations of the mysterious Wolves.
		Here begins Roland's quest to reach the mystical and threatened Dark Tower, the hub of myriad parallel universes, upon which hinges the fate of all existence.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/3368681 (730 words)

	Forums - [ the.stephen-king.net 2.0 ]
		ROLAND DESCHAIN discovers a magic doorway in a desacrated temple that leads to NEW YORk, but SUSAN DEAN is unable to accompany him because she goes into labor.
		One of them is a sixteen year old white girl who was in love with Roland, and pregnant with his child, and the other is a 27ish year old fl lady who is in love with Eddie, and pregnant with his demon-baby.
		And Roland already had the vision that Oy was skewared so when he tells us we should get used to the idea that they might not all make it we can just count Oy out.
	www.stephen-king.net /forums/thread.asp?id=878 (2156 words)

	Ancient Clan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Roland Deschain, the last gunslinger of a world that has moved on, continues his quest for the Dark Tower.
		Roland leaves the mountains and arrives at the Western Sea.
		Roland first draws Eddie Dean, a heroin addict in a great deal of trouble.
	www.ancientclan.com /tinseltown/reviews/thedrawingofthethree.php (203 words)

	Amazon.com: The Dark Tower Gift Collection, Books 1-3: The Gunslinger, The Drawing of The Three, and The Waste Lands: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Roland is sick, and being pursued by carnivorous "lobstrosities." But then he ends up transporting his mind into our world -- specifically, into the minds of junkie smuggler Eddie Dean, and legless civil rights activist Odetta Holmes (and her evil alter ego, Detta).
		Along the way, Roland tells them the story of his first love Susan Delgado, a beautiful girl who was promised to a dirty old man, and how he lost her when he was only fourteen.
		I have struggled to accurately display the story of Roland Deschain, son of steven, last gunslinger of gilead and his dark tower, yet I know of no diction to properly describe it.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1880418401?v=glance (1947 words)

	The Dark Tower: Wizard & Glass (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Pg 192 The letter above the frank was from one Steven Deschain of Gilead, a gunslinger (which was to say a knight, squire, peacemaker, and Baron.
		Pg 597 The gunslinger draws in all his breath and draws together all his force; when he cries his answer to the Turtle, he does so for all the generations of his blood.....
		Pg 693 Roland looked back the way they had come, sleepwalking in their fine red shoes.
	members.aol.com /juttabird/darktower/Page13.html (925 words)

	Every story ends with death / Mortality drives latest book in Stephen King's opus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Just as its hero/anti-hero Roland Deschain of Gilead moves ever closer to a dark tower on the verge of collapse, so do we all inhabit an edifice whose ultimate destruction is inevitable.
		On Susannah's trail are Roland's surrogate son, Jake Chambers, and Father Callahan, the disgraced Catholic priest from "Salem's Lot." Meanwhile, Roland and Susannah's husband, Eddie, travel to Maine in the year 1977.
		And he had moved Roland like a piece on a chessboard: go to Tull, Roland, sleep with Allie, Roland, chase Walter across the desert, Roland.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/06/20/RVGC273SLK1.DTL&type=printable (817 words)

	The Dark Tower
		Roland is the last gunslinger in a world which has moved on (read: which is completely screwed and on an express elevator to hell--going down).
		Then people said Glenn should be Roland, but he's a little on the old side for our taste.
		We saw Roland as much younger (at least before he and Walter had their little...talk).
	www.mindspring.com /~widgett/html/darktower.html (4055 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Stephen King (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The accident, and subsequent hospitilization served as an inspiration for the pilot episode of King's ABC mini-series-turned-full-series, Kingdom Hospital.
		King incorporated his accident into the final novel of his Dark Tower series, in which the hero Roland Deschain and his friends try to stop King from being fatally injured by the van.
		In the story, Roland hypnotized both King and the driver in order to make them forget his appearence.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Stephen_King (2711 words)

	Gilead: Realm of the Gunslingers
		You know it's the 21st century, when the gansters are getting up their own websites to spam each other.
		Nevertheless, most of the respondents -- 52 percent -- said things are going very or fairly well in the country, a statistically similar response (49 percent) to the last time the question was asked in November.
		The data Yahoo gave authorities led to his imprisonment for eight years, -- that would be the second such case involving Yahoo in less than a year (Shi Tao, the Chinese journalist jailed for ten years with Yahoo's help).
	www.thegunslinger.net (789 words)

	GameTrailers.com Forums - Stephen King and Marvel Join Forces (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		I've read all 7 books of the series (actually finishing the 7th right now), and these books are nothing like the other books that Stephen King has written, although ther are many similarities (those who have read the books will now whatt I mean).
		The main hero of these stories, the Gunslinger Roland Deschain, is fucking cool and the world he travels through is so twisted, yet so rich wich strange symbolism and references to the original pieces that inspired King (a 19th-century poem by Robert Browning called "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came").
		Roland Deschain is the ultimate bad-ass, that's all there is to say.
	forums.gametrailers.com /showthread.php?t=18085 (823 words)

	Stephen King delivers final ‘Dark Tower’ book - Books - MSNBC.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In the final stage of his search, Roland Deschain and the ka-tet move toward the ultimate goal — the tower itself.
		His senses were so heightened that he could smell not just roasting flesh but the rosemary with which it had been rubbed; could hear not only the calm rhythm of his breath but the tidal murmur of his blood climbing brainward on one side of his neck and descending heartward on the other.
		In the second before the tapestry to their left was torn aside, Callahan saw its fl joke, what the careless eye would first surely overlook: the roast that was the banquet's main entrée had a human form; the knights and their ladies were eating human flesh and drinking human blood.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6029553 (3302 words)

	Advance Titan Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The novels deliver the tale of Roland Deschain, the last remaining gunslinger in a “world that has moved on,” and his quest to reach and save the Dark Tower, which is the nexus holding together all time and space.
		The fourth volume, “Wizard and Glass,” is largely comprised of a flashback tale concerning Roland’s first and only love, a small-town young lady named Susan Delgado.
		The flashback in “Wizard and Glass” is set after Roland earns his guns in events disclosed in “The Gunslinger,” where a flashback reveals how Roland faces and defeasts his teacher Cort in battle, sacrificing his pet hawk David in the process, to earn his guns.
	www.advancetitan.com /story.asp?story=3057 (1030 words)

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