When evening came, Thomas Covenant sat on his balcony to watch the sun set behind the Westron Mountains. Though summer was hardly past, there was a gleam of white snow on many of the peaks. As the sun dropped behind them, the western sky shone with a sharing of cold and fire. White silver reflected from the snow across the bottom of a glorious sky, an orange-gold gallant display sailing with full canvas over the horizon.
On the plus side, Donaldson is a dab hand at painting a scenic backdrop.
Given that Donaldson (in his own words ref 'EpicFantasy pdf') defines all external characters and events in fantasy as personifications of the character's inner struggles* - perhaps this paragraph expresses Covenant's struggle between his usual chaos and his unrealised serenity.
*Or more broadly, all the good characters, features and events of 'the Land,' are unrealised goods in Covenant, and all evils are expressions of his own evil, magnified and personified.
To the extent that he fights the evils that plague the Land, is the extent to which he fights his own evil.
It's a pity that he is an unrepentant rapist who has not sought justice for Lena.
