i was really upset about the ending making of <PERSON> a prisoner. But, then i realized some details:
He has now the horn and explains he took it from a death <PERSON> (solving <PERSON> promise with <PERSON>). This means: yes, time took a step back, but not only a step back, the world's past changed too. In final chapter's 'three' <PERSON> thinks: "in my dreams the horn was always mine, i should have known this wasn't like this, as mine was lost with <PERSON>, in jericho hill". In the new cycle he has the horn. So... He dreams about his upcoming cycle? What will happen in the dark tower when he salutes it with his horn? (Remember the roses were saluting his passing with the horn sound) His actual sigul is his father's revolver? That would mean that in the next cycle he will have one revolver only, no information is given about it.
Another detail is: in the actual cycle he hasn't the horn maybe because things with <PERSON> never completed 'healed' after what happened with <PERSON>. If he now has the horn, It mostly means he never got in love with <PERSON>. Which actually means he is a less 'serious and robotic' man.
When he enters the first room in the dark rower the faces said: "welcome <PERSON>, the one of many kilometers and many worlds" you can say: oh ok, he has been in many worlds, but <PERSON>, by example, has been too in many worlds but he always is '<PERSON> from new york'. 663
If you use the restart world information card, you can conclude 'multi world rolandS' only have one soul, one soul which <PERSON> confines in different worlds and different rolands.
In the final pages he 'feels the knowledge striking like a hammer, hot as the sun of the desert'. If you have basic knowledge of steel you will know it passes processes of heating and hammering (swords for example). If he is the steel, the one with the hammer in the hand is the dark tower, ergo, gan. Sooo every cycle <PERSON> concludes is one hammering. Maybe i am taking this too literal but totally means: <PERSON> is the gan's (~god?) Tool to save not only the multi world, but his steel which will be hardened to replace him when... I don't know when... But hardening <PERSON> with multiple and different cycles most have a use.
Sorry if bad english, not my first languaje.
I am totally mad about <PERSON> being a prisoner, the history is bad situation, followed by scary situation, next bad situation AGAIN... If people tell me the world is in my hands i totally would anything to restore it, so i don't see this cowboy as a bad man, but the right man in the wrong place.
Relating to the 'transported ones' i dont know, but by deus ex machina they most be the perfect ka tet to take <PERSON> into the dark tower.
Forgot something, when any character says: "oh this is like this - how do you know it? - i just know it" it is a 50/50 chance it is because he/she is a gunslinger or because in another cycle learned what will happen in the hard way. Take <PERSON>'s good bye as example, she knew it would be bad if she gets to the dark tower, maybe her dreams but it would be just a clue about multicycle learning. 773