Re: Reading the Belgariad Again

The other word for word shocker was treating Tolnedra "like a defeated 
enemy" - both in QoS and PtS. It really annoyed me DR tried to sell
Polgara 
as sympathetic to the Tolnedrans immediately after the Battle of Vo
Mimbre.

The reread of Belgariad is going great. At what point do you stop? I'm 
thinking after BtS or after the Mallorean.

Another thought has occurred - in the Belgariad, use of sorcery appears 
limitless (look what Belgarion did in Salmissra's palace). I recall the 
Mallorean seemed to make it seem very limited and that Belgarion really 
wouldn't be progressing past killing the bad people with his sword.

Carl :-)


"Gwydion" <gwyd-news@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Recently, a script from Ce` arrived, in which they said:
>
> : I don't think I'd be able to read the scene with Ce'Nedra throwing
> : coins into the grass without fuming and wanting to go compare it to
the
> : scene in Althalus to see if they *are* actually word for word.
>
> Since the scene is purloined wholesale from one or both of twelfth
> century French love-poetry and/or an incident during the Roman civil
> war which ended the Republic and began the reign of Julius Caeser,
> it wouldn't surprise me if they're pretty close.
>
> ~R
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