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[camwyn]

daniidebrabant?

I may just possibly be wrong, but I think I may have an idea of what happens to the Ulgos after the Malloreon is over- or at least to that faction of the Ulgos that believes that the caves were not intended for them from the beginning as their permanent home. It's in the early pages of King of the Murgos, when the party stops at Prolgu. Gorim says he's sure that UL will return Relg's son to the caves at the proper time.

Part of me wonders if Relg's son might not speak unto the Ulgos and say to them that UL wishes his son Mara's people to thrive and prosper, which cannot be done when only two people are the foundation of a race; would those who believe they may enter into the sunlight and dwell there all the days of their lives consider moving to Maragor?

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[pandoras-closet.livejournal.com]

It certainly makes more sense than Relg and Tabia repopulating Maragor by themselves.

[camwyn]

Yeah. Mara can cheat as much as he likes when it comes to getting Taiba to push out babies, but when there was still a Marag race, eight out of nine Marag births were female. Granted, Relg is the one providing the chromosomes of this generation- but given Eddingsverse biology and inheritance rules I'm inclined to believe that the Marag pattern is likely to resurface with the males of the next generation producing primarily X chromosomes. Even if the laws against incest were revoked, there's just not going to be enough. So I suspect Relg's first kid is going to suggest to those Ulgos who are willing that they live in Maragor.

[pandoras-closet.livejournal.com]

You're probably right. The book did say that an arrangement between Mara and UL had been worked out.

Sometimes though, I wonder what goes on in Eddings' head. Like Polgara. In the Belgaraid and the Mallorean, she was a wonderful character, but in Polgara the Sorceress, she was, and I don't use the term lightly, a total Mary Sue and made Belgarath and everyone else look like a moron.

[ymfaery]

I wondered about that when I read the Polgara book. Then again, he did co-write it with his wife, right?

[pandoras-closet.livejournal.com]

I think it was in Belgarath the Sorcerer that Eddings said his wife has had a hand in pretty much everything he's written and will write.

At least one of them is a lover of formula though.

[camwyn]

My personal opinion- and this is one I've arrived at after reading Polgara the Sorceress several times and doing the Dance of Fandom Rationalization to the point where my bum nearly fell off- is that a lot of the stuff in Polgara the Sorceress can be excused ICly. I think Polgara made a lot of that stuff up because she was irritated aby the thought of having to go through with the project, and somewhat more imaginative than her father as to methods of getting out of the proper responsibility. I don't think there ever actually WAS a knight she fell in love with among the Wacite Arends, for example- I think she stuck that in there because she didn't want to come off sounding like someone who really had managed to go four thousand years without falling in love at least once.

Polgara's lied before. Anyone who can raise a child without teaching him to read just so that she doesn't have to deal with him going WAH I DON'T WANT TO MARRY THE PERSON IN THE VO MIMBRE ACCORDS is perfectly capable of writing a book full of deception. So naturally Pol sounds like a Sue in Polgara the Sorceress- if she's got to write this damn thing, she might as well write it the way she wished it was!

[pandoras-closet.livejournal.com]

Mmm, I dunno. Polgara does describe herself as very much the wolf and subserviant to Beldaran and Poledra. Belgarath also said several times that it's not in a wolf's nature to lie or decieve.

[batyatoon]

It may not be in a wolf's nature to lie, but it's observably in Polgara's.

She's pretty damn good at it.

[almeda.livejournal.com]

Which books?

[camwyn]

David Eddings' Belgariad and Malloreon series. I read the Belgariad books when I was in fifth grade thanks to a nun who knew I was reading above my age level.

[countgeiger.livejournal.com]

"Where's Brill"

"Learning to fly..."

"How's he doing?"

"Does bouncing count?"

That, or..

"I have a KEY. It works something like THIS.."

[camwyn]

Several of my friends and I, to this day, describe really towering anger simply by saying "Walls, houses, the city of Rak Hagga..."

[not-croaker.livejournal.com]

Ahhh. "Fragile, easily-breakable things..."

[auberus.livejournal.com]

I now feel much less dorky. My mother introduced me to the series when I was around seven or eight, and the books -- as well as the tamuli and the elenium -- have been the source of many of our in-jokes ever since.