(Never watched the video version of GOT, never will. I can only HOPE that GRRM is continuing the tradition and will actually finish the books at some point in the not too distant future. Certainly NOT worthy of the respect and deep study warranted by Tolkien's masterworks.but better than some others, who, as you say, did not escape the Master's influence. etc.), but there was enough action to satisfy for a casual reading - bathroom or beach books, if you will. Naturally, they are very reminiscent of Tolkien's character types (A were-bear, a Dark Lord in a tower, etc. I did enjoy the Eddings books, if only because his characters are likable, flawed and appropriately snarky when the situation demands. Lazy? Quite possible, although without knowing his mindset, not proven, IMHO). (And thereby there was no need to write entire sections of the second set from scratch. Having written 5 books about Garion and his quest to control a certain talisman which will destroy all goodness and light if permitted to fall into the wrong hands (sound familiar?), he proceeded to write ANOTHER 5 books about a quest to control ANOTHER talisman, and makes the contextual case that the 2 talismans are so intertwined that events surrounding them tend to repeat themselves. Squint - no argument from me about the repetition - in fact, Eddings actually uses it as a literary device. However, there are many more parallels that can be made, and I cannot wait to read what others unearth. For both Frodo and Garion, the presence of a rock-solid faithful friend is key to eventual success.
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Durning is common sense, courage, self-effacing, with a hidden streak of a poetic nature, just like the orphan Frodo's companion, Sam. His aunt is the chief cook on a prosperous farm, and here Garion is watched over by the very embodiment of Sendarian values, the smith, Durning. The main character, Garion, spends the first part of his life here, being inculcated in all those values as he is an orphan being raised by distant kin. Woorworking, farming, smithing, large meals and many of them, all in all, it sounds very much like tall hobbits. The Sendars, for example, are presented as honest, hardworking, eminently practical folk who are skilled in all the homey things that keep an agricultural society productive and content with their lot. While there are no elves or orcs in the Belgariad, there are (to me) clear indications that Eddings drew on more than one Tolkienian prototype in populating his world. Even at that first reading, without the rest of the story available, I kept 'whiffing' hints of Middle-earth, especially in the characters' racial descriptions. Has anyone run across the fantasy works of David Eddings - mainly the Belgariad and the Malloreon? I read Pawn of Prophecy when it was first released, then, as is often the case, had to wait for the subsequent books to be published.
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