Eddings series

Hello people's. Today I'm writing about a book series I recently finished. Here it goes.

The series I finished is called The Tamuli. If you've read some of my other blogs you know that one of my favorite authors is David Eddings because of his Belgariad books that I read as a kid. Well after he wrote the Belgariad and the Mallorean he started writing more fantasy like the Elenium and The Tamuli. The first two and the last two are both series that occur chronologically 1 after the other, the last two series are in a different universe then the first two. So wanting to read more David Eddings I got both of those series and quickly finished the Elenium and then The Tamuli. After reading all four of these series you notice all the similarities between them and the story telling pattern that Eddings has for fantasy. In all of the series the central conflict revolves around an extremely powerful artifact. In the Belgariad/Mallorean it's the orb of Aldur and in the Elenim/Tamuli its Bhelliom. Eddings has also listed out different backgrounds that a hero in fantasy can have, in the Belgariad/Mallorean the hero is Garion and he starts the book as a young boy who is unskilled and uneducated in what's happening so he finds out about the world he's in along with the reader. In the Elenium/Tamuli the hero is Sparhawk and Sparhawk is already a man who is educated and is skilled so it's harder to get the reader to learn about the world because Sparhawk already knows about it so people aren't constantly explaining things to him. There's also a good guy sorcerer and a traveling party of people that accompany the hero. In the Belagariad/Mallorean the sorcerer is Belgarath and Polgara and in the Elenium/Tamuli the sorcerer is Sephrenia. The party the hero travels with in the Belgariad/Mallorean is a group of people that fit into certain roles in fantasy like the huge Viking character, the witty thief, the man on horseback etc. Following Sparhawk is a slightly less diverse group of four Knights who have to be strategic as well as physically powerful, Sephrenia, a smart practical squire, and a thief or two. Both universes also have their own religion and gods and goddesses. In the first the gods are UL, Aldur, Torak, Belar, Chaldan, Issa, Nedra, and Mara and two different near omnipotent "destinies" fight for control over the universe. In the second universe the religion is a lot more complex. So in this universe nearly every culture has its own religion with its own gods and almost all of them are real and interact with each other. The largest one is the "Elene faith which has one God and many similarities to Christianity, there's also Styricum with has a thousand younger gods and who knows how many elder gods, the Tamul faith which also has many gods, and at least 3 other cultures which their own one God. And there I just listed the ones that are real. There are also two similar forces to the first universe which are Bhelliom, the good guy, and Klæl the very very bad guy, and both of these forces fight over many worlds that they create.

So there are some of the similarities between the two universes. Bye.


- By Ashton