From: p9b3@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (Dan Fleet)
Subject: Re: Domes of Fire (POSSIBLE SPOILER)
Organization: University of New Brunswick
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 15:33:48 GMT


What follows is a discussion of "Domes of Fire", a new book by Eddings that
takes place after "The Elenium".

THIS POSTING MIGHT BE CONSIDERED TO CONTAIN SPOILER INFORMATION




























In article <8677@dirac.physics.purdue.edu> millerbe@bohr.physics.purdue.edu (Barry E. Miller) writes:
>
>I just finished reading "Domes Of Fire" and I must say that I
>really enjoyed the book.  For some reason, I did not care for
>the cover of the book, but that's not important.

 The cover was by Larry Elmore, and though it looked nice, it didn't
 seem to fit in with the story at all.  I liked Parkinson's covers on the
 Elenium better.  (Note that Elmore's Sparhawk doesn't even have a broken
nose... or black armor, for that matter).

>I didn't hear any mention of the rings Sparhawk and Ehlana have.
>Do they still have them or did I forget that they got rid of them?

 From what I can remember, Sparhawk gave Ehlana HIS ring, and kept HERS.
 (This is how Ehlana considered Sparhawk to have proposed marriage to her).

 As far as I know, Ehlana still has hers, and Sparhawk still has his.
 (Which makes it a GOOD THING (tm) that Ehlana just HAPPENS to be in Daresia
  with Sparhawk....)  
>
>How come the other members of the party that knew Flute do not
>recognize her as Danae? Is she purposely using her powers to keep
>them from noticing?

 Well, she probably is encouraging people not to notice, but she is mainly
acting like a 6 year old, not like Flute.  (Mind you, she is acting like
an incredibly intelligent 6 year old, but anyway).  Also, Danae doesn't look
like Flute, except for the age, and her rosebud mouth.  Danae has some features
of an Elene, and her hair color is different, etc.  Flute is a different
incarnation (avatar?) of Aphrael, and looks different.

 for that matter, Flute and Danae can be together in the same place at
the same time.  (If Aphrael wants).  That would make people think that
Flute and Danae are different people.

>Nothing really happened in the book. No great battles or anything,
>but I feel like they are setting the stage for more intrigue than
>Eddings has used before.  Who are the Shining Ones?? Where are
>the Cyrga (?) hiding? How are the Troll-Gods able to use their 
>powers when they are supposedly trapped in Bhelliom?

 This is true...I liked the book, but it defenitely was just an introduction.
 It contained enough Classic Eddings to keep me laughing, though.

 I felt that this book was primarily to set up the adventure, introduce new
characters, and start the mystery.  Which is exactly what the first book
in a series is supposed to do.  It was extremely well done, IMHO.
                        
 The only gripe I have is that in setting up the story, I feel that Eddings
 negelected his characters somewhat.  Eddings uses a large, LARGE party
of protaganists, and often seems to forget some of them, hving them pop
up only when necessary.  In particular, I felt that the other Knights
(Tynian, Bevier, Ulath, etc) were glossed over more than in the previous 
series.  It seems that in this series, the "real heroes" are Sparhawk,
Ehlana, Danae, Talen and Sephrenia.  Other new characters (e.g. Khalad)
didn't get as developed as they could have, IMHO.

>Did anyone notice that now that Kurik is dead, his son just took
>over his character? It's like Kurik didn't die, just changed his
>name to the practical Durnik,..I mean Khalad. (I think that's his
>name.)

Yeah, but remember that Khalad was trained from childhood by Kurik.  It 
stands to reason that he would be similar.  I think that we'll see some
differences between Khalad and Kurik, however.  Khalad doesn't seem to be
as gruff, for one thing.


>
>Barry
>millerbe@bohr.physics.purdue.edu
>
>"Icy calm, Mr. Steele" L. Holt 
>

 Now here's something.  Is the Styric wizard Zalasta good or evil?
 (remembering Danae's feelings of wrongness, and Ehlana's inital dislike
of the man...and his "overacted" show during the Troll fight...

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Dan Fleet is p9b3@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca
University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick (duh!) CANADA


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