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From the author of Neverness comes a powerful new epic fantasy series. The Ea Cycle is as rich as Tolkien and as magical as the Arthurian myths. The world of Ea is an ancient world settled in eons past by the Star People. However, their ancestors floundered, in their purpose to create a great stellar civilisation on the new planet: they fell into moral decay. Now a champion has been born who will lead them back to greatness, by means of a spiritual - and adventurous - quest for Ea's Grail: the Lightstone. His name is Valashu Elahad, and he is destined to become King. Blessed (or cursed?) with an empathy for all living things, he will lead his people into the lands of Morjin, into the heart of darkness, wielding a magical sword called Alkadadur, there to recover the mythical Lightstone and return in triumph with his prize. But Morjin is not to be vanquished so easily...… (meer)
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As much as it pains me to say this, given how much I love Neverness, this series is perilously close to being unreadable. Zindell clearly loves Lord of the Rings, and is seemingly incapable of breaking free from its orbit. The story is terribly derivative, and while his uniquely powerful and gentle take on morality and obligation could add an interesting spin to the material, his heroes and villains end up falling into the same trap of flattened, stark morality that weakened Tolkien's work at times. In the end, we're given an interesting hero from an interesting family who has nothing to do but endure a series of horrifying mishaps, and thus be harrowed into something approaching a pure instrument of fate -- which is to say, a cross between Frodo Baggins and Mallory Ringess (the hero of Neverness and its sequels).
I couldn't make it past the second (very wordy) book in the series. It's possible that after the near-endless series of crises that characterize the story to that point things ease up and don't wallow endlessly in melodrama, but I was pretty disheartened and disinclined to put any more effort into the series. If you like Terry Brooks and David Eddings, you may enjoy this, but fans of action may be put off by the interior nature of some of the characters, and fans of Zindell's more successful works may well be put off by the overwrought black and white nature of what's on offer here. ( )
Een stevige rugwind bracht ons na een dag en een nacht goed doorvaren over het Drakenkanaal naar Surrapam.
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Ik zou de koude adem van al diegenen die me waren voorgegaan, door me heen laten stromen; ik zou mijn vurige dromen dromen en mijn belofte uitspreken ten overstaan van de sterren: dat de duisternis zou worden bedwongen, dat de mens zich zou verheffen op vleugels van licht, dat de Lichtsteen ooit zou worden teruggebracht naar dat stralende, lichtende oord waar hij zijn oorsprong had.
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This is Book 1 Part 2 of the EA Cycle. The original all-in-one Book 1 was called "The Lightstone". It was later split into two volumes as "The Lightstone: The Ninth Kingdom" and "The Lightstone: The Silver Sword" (UK editions), and into "The Lightstone" and "The Silver Sword" (US editions). Please keep this Book 1 Part 2 and the Book 1 Part 1 separate from the all-in-one entry.
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From the author of Neverness comes a powerful new epic fantasy series. The Ea Cycle is as rich as Tolkien and as magical as the Arthurian myths. The world of Ea is an ancient world settled in eons past by the Star People. However, their ancestors floundered, in their purpose to create a great stellar civilisation on the new planet: they fell into moral decay. Now a champion has been born who will lead them back to greatness, by means of a spiritual - and adventurous - quest for Ea's Grail: the Lightstone. His name is Valashu Elahad, and he is destined to become King. Blessed (or cursed?) with an empathy for all living things, he will lead his people into the lands of Morjin, into the heart of darkness, wielding a magical sword called Alkadadur, there to recover the mythical Lightstone and return in triumph with his prize. But Morjin is not to be vanquished so easily...
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Op de schouders van prins Valashu Elahad rust het lot van zijn wereld. Anders dan zijn landgenoten is hij een man van vrede. Het is niet het enige dat hem anders maakt: hij is gezegend - of vervloekt - met de gave om in de harten van anderen te kijken en hun diepste emoties te ervaren.
Val en zijn vrienden zoeken een legendarische graal om de vrede te doen terugkeren. Maar ook de gevreesde Morjin jaagt op deze Lichtsteen en hij ontziet niets en niemand.
Met het magische zwaard Alkaladur weet Val telkens tijd te winnen. Maar hoe lang kan het duren voordat de Lichtsteen in handen valt van de vijand?
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I couldn't make it past the second (very wordy) book in the series. It's possible that after the near-endless series of crises that characterize the story to that point things ease up and don't wallow endlessly in melodrama, but I was pretty disheartened and disinclined to put any more effort into the series. If you like Terry Brooks and David Eddings, you may enjoy this, but fans of action may be put off by the interior nature of some of the characters, and fans of Zindell's more successful works may well be put off by the overwrought black and white nature of what's on offer here. (