ccrrick@ucdavis.UUCP (Rick Heli) (09/24/85)
> I think that the blue cavern in which Merlin is imprisoned is > in fact the gemstone of a ring. Also Corwin is not dead, but > is masquerading as Bill, who knows far too much. > Sounds right to me; there is certainly a precedent in Ganelon/Oberon... -- --rick heli (... ucbvax!ucdavis!groucho!ccrrick)
jim@randvax.UUCP (Jim Gillogly) (09/25/85)
>> I think that the blue cavern in which Merlin is imprisoned is >> in fact the gemstone of a ring. Also Corwin is not dead, but >> is masquerading as Bill, who knows far too much. >> > Sounds right to me; there is certainly a precedent in > Ganelon/Oberon... That one bothered me a lot: I think Zelazny didn't know Ganelon was Oberon until a couple of books later. There was too much that didn't fit in Guns of Avalon. I wish Zelazny would plot the whole series before writing the first book ... it seems to have worked well for Tolkien, Eddings (Belgariad), Wolfe (New Sun), and Cook (Black Company). Did anybody else notice that the blue crystal cavern is a parallel with the Arthurian legend? That other Merlin was imprisoned in a crystal cave by Nimue, a sorceress he was teaching, according to one version. -- Jim Gillogly {decvax, vortex}!randvax!jim jim@rand-unix.arpa
chris@ICO.UUCP (10/03/85)
(Hi Jim!) There is actually another Zelazny novel in which he uses the "main character imprisoned in a gem" trick. I refer to Jack Of Shadows in which Shadowjack is imprisioned in a gem that is a pendant around his main rival. I wonder if Merlyn will use the same trick to escape? chris Chris Kostanick decvax!vortex!ism780!ico!chris ucbvax!ucla-cs!ism780!ico!chris Does Curley (of the three stooges) have the Budda nature? Eeeeeb b!