On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 15:55:28 -0600, you wrote: >On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 03:48:06PM -0500, Chris Turkel <zizban at adelphia.net> wrote: >> On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 03:40 PM, lazarus wrote: >> >On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 12:22:29 -0800 (PST), you wrote: >> >>Ruhlen, Rachel Louise (UMC-Student) writes: >> >> This falls in the same category as the "Orlaan/Loraan" controversy. >> >>_I_ >> >> still don't believe there's no connection! >> >>Note that, in _Taltos_, Vlad talks about a Jhereg named Rolaan. I >> >>think Steve just likes the sound of those phonemes. >> >>rone >> >Also, names repeat in the real world, in every culture, but for some >> >reason readers want every character ever mentioned in a fantasy world >> >to have a unique name. >> >How many guys named Bob or Steve or Jeff have you had working for you? >> >At one point, my entire sales staff was made up of Chris's and >> >Randy's. Drove the central office crazy, of course. >> You are correct and a lot of writers miss this point. A good example is >> Robert Jordan's "Wheel of Time" books. Ten volumes, I don't think a >> name is repeated once. Its like everyone on the planet has a unique >> name. > >The question with Jordan isn't so much whether names repeat, or >whether the bit character mentioned in one paragraph in book 6 as >coming from Tear and having blond hair is the same bit character >mentioned in passing in book 10 without any screen time as being >brown haired and coming from Murandy, only in disguise, or >whether Jordan has simply made another mistake, or if they are >perhaps two different people. > >There have certainly been instances where the same character has >appeared under other names, in disguise; where two different >characters have had the same name but different characteristics; >and where Jordan mistakes one character for another. Note to self: Stay away from the Wheel of Time....... -- lazarus "Therefore, my Harry, Be it thy course to busy giddy minds with foreign quarrels; that action, hence borne out, may waste the memory of the former days." -- King Henry IV, Part ii Act 4, Scene 5