Talk:Belgarath

Village Name vs. boy name
According to the book, Belgarath came from a village named Gara, and after he was orphaned, he was named Garath by the villagers. In the language spoken at the time that meant "of the town Gara". Some insist that the village was named Garath, and I have corrected this in the article before, only for my edit to be reverted/backedited very quickly. --Edgjerp 07:28, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

a closer look at the history showed me that reverting my earlier edit actually was correct, if not the best solution. I have now added a notice of the origins of the name Garath.--Edgjerp 16:42, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Im not really sure where to put this but haveing just read Belgarath the Sorcerer i not iced that he was not a desciple of aldur until a few years after he originally learned sorcery, it also says this in The Belgariad, which is different to what the article says. Someone should look into it. Dj26792 01:03, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Tone of Article
Just a comment for those of you who are writing this article, you occasionally let the summary take the tone of Belgarath's narration, rather than a scholarly article. The fact that (Bel)Garath was leaning back and "feeling sorry for himself" is a speculation, albeit a fairly substantiated one, and shouldn't be the subject of this sort of article.

Casual Murders
Removed the section referring to 'Casual Murders'. I don't recall any mention of Belgarath casually murdering anyone (i.e. as opposed to self defense, retribution, etc). Mikejstevenson 18:19, 18 October 2006 (UTC)


 * He did. See Belgarath the Sorcerer during the part when he's arranging all of the marriages, he mentions that he did commit a few murders, and they were not necessarily self-defense oriented or retributive in nature.  He does mention though when he goes to "chat" with Ctuchik in Rak Cthol that he did not necessarily approve of casual murders in general (in explaining why he didn't drop the sentry off of the parapet).  It's tough to say where his position or actual actions were on the matter, as he often exaggerated things in Belgarath the Sorcerer, but I'd imagine that there were a few so-called "casual murders", although he probably had reasons for them. –Pakman044 04:25, 4 June 2007 (UTC)


 * I don't think anything Belgarath did was casual - especially murder. Dreadlocke  ☥  06:36, 11 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Belgarath sort of dissaproved of most of his more serious vices when done for sport/amusement, instead of out of a practical need. Belgarath did not commit unnecessary murders, but he certainly had no reservations about killing when the situation called for it.  Polgara's reaction in Belgarad the Sorcerer to Belgarath's choice not to kill the Murgo questioning after Polgara soon after she had taken charge of the Rivan line suggests that Belgarath's usual course of action (outside of Sendaria) would be to kill an inconvenient Murgo.


 * I'd have to side with Pakman044 on this issue. He did state that he wasn't fond of killing, it was sometimes necessary to do so to keep things in the prophesy in line. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hourick (talk • contribs) 02:05, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Killing because it was necessary to keep the prophesy on track wouldn't be a "casual murder". Dreadstar  †  07:35, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Granted. He wasn't doing as a hobby, but that was he he described it. --Hourick 11:38, 8 September 2007 (UTC)