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| 1. You start naming your pets after the characters. |
| 2. You start naming your children after the characters. |
| 3. You paint a round rock "the size of a child's heart" blue, and warn family members that only you can touch it. |
| 4. You wonder why Silk lied about his age in King of the Murgos. |
| 5. You spend an hour after reading each of the following: the Belgariad, the Malloreon, Belgarath the Sorcerer, and Polgara the Saorceress, to calculate each character's age. |
| 6. You recorded each year the characters were born. |
| 7. Your mom faints after seeing that your beautiful black hair now sports a white lock just above your left brow. |
| 8. You hand sew little medieval costumes, and steal your little sisters Barbies, so you now have all the characters sitting on the top of your bookshelf. |
| 9. You wonder why Barak's son Unrak was growing a beard at age 9. |
| 10. For Halloween you dress up as one of the characters in one of the many books. |
| 11. You gather your Will right before the artificial volcanoe in Las Vegas erupts and pretend to be Polgara distracting the Gromlins. |
| 12. You write a six page report on the Will and the Word for your English term paper. |
| 13. You start thinking "Well they made Xena Warrior Princess, how would MGM feel about Polgara the Sorceress!". |
| 14. You realize that Star Wars was a great series of movies that will be getting prequils so the Bel/Mal and it's prequils will be a great success. |
| 15. You watch hundreds of Discovery Channel specials on Wolves in order to memorize all of their physical characteristics--- and then prepare to change form. |
| 16. You see someone that you've been avoiding, and you try to put them to sleep with your Will so you could sneak past. |
| 17. You learn to play a set of shepards pipes. |
| 18. Your mother threatens to confiscate all of your Eddings books if you sigh and ask "Why me?" just one more time. |
| 19. You take sign language courses in order to be more like Silk. |
| 20. You spend the day comparing a world map to the world map in the begining of Belgarath in hopes to find similarities. |
| 21. You petition to have your hometown renamed Cimmura. |
| 22. You insist on calling your uncle, who owns a farm, Faldor. |
| 23. Your boyfriend dumps you after getting fed up with you always talking about someone named Berit. |
| 24. You and your other Eddings fan friends debate on who would win in a fight between Garion and Sparhawk. |
| 25. You grow your short black hair down to your shoulders, and take fencing lessons, in hopes of becoming more like Sarabian. |
| 26. You are the proud owner of the original 1984 release of "The Belgariad: Part One". |
| 27. You buy both the hard cover and the paperback release of every book. |
| 28. You start to celebrate Erastide. |
| 29. You try to get into fights so you'll break your nose and look more like Sparhawk. |
| 30. You start calling everyone "neighbor". |
| 31. You ditch school one day and try to find your town's version of Platime. |
| 32. You realize that everyone of the titles in the Malloreon has "of" in it. |
| 33. You find the references to gemstones in the titles of the Elenium funny. |
| 34. You get grounded for calling your mom "little mother" constantly. |
| 35. The guy named Garion at your school is scared of you because you keep telling him that there already is a wife chosen for him. |
| 36. You spend hours walking back and forth trying to perfect the swishing of your hips. |
| 37. You are scared of orange lava lamps because it makes you think of the Sardinion. |
| 38. You wonder if Liselle and Silk will have a boy or a girl. |
| 39. You know for a fact that David Eddings, and not Leigh, created the Gods' names. |
| 40. You hunt all the candle stores near you looking for a blue rose shaped one. |
| 41. You start calling your grandfather "Old Wolf". |
| 42. You pick your online handle and passwords from Eddings books. |
| 43. You realize that every single Nyissan name has the letters in the name "Issa" in them. |
| 44. You finish a series and start to miss the characters. |
| 45. You find yourself bellowing "Torak's Teeth" at the top of your lungs when something Really ticks you off. |
| 46. You dig through all the books of the Bel./Mal. so that you can compile a complete copy of the Mrin Codex and try to understand the Prophecy and figure out the future. |
| 47. You tell your teacher the advantages with learning languages by magic. |
| 48. You watch Star Wars and gets upset when you see that Obi-Wan is not using the Will and the Word. |
| 49. You compare the Bible with another religious book to find the differences, just to find out the future of the Earth. |
| 50. You search through all the forests in your town in hope to find some trolls to kill. |
| 51. You go to a fancy-dress ball dressed like Elysoun, and even if all the boys looks at you, you keep searching for Beril. |
| 52. When you move into a new house you look for some boiling pitch and catapults so that you can defend it from enemies.. |
| 53. You refer to a crooked highway as "having more twists and turns than a Tolnedran trade agreement." |
| 54. You arrive to school just to find your teacher dump your 20-paged report about the differences between sorcery and magic. |
| 55. You go around telling people that it's only a matter of time before the world will crack in two prophecys. |
| 56. You make yourself a silver necklace with a wolf, an owl or a tree on it, and when your mother tells you to take it off, you find out you can't. |
| 57. You see the shadow of a Grolim your whole life. |
| 58. Someone talks about that show on TV about wolves, and you ask them if they saw Belgarath. |
| 59. You refuse to wear clothes in other colours than blue. |
| 60. You refuse to wear other colours than black (Grolims only). |
| 61. You talk about important wars in school, and you wonder why your teacher doesn't say something about the battle of Vo Mimbre. |
| 62. You wonder why Torak didn't wake up during the second world war. |
| 63. When you inquire at pet stores about small, friendly, highly poisonious snakes who might be looking for a soft, warm perfumed bower to reside in. |
| 64. When you go into cutlery shops looking for Ulgo knives. |
| 65. When you start dating people who look like the characters from the Bel/Mal series. |
| 66. When you inquire at a local community college about Nadrak dancing lessons. |
| 67. You learn how to ride horses since all David Eddings characters are good at it. |
| 68. ...all dogs are scared of you, because you think that every dog belongs to Torak and have to be killed. |
| 69. ...you call all old men with white beard "Beloved and Eternal". |
| 70. ...someone compares sorcery and magic, and you refuse to talk to them anymore. |
| 71. ...you refuse to see "Ivanhoe", just because they're going to kill Rebecca for being a witch. |
| 72. When instead of EKG, MRI, TD, FG,and RBI, you talk about PoP, SoK, DLoK, DoF, tRC and tHC. |
| 73. You add the prefix Bel or Pol to your name. |
| 74. One of your friends turn to you and says,"Yes, Aunt Pol.". |
| 75. You read all of Bel/Mal again to make a list of all the toxins from Nyissa mentioned. |
| 76. You find yourself buying the clothings which you could imagine, that someone of the characters would wear. |
| 77. You start taking photos of those people who look like the characters. |
| 78. You send e-mail to almost every Eddings-fan you can possibly find. |
| 79. You print every page concerning Eddings and his books. |
| 80. You stop talking regularly and just say "Errand". |
| 81. You use your mom's curling irons to burn a whit circle into the palm of your hand. |
| 82. You call your sister the Child of Dark, and start to beat her up. |
| 83. You draw a pentagram in the dirt and see if a demon materialises. |
| 84. You replace "Sir" or "Madam" with "Margrave". |
| 85. You tell your friends that your blond headed little brother will be the new God of Angarak. |
| 86. You start giving your friends prophetic names like the Guide, or the Man with Two Lives. |
| 87. You try to split the world in half with a blue easter egg that looks like the Orb. |
| 88. You put Kal in front of your parent's name. |
| 89. You try to talk with the Prophecy inside your head. |
| 90. You try to speak the language of the wolves with your dog. |
| 91. You try to talk to birds. |
| 92. You blindfold yourself so you can see the "other sight" clearer. |
| 93. You start crying every single time you get to the part where Ce'Nedra sees Geran's footprints in the library at Ashaba. |
| 94. You root for Flute to get a pet whale. |
| 95. You think of Krager every time you see a wino. |
| 96. You know that Belgarath has hair in his ears and why he prefers to leave it there. |
| 97. You start pretending that your ordinary copper pennies are of red Angarak gold. |
| 98. You start greeting all people with the question: "What kept you?". |
| 99. A sudden idea wakes you up in the night and you rush into your little daughters room in order to check her feet for grass spots. |
| 100. You begin referring to yourself as "One" and use phrases like "one does one's best.". |
| 101. You find yourself looking at the sky and muttering "Alorns!" when someone aggravates you. |
| 102. You add Bel(or Pol) to your name and tell your friends you're a sorcerer(ess). |
| 103. You rename the icons on your Windows desktop like this: "MyComputer -> The Hall of the Rivan King"; "Network Neighbourhood -> Drasnian Intelligence"; "MyDocuments -> Mrin Codex" and "Recycle bin -> The Bore..". |
| 104. When travelling through an ancient oak forest, you always take chocolate with you. |
| 105. You become a Hollywood producer in order to script out and make the Elenium & Tamuli into blockbuster movies.. |
| 106. You start calling everyone 'dorlin', and ye caint hep it iffen thay aint no gud figgerin' whut it wuz ya wuz a sayin', innywaze! |
| 107. You shave your entire head, except a singel lock in the center of your head, to be more like Hettar. |
| 108. You can recite (and draw) Garion's family tree. |
| 109. You fight with your friends about the pronunciation of Belgarath. |
| 110. Most of these YKYRTMEW can be applied to you. |
| 111. You understand most of the references in these YKYRTMEW and you think that they're funny |
| 112. You find a necklace with a tree on it and convince yourself you can talk to Polgara & Co. with it. |
| 113. You draw on your hand with liquid paper and pretend it's the silvery white mark and that you're the heir to the Rivan Throne |
| 114. You spend hours wondering after you've finished reading Queen Of Sorcery what the picture is actually on Garion's amulet. |
| 115. You start putting Bel or Pol in front of your name. |
| 116. You actually tell your friends there is a word called nervouser, and that Garion made it up. |
| 117. I tried to work out how much money Polgara has, in the excess of billions... |
| 118. You wonder what on earth Liselle was thinking when she married Silk since there is about a 30 year age difference. |
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