MERCEDES-LACKEY Digest 2390

Topics covered in this issue include:

  1) mothers
	by "Hill, Susan" <susan.hill-+AT+-weyerhaeuser.com>
  2) Re: mothers
	by Eeyore9051-+AT+-aol.com
  3) Re: mothers
	by "Runewind" <dennis-+AT+-jmf.org.ph>
  4) German Mothers: I'm Back!
	by Nuri-chan <songjewel-+AT+-yahoo.com>

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Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 16:54:12 -0700
From: "Hill, Susan" <susan.hill-+AT+-weyerhaeuser.com>
To: "'mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk'" <mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk>
Subject: mothers
Message-ID: <872A9D7CC09CD11188CE00805FBB042E05BFFF0C-+AT+-emswwc7.weyer.com>

hmmm..
You're on to something here - very little in mother - daughter
relationships.

Only daughter-parent thing I can see is Natoli and her Herald dad. (brain
fart here.)

Come to think, there are very few "moms" featured as main characters
anywhere in any of her books. Wonder if thats a subject for Misty and her
shrink. <grin>

-Susan


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Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 21:44:23 EDT
From: Eeyore9051-+AT+-aol.com
To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk
Subject: Re: mothers
Message-ID: <db.90c71c8.26df1277-+AT+-aol.com>


Truthfully I've always found Talia and Tarma the most motherly figures.   
Tarma adopted all of the children of other mercenaries as well as all of her 
students.  Talia at the age of 13 or so adopted Elspeth.  Elsepth herself 
says that she always thought of Talia of more than a mom then Seleny (sp) in 
the Winds Triolgy.  

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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 13:11:47 +0000
From: "Runewind" <dennis-+AT+-jmf.org.ph>
To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk
Subject: Re: mothers
Message-ID: <MDAEMON-F200008311306.AA063595MD45340-+AT+-amdg.com.ph>

You have Winterhart and Zhaneel as mothers in The White Gryphon 
and The Silver Gryphon.  And there was a healthy mother-daughter 
relationship in Sacred Ground.

It's too bad this area hasn't been developed more.  I think it would 
provide greater depth to her stories.


Runewind


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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 13:26:03 -0700 (PDT)
From: Nuri-chan <songjewel-+AT+-yahoo.com>
To: MLML <mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk>
Subject: German Mothers: I'm Back!
Message-ID: <20000831202603.22823.qmail-+AT+-web1604.mail.yahoo.com>

Heyla list-sibs! Remember me? Songjewel? I have a
new addy I'll be subscribing with shortly. It's
been at least a month since my last post, 
because of moving into school and everything.
Before anyone says 
anything, no, I'm not in college, it's a boarding
school for 11th and 
12th grade. I don't even remember the last
conversations I read. So 
TECHNICALLY, I haven't been lurking, right?? I
just haven't been 
reading the mail...^^; Anyway, I have some stuff
to say and I hope 
I'll be able to keep up more now that I'm all
established. (Long 
weekend this weekend! Yay!)

First:
All hope goes out to Lady Freedom Justice Walker
and her baby; Get well!

Next:
>>Leon writes:
Ulrich is a common German name, I think. It
appears as a Dutch name too, 
for example we have a soccer player with Ulrich
as first name. 
Come to think of it, lots of topographical names
in Karse (not any other 
characters' names, AFAIK - I've read ML's books
chronologically until 
Storm Breaking, which I'm reading now) have a
German sound to them - 
couldn't give you an example right now, though.
<<

He he...My new room mate's last name is Ulrich!
My first thoughts were 
"Wow, I have a Karsite room mate!!" Of course,
she's NOT from Karse, 
but it's still pretty cool.

And...
On the Moms thing:

OWL AND BURNING SPOILERS!!!!!!







I think that besides Lady Treesa (Van's Mom), the
latest books that 
she's written have been slowly incorporating
them. Look at the Owl 
books; Darien's Mom is a vivid part of his
memory, and when he finds 
her and his dad, it's mostly her that is written
about (conversations 
and stuff). Also, Lan's mother was active with
him, she took care of 
him when he was sick from his burning headaches,
went to see him in 
Healer's, etc.








END SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!





In the Tayledras clans, Firefrost is the only old
woman that stuck out,
but there weren't all that many YOUNG women,
either. Dawnfire, and maybe
 some in the Owl books...can't think of any other
names right now. It 
seems like the Hawkbrothers are mostly male
characters in the books. 
There haven't really been any main female
Tayledras characters.

Now the kal'edain (I have NO idea how to spell
that. I'll find out 
later.) On the other hand had many female
characters. Winterhart, 
Zhaneel, That Healer I can't remember, Blade,
Nightwind, etc. We 
always seem to leave out that trilogy in our
discussions, so I thought 
I'd bring it up. Winterhart, for example was an
active mother. She 
fussed about Blade a lot!

~Nuri-chan a.k.a. Songjewel



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