David Eddings' Belgariad series in relation to Sorceror's Stone

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A friend gave me the first book in David Eddings' Belgariad series 
for Christmas (by the way, the first 70 pages are very good), and I 
was struck by a certain quote in the Prologue because it reminded me 
so much of the Sorceror's Stone.
Here it is: "'I may not touch it [the Orb of Aldur, which Torak has 
stolen],' he said, 'lest it destroy me.  Once it welcomed the touch 
of man or God, but its will hardened when Torak raised it against its 
mother.  It will not be used so again.  It reads our souls.  *Only 
one without ill intent, who is pure enough to take it and convey it 
in peril of his life, with no thought of power or possession, may 
touch it now.*"
Maybe it's just because I was reading the Sorceror's Stone last 
night, but the resemblance, to me at least, is uncanny.  Anyway, I 
just thought I'd bring that up for discussion.  And if anyone's 
finished the series and noticed other things like that, feel free to 
bring it up ... just don't give away too much of the plot. :)

- Irene
"That girl has got to get her priorities straight!"