Enchanters' End Game - David Eddings

I know comparisons to Tolkien are an ever presence menace amongst fantasy reviews, just this once I think the reference is acurate. Deliberatly, I'm sure, this book follows the same structure as the last third of the Lord of the Rings. Our heros split into two groups. One, small group, goes on a mission deep into enemy territory to defeat the evil at its heart - Frodo with the Ring in Lords of the Ring, Belgarion to confront Torak here; while the rest take part in a large war, with the only hope of victory the success of the smaller group. Just like Tolkien the two stories are dealt with in detail, one following the other, just as in Lord of the Rings, only coming ...