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Yes!

Quite.

Undecided.

No, they're pretty bad.

No, they're terrible.

Don't care. / View poll.

[Jackrabbit]

Just magic for the sake of magic?

[ein]

Magic sword.
Really though, it's just heavily irradiated.
2 months after the series ends, Eragon will die of cancer.

[Bandages]

They have a lot in the books that can't really be explained save for "ITS CAUSE OF MAGIC"

Like the guy who was blinded who could magically see the plot twist at the end of book 3.

[Jackrabbit]

I wouldn't mind it so much if it wasn't so very, very much like both Star Wars and Lord of The Rings. "A wizard did it" works right up until the writer loses all credibility by pulling shit like that.

[Rotten]

Magic sword.
Really though, it's just heavily irradiated.
2 months after the series ends, Eragon will die of cancer.

Starmetal (or whatever the hell its called) is really Uranium.
Really. Think about it.
1. All the rider people are magical. That's because they're mutants.
2. A large part of the world is a giant desert. What could have caused that? A GIANT BOMB-METEOR
3. The part where he gets mind controlled to make the sword is just a hallucination caused by brain damage from being around that massive hunk of metal.
4. The sword can set on fire on command. This should be impossible due to our knowledge of physics (I think it mentions that he didn't get tired, which means it violates conservation of energy). Therefore, Eragon must be hallucinating, caused by being around a hunk of radioactive metal 24/7.

Therefore, when he fights Galby, their swords reach critical mass and blow the world 15 miles high.

[Pathos]

4. The sword can set on fire on command. This should be impossible due to our knowledge of physics (I think it mentions that he didn't get tired, which means it violates conservation of energy). Therefore, Eragon must be hallucinating, caused by being around a hunk of radioactive metal 24/7.

That wouldn't work, I don't think it'd be the right shape.

No, what's going to happen is that the Varden threaten to reshape Eragon's sword into a sphere whilst shouting "DURKA! DURKA! BOMBER JIHAD!"

[Pathos]

I wouldn't mind it so much if it wasn't so very, very much like both Star Wars and Lord of The Rings. "A wizard did it" works right up until the writer loses all credibility by pulling shit like that.

It also doesn't help that the main character forgets 90% of his magical items when they'd be most useful, and is instead rescued by Deus ex Machina.

Remember that ring filled with magic, Eragon? OH WAIT, NO YOU DON'T.

[Jackrabbit]

I don't. Was that in the first two? I read both of them back when I was 10-12 and loved them.

[Grakelin]

I know a guy who's girlfriend loaned him her copy of Eragon and made him keep it in a ziploc bag so as not to ruin the cover.

I sometimes wonder if she was trolling him.

[MrWiggles]

The Plagiarism Thread

LOTR: Inheritance Cycle:
Aragorn---------------Eragon
Arwen---------------Arya
Isengard---------------Isenstar
Angrenost---------------Angrenost
Morgoth---------------Morgothal
Elessar---------------Elessari
Fornost---------------Furnost
Melian---------------Melian
Valinor---------------Vanilor
Eriador---------------Eridor
Imladris---------------Imiladris
Caranthir---------------Ceranthor
Isildur---------------Isidar

There's a lot more there.

He also directly lifts the whipping scene from the Starship Troopers movie and puts it in his book. Dialogue (even though the dialogue doesn't even FIT the mood in the book, URRGGGHHHH) and all. Oh, and one of the first chapters of Eragon is basically stolen from WoT.

More:

Star Wars:
Empire, Empire
Varden, Rebel base
Eragon, Luke
Brom, Obi Wan Kenobi
Garrow, Luke's Father (can't remember what his name was)
Carvahall, Tattooine
Galbatorix, The Emperor
Murtagh, In Star Wars, there are two major revelatons of family ties, Princess Leya, and Vader. Murtagh acts as both in a way. He is Eragon's brother as Leya is Luke's sister, and he is trapped on the enemy side, as Vader is. Though I believe Murtagh will perform the same sacrificial purpose Vader did, kind of sad really.
Oromis, Yoda
Nassuada, sort of acts as princess Leya, since they are both, or at least at first appear to both be daughters of the leader of the rebels/varden.
Zarrock, Luke's first, I believe blue light saber
Brisingr, Luke's new, green light saber he makes later on.

If its as dead on or as blantant as suggested in the link post, there would have been some sorta law suit over it. I think Lucas may have been fine with it, but I doubt the Tolkien estate would have been.  They get really uppity. They even got pissed at dNd for using the the word hobbits to describe hobbits.

[Cthulhu]

It stayed under the radar for the most part.  It was just another dime-store heroic fantasy novel, just bigger, and they all rip off Lord of the Rings too.

[inteuniso]

Magic sword.
Really though, it's just heavily irradiated.
2 months after the series ends, Eragon will die of cancer.

Starmetal (or whatever the hell its called) is really Uranium.
Really. Think about it.
1. All the rider people are magical. That's because they're mutants.
2. A large part of the world is a giant desert. What could have caused that? A GIANT BOMB-METEOR
3. The part where he gets mind controlled to make the sword is just a hallucination caused by brain damage from being around that massive hunk of metal.
4. The sword can set on fire on command. This should be impossible due to our knowledge of physics (I think it mentions that he didn't get tired, which means it violates conservation of energy). Therefore, Eragon must be hallucinating, caused by being around a hunk of radioactive metal 24/7.

Therefore, when he fights Galby, their swords reach critical mass and blow the world 15 miles high.

I like to believe they're set in the same world as Stardust, and that their swords are actually made out of girls that fell from the stars. Thus, you have fairybone swords!

[ein]

So the stargirls are radioactive mutants?

[CJ1145]

I like to believe they're set in the same world as Stardust, and that their swords are actually made out of girls that fell from the stars. Thus, you have fairybone swords!

So what you're saying is, the Dragon Riders in the Eragon books actually capture and forcibly breed Stargirls, and then harvest their young for bones and other resources for crafts? Shit, these guys are almost as dwarfy as we are! They must be destroyed.

[Aklyon]

I like to believe they're set in the same world as Stardust, and that their swords are actually made out of girls that fell from the stars. Thus, you have fairybone swords!

So what you're saying is, the Dragon Riders in the Eragon books actually capture and forcibly breed Stargirls, and then harvest their young for bones and other resources for crafts? Shit, these guys are almost as dwarfy as we are! They must be destroyed.

Not to mention they're voluntarily flying dwarves! Not bridgeapulted! Crazyness! they should stay underground like all the sensible dwarves do.