Only 3 days to go!
Get your donations in quick, the Eragon Fan Film kickstarter is almost over!They need to raise $108,930 in the next three days to reach their goal. Will they reach it? It's a nail-biting race to the...
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Is There a Place In Hollywood For a Rebooted Eragon Franchise?
Yes.No.That’s the short answer, of course. This article aims to explore some of most compelling reasons for the need for and potential success of an Eragon film reboot!Don't get your hopes up; their...
View ArticleThe Hardest Challenge of All Time
Welcome, brave wanderer to the Gauntlet. Know that beyond this simple paragraph there lies a challenge of such terrible purpose, such horrific trouble that even the boldest of souls have fled screaming...
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Consequence: Archive
Alternate Title: Karma's a Bitch, EragonEverything changed after the Rider War. The Varden installed Queen Nasuada as ruler of the Broddring Empire, alliances with Ellesméra and Tronjheim were...
View ArticleForged By Fire Sporking: Part Eleven
Some jackass seriously used the "autistic screeching" line on me. I reacted by loading up the Sarcasm Shotgun and letting him have it with both barrels. Of all the moronic "insults" being thrown around...
View ArticleQ&A, November 2017
Taking a break from kung fu thesis for an evening, when I found this and decided to spork it.Q&A November 2017: Eragon’s Journey, Editing, and Favorite QuoteThe Paolini marketing machine is so...
View ArticleLives touched by Paolini
How has your life personally been touched by the greatness of Paolini?(I'm posting from my phone, so you'll have to copy and paste the...
View ArticleMost Evil Character in Inheritance
Hey there, I came up with a new question for all of you.Okay so we can all generally agree that the characters of the Inheritance Cycle would be the villains in any sane story. However one question...
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Forged By Fire Sporking: Part Twelve
Part Twelve: It Looks Like Life Is Going Well For You. Let’s Fix That.The next chapter opens with Zarq – ugh – dancing with Savga. Everyone’s partying because they’ve hatched their first bull. Tansan...
View ArticleHuge news!
It's just been announced that Cassandra Claire is beginning a new, high fantasy, adult-market (i.e. not YA) novel...
View ArticleThe Gharial Guy's Theories on why Eragon (the book) succeeded
So say what you will about the Inheritance series, it was quite the success. I don't think it'll have a particularly long shelf life compared to a lot of actual classics but it made a lot of money and...
View ArticleForged By Fire Sporking: The End
Part Thirteen: This Is The End, Beautiful FriendAt this point in the trilogy author finally seems to have realised that she forgot to establish a loving relationship between Zarq and Waivia in the...
View ArticleOn Elvish Utopia
We’re all with you Epistler, but consider this. We have a board and means to talk of what we will. We have proven our superior grasp of writing and story structure, and defeated the designs Paolini. We...
View ArticleThe Elves lost Inheritance
Yes, I know what you're thinking. They put their puppet Queen Nasuada on the throne, and lost at most the upper end of a hundred elves. Meanwhile thousands upon thousands of humans, dwarves and urgals...
View ArticleThe Full Implications of the Dragon/Rider Bond
This is something we've talked about a fair bit here, but I think there's more to be said on the subject. Throughout the tri- er, "Cycle", Paolini keeps trying to convince us that Eragon and Saphira...
View ArticleHow did the dragon elf war start?
The thread about the bond has me thinking about how the riders first came about. So the explanation given in the series is that one elf hunted a dragon for shits and giggles and accidentally started a...
View ArticleShurtugal.com: How to Edit Your NaNo Novel
This article went up recently on Paolini.net. [EDIT: shurtugal.com, sorry, not Paolini.net.] My comments are italic and dark green, everything else is Immanuela's words.NaNoWriMo provided the perfect...
View ArticleEragon: Too many genres
So I think we all agree that after Eragon the Inheritance Cycle’s books become an unfocused mess. What we might not all agree on is why. Reading through the books one of the things that stood out to me...
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Brisingr Spork Chaopter 37: Message In A Mirror
Contrary to the chapter title, this chapter contains neither a message nor a mirror.Oh look, another Saphira POV chapter.Pipedream has gone mysteriously missing, leaving behind nothing but a pile of...
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Brisingr Spork Chapter 38: Four Strokes Upon the Drum
Hello everyone! Bishop surrendered this chapter to Epistler, who then handed it off to me so that I can refresh my brain for Chapter 5 of Consequence (and perhaps get some spitefic fodder) by jumping...
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