The Official Inheritance Cycle Thread

which is your favorite movie...

  • Narnia

    Votes: 8 36.4%

  • Eragon

    Votes: 3 13.6%

  • Harry Potter

    Votes: 2 9.1%

  • Lord of the Rings

    Votes: 9 40.9%
  • Total voters
    22
I'm always "Awwwww" when I see her. I just can't resist! So Adorable!!!!
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I just saw Eragon for the first time last night! My family rented it :D I thought it was okay... it got the basic plot parts down, just not exactly in the same ways. And why oh why was it only an hour and 40 minutes long? It seemed way too short to be a version of the book!

But I agree, baby Saphira was really cute :D
 
Okay, I just finished reading the first book. It's not bad, but it's way too easy to predict. Here's the stuff I predicted while reading the book:

1. that Brom is/was a Dragon Rider as soon as he saw the mark on Eragon's hand...
2. that Eragon's sword originally belonged to a hero-gone-wrong as soon as Brom told him about it.
3. that at the end of the book, there would be some epic battle which would conclude with Saphira breathing fire for the first time, as soon as Brom mentioned that dragons can't breathe fire till six months.

And this is what I am predicting for the next book, which I haven't read yet.

1. Murtagh is quite obviously Eragon's brother! He's got to find out...
2. Ha ha. Think "Arya...Arwen"

So, am I right? Oh wait, don't tell me! No, do tell me! No, don't... :D
 
OK: so I was on IMDb yesterday, and I looked up Eragon's trivia:

Christopher Paolini, author of the original novel, expressed his wishes to make a cameo appearance in the film, specifically a warrior who is beheaded in the battle of Farthen Dur. However, he was unable to due to the constraints of his European Book Tour.
(hee hee)

Elijah Wood and Shia LaBeouf were considered for the role of Eragon.
(Glad they didn't get it! Shia LaBeouf was the dude in Even Stevens)

Edward Speleers' film debut.
(No wonder he was dreadful.)


Alex Pettyfer was offered the role of Eragon, previous to the casting of Ed Speleers. Pettyfer says he turned down the role partly because Eragon was being filmed in Budapest and he's afraid of flying.
(Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!! There could have be an actually HOT Eragon, and one that could ACT, but noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. Stupid fear of flying.)


In the movie, Murtagh only carries a bow. In the first Eragon book, Murtagh carried a bow, a sword, and a dagger.
(Why would they get anything right, much less the types of weaponry Murtagh carries?)

Murtagh's (Garrett Hedlund) name is mentioned only once in the movie. Nasuada's (Caroline Chikezie) name is never said. King Hrothgar's (Gary Lewis) name or authority is never said or stated.
(Of course not.)



And my personal favorites:

There are well over fifty differences between the movie and book plot lines.
(No. way.)

Arya's hair color was meant to be black.
(And it wasn't because.......????)

AND OF COURSE:
Many fans of the book were upset at Stefen Fangmeier's decisions to take out crucial characters and plot lines. Most notable differences include leaving out Angela's prophecy, Eragon's infatuation with Arya, Murtagh's scar and Saphira's appearance.
(And they wonder why.)
 
SweetWaters said:
1. Murtagh is quite obviously Eragon's brother! He's got to find out...
2. Ha ha. Think "Arya...Arwen"

So, am I right? Oh wait, don't tell me! No, do tell me! No, don't... :D
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If you want to ruin Eldest in full I suggest going to Wikipedia ;)

QueenSusanofNarnia said:
Many fans of the book were upset at Stefen Fangmeier's decisions to take out crucial characters and plot lines. Most notable differences include leaving out Angela's prophecy, Eragon's infatuation with Arya, Murtagh's scar and Saphira's appearance.
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ELVA!! Don't forget her!!! :D

QueenSusanofNarnia said:
Alex Pettyfer was offered the role of Eragon, previous to the casting of Ed Speleers. Pettyfer says he turned down the role partly because Eragon was being filmed in Budapest and he's afraid of flying.
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Pfft...I do not believe that. Pettyfer has done a LOT of the Storm breaker stunts...afraid of flying...:p Yeah right...

QueenSusanofNarnia said:
Arya's hair color was meant to be black.
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Yes,yes. I really wanted them to chose a good Arya...Sienna seems...hmm...not Arya enough. I always imagined Arya as more reserved.
 
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Shy said:
Look what someone wrote about the books:


Ok, rant time, lets see what i can write out.

Names:...Chrisy, get yourself some originality, using the names Vanilor and Eridor IS NOT ORIGINAL!!!! Valinor and Eriador are two places that Professor Tolkien managed to create. Isenstar? Oh my gods, i think you mean Isengard. and Ardwen? Hello Arwen. *runs off to fetch book*. Ok i can go on. Eldor? Sounds a lot like... Elladan, Elrohir, Elrond, should i go on? Gil'ead? Gil-Galad. Rona? Thats a hardware store for peats sake!! Oh, and i forget what book it is, but the name Murtag has already been taken, adding an h does not make it original. Galfni-Gandalf. Eoam-Eomer, man... this is starting to kill me. And one of the worst Beirland...i almost died when i read that on the map. Another really bad one, Melian, how freaking obviouse is that.

Plot:Holy flying cheese! These books could be called Star of the Rings, wow man! Kid living with uncle, uncle dies at hands of some weird beast with an unpronounceable name. Kid gets some magical thing(Saphira, lightsaber you could say and the Ring). Kid vows revenge, gets help from some weird old man(Brom was ok, but too similiar to Star Wars characters and Gandy). An epic quest takes place with a shady character(Murtagh-Aragorn(who is so much hotter than Murtagh)). Old weird man dies(oh wow...Gandy and that other dude). Continues on blah blah balh, in this case Star Wars kicks Eragons skinny blonde butt. And someone called this an epic. Absoloutely not, not in any way shape or form is CP's little trilogy an "epic" is a waste of paper, and he killed hundreds of thousands of trees publishing this "epic"

Characters:Eragon-Luke, need i say more? Brom-Gandalf, other wierd charrie from SW. Murtagh-Aragorn, Arya-Arwen, Saphira-Ring, you could compare Orik to Gimli... thats really all i can think of, but he's a plagurizing little man and i hate his guts.

One of my main rants is Eragon, in other words Marty-Sam, a character than has many tragic things happen to them, make it sportingly through, and : show no emotion what so ever, have amazing powers that usually take years to build up, have hundreds of women flocking after them and are very thick.

I detest his books, i have both btw, CP needs to get himself an imagination and some backbone so he can creat names that aren't so blatantly Tolkien. The movie was a let down, and CP needs to have his brains bashed out. There, i've had my say...*is content*


EDIT:I would also like to say that Eragon will not appeal to the legions of readers who have been captivated by the Lord of the Rings trilogy, if being captivaed means bashing and burning it then yes.

"Sorry if i sound like im bashing the books, which probably am, but this is my opinion, and if you dont like it, we agree to disagree."
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lil harsh to me....seems a lil true though.
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wow.................
 
That's mean! :mad:
(Anyway names are not copyright! And Eldest isn't like anything else I've ever read! And Aragon isn't at all like Murtagh!)
 
I'VE FINALLY FINISHED ELDEST!!! YUY!!! IT WAS GREAT!!!
That person must have read the books very carefully, to find out all this stuff. And besides, Murtagh isn't like Aragon, he's like Darth Vader: "Luke, I am your father" becomes: "Eragon, I am your brother"
But I don't care, the books are great! That's just that kind of books, they're all a bit the same, and it's a challenge to do something original. But CP has managed to make something very creative and he should be proud of it!!
 
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