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
Gondra said:
I don't
think Paolini
copied. He
deserves
credit for
his work.
Writing a
700-page
novel is tough
work.
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Well anyone can write 700 pages if you copy it randomly from other stories- admittedly it took up a year or more of his life, but really J K rowling can write 700 pages, all of which are totally her ideas.
 
SK999111 said:
Well anyone can write 700 pages if you copy it randomly from other stories- admittedly it took up a year or more of his life, but really J K rowling can write 700 pages, all of which are totally her ideas.
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Even JK has been accused of copying Tolkien. Believe it or not :rolleyes:

I hate it when people say that everything's been copied from Tolkien.
 
I know. that is sooo annoying! Im suprised they didnt say Narnia is copied from Tolkien' work. :rolleyes: they were both published around the same time anyways.
 
No actually i have not, i have read the hobbit, and the lord of the rings, thats al i have read of Tolkien's works. But like i said im not as fond of his writing as much as others.
 
knightsmithers said:
So do we have any fans of the Eregon books by Christopher Paoulini?
Great fantasy, id recomend it.
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Yeah, I like the Inheritance trilogy... but there are much more better works, Indeed. Thus I say this...

Attention to all of you, in this forum...

I welcome you to Epic Earth

I, Maese Delta, have something special I'd like to share with you.

Well, first things first, if you really want to earn your love for such kind of stories, you'll do well to not only read the books, but also watch the movies, and more important, read the epics that inspired them.

As you might guess, this will be a long thread, but I have no time yet to explain all I want to tell you. But, I have something urgent now.

Here I go: I am totally an Epic Lover, it's the literary and film genre by excelence. I am writing a story of such a genre, and I've spent 6 years in the making, though I still keep on the work. My first and greatest inspiration was The Lord the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. Since then, I've followed, read and watched as many epic I've found. And also, my story was conceived.

And now, here is the glimpse of what this thread will speak of:

What of the following epic movies have you seen, and which ones are your favorites? If you have seen most of them, how will you rank them?

Note: The order the movies are listed does not represent my preferences... well, just a bit, yet I don't remember very well how was my ranking for them.

1.The Fellowship of the Ring
2.The Two Towers
3.The Return of the King
4.The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
5.Braveheart
6.Gladiator
7.The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
8.300
9.Kingdom of Heaven
10.Troy
11.Excalibur
12.Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World
13.The Passion of the Christ
14.The Greatest Story Ever Told
15.Ben-Hur
16.Spartacus
17.Barrabas
18.The Rope
19.Alexander
20.Hero
21.The Curse of the Golden Flower
22.The Seven Samurai
23.The Last Samurai
24.Alexander the Great
25.The Vikings
26.The Patriot
27.Lawrence of Arabia
28.Gone with the Wind
29.Helen of Troy
30.The Lion in Winter
31.Atila
32.Willow
33.Dragonslayer
34.Brotherhood of the Wolf
35.Quo Vadis
36.The Fall of the Roman Empire
37.Saving Private Ryan
38.Apocalypsys Now
39.Cleopatra
40.Napoleon
41.Julius Caesar
42.Beowulf & Grendel
43.The Mummy Returns
44.Ladyhawke
45.Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
46.Pathfinder
47.Miracle Maker
48.The Prince of Egypt
49.The Ten Commandments
50.Tristan & Isolde
51.Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
52.Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
53.Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
54.The 300 Spartans
55.Alexander Nevsky
56.Apocalypto
57.King Arthur
58.Krull
59.Erik the Viking
60.Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace
61.Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones
62.Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith
63.Star War IV: A New Hope
64.Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back
65.Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi
66.The Mahabharata
66.Eragon

Well... that was 'Phew!' for you. But, now you know, that shows at least a glimpse of my love for the Epic. On the next days, I'll update this thread and ask you about how many epics you have read. I hope you're interested to know more about this genre in both books and films. And, why not, perhaps to build a group which I call 'Glaerendilis', which means: 'Friends' or 'Lovers' of the Epic in Sindarin, one of the Elvish tongues of Tolkien in Middle Earth.

And don't be afraid of all of this, and please, do not feel offender nor scared. The Epic shows many things, you'll see... besides, what is the Epic about? It is always a long journey, and there many things to face. You are not afraid of such overwhelming things like this, and have you never felt once in your life like if you were in one of those stories?

Now, here I go with the Epic Literature. Remember, some of them may be considered well in such a genre, even when some stories were not understood and/or written as epics:

1. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
3. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
4. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew
5. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
6. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Horse and his Boy
7. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
8. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
9. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair
10. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Last Battle
11. The Holy Bible
12. The Divine Comedy
13. The Iliad
14. The Odyssey
15. The Aeneid
16. The Battle of Moyture
17. Cath Maige Tuired
18. Mabinogion
19. Beowulf
20. The Nibelungenlied
21. The Volsungs Saga
22. Lay of Mio Cid
23. Song of Roland
24. Epic of Gilgamesh
25. Ivanhoe
26. Jerusalem Delivered
27. Orlando Furioso
28. Paradise Lost
29. Paradise Regained
30. The Araucana
31. The Austriad
32. The Lusiad
33. Julius Caesar’s Gallic Wars
34. Le Mort d’ Arthur
35. Pharsalia (Civil War)
36. Shah-Namah
37. Robin Hood and his Adventures
38. Anabasis
39. Erec et Enide
40. Lancelot or the Knight with the Cart
41. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
42. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
43. The Danish History
44. The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway
45. The Cattle Raid of Cooley (Táin Bó Cúailnge)
46. The Fall of Troy
47. The Kalevala
48. Laxdaela Saga
49. The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald
50. The Mahabharata
51. The Ramayana
52. The Poetic Edda
53. The Prose Edda
54. The Ring of the Nibelung
55. The Saga of Grettir the Strong
56. The Story of the Ere-Dwellers
57. The Saga of Hervor King Heidrek the Wise
58. The Story of Burnt Njal
59. The Story of the Heathslayings
60. Ulysses
61. Yvain or the Knight with the Cart
62. The Life of King Alfred
63. The Argonautica
64. The Knight of the Two Swords
65. The Quest of the Holy Grail
66. De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)
67. The One Thousand and One Nights
68. Epic of King Gesar
69. The Faerie Queene
70. Henriade
71. Ossianic Ballads
72. Don Quixote
73. The Count of Montecristo
74. War and Peace
75. The Silmarillion
76. The Hobbit
77. Les Miserables
78. Moby-Dick
79. Thebaid
78. The Tale of the Heike
80. Metamorphoses
81. Eragon
82. Eldest
83. Empire

I leave you my email: maesedelta@yahoo.com.mx

So that you may send further comments to me about what you have learned today with this thread.

Farewell to all of you.

Maese Delta (Glaerendil)
 
I have a thread for Book III theories here.
To save you a hyperlink click, I've decided to share my theory right here in this post:

Yes, I know this is a bit lengthy, but it’s a theory that will cover the entire book and not just part of it. This theory was created before I saw the movie version of Eragon, so any parts you see that are paralleled with the movie are not copied and are completely coincidental.

At the beginning, Orik is elected as the next Dwarf king, to succeed Hrothgar, who died in Eldest. In the Eldest paperback edition, the preview for Book III shows Eragon, Roran, and Saphira attacking the Ra’zac’s fortress in Dras-Leona. According to my theory, Saphira fairly kills all the Ra’zac and lethrblaka with her fire.

Eragon and Saphira go back to Ellesméra to complete their training. After a few weeks’ stay, Oromis dies from his condition, and because of that, so does Glaedr.

About this time, Galbatorix sends his human army to Surda to attack the Varden. Caught off-guard, the Varden lose, and Jörmundur is killed. Afterward Elva is made second-in-command to take Jörmundur’s place.
Soon afterwards, Murtagh and Thorn are sent to capture Eragon and Saphira again. Only now, Eragon wins, and kills Thorn. But, since he’s a friend with Murtagh, he lets him go.

During this time, Arya has pieced everything together. To get confirmation, she asks Saphira when they are alone, and Saphira talks about Angela’s prophecy that she had told Eragon in Teirm.

Refer back to Eldest; during his fight with Murtagh, Eragon muttered, “Brakka du vanyalí sem huildar Saphira un eka!” Translated, “Reduce the magic that holds Saphira and me!” This was intended to get off Murtagh’s grasp, but I realized something…’huildar’ means either ‘holds’ or ‘binds’. Thus, he could’ve said a spell that reduced that magic that bound him to Saphira.

Arya decides, from the council of Islandsadí, to try to steal the green egg from Galbatorix. But before she leaves, she tells Eragon that it would be best for them to not see each other again. Eragon figures out what has happened and confronts Saphira, saying that he never wants to see her again and that he hates her. Saphira, who would have ignored this earlier, takes Eragon very seriously and flies away, heartbroken.

Arya manages to steal the egg, and that night it hatches for her.

A few days later, Eragon gets news that Saphira has turned herself in to Galbatorix. He casually looks down and sees his gedwëy ignasia is gone.

Finally, Galbatorix finds his egg is gone. So, with no other dragons left, he forces Saphira to mate with his own dragon, Shruikan.

Roran has, all this time, been living with the Varden. He decides to visit Eragon in Du Weldenvarden. When he learns that Saphira has left, he has a long talk with Eragon, who decides to go after her.

Arya returns, with her green dragon barely bigger than she is. She says that she knows a spell that will allow her dragon to breathe fire, so she and Roran return to the Varden.

Eragon has, by now, found an old Rider’s sword under the Manoa Tree, a color to match Saphira. He takes it with him to Urû-baen.

He confronts Galbatorix, and Murtagh, Saphira, and Shruikan enter soon afterwards. But, since Eragon doesn’t have the gedwëy ignasia, he can’t use magic. Thus Galbatorix overpowers him. But Murtagh draws Zar’roc and attacks Galbatorix, thus ending his ancient language oath.

In Surda, the entire Imperial Army attacks the Varden. With Arya and her dragon, it is easier to defeat the army, but still difficult.

Eragon rushes to Saphira, and finds he can’t talk to her. But he quickly raises his hand and touches Saphira’s neck, and the gedwëy ignasia reappears.

Murtagh is thrown out the window by Galbatorix’s magic, and Zar’roc flies across the room.

Eragon rushes at Galbatorix while Saphira rushes at Shruikan. They all fight each other, occasionally switching opponents. During one of these moments, Eragon manages to kill Shruikan. Galbatorix, enrages, slashes at Eragon and rips his sword from his hand. But just before Eragon is run through, Saphira jumps in front of the blade and gets stabbed instead.

(One of those classic “Noooo!” moments is here)

In Surda, Roran takes a stand and surges straight into the army. He starts taking down everything in his path.

Eragon uses magic to bring Zar’roc to his hand and ultimately stabs Galbatorix dead.

Murtagh had stopped himself with magic from falling to his death, and by now has gotten back to the room.

Saphira is fatally wounded. Eragon doesn’t want to lose her, after all they’d been through, so he starts to heal the wound, and asks Murtagh for his strength as well. In the end, both are close to fainting, and it seems as if it was in vain.
At the battle…
The enemy army suddenly stops fighting, and look around as if they had just woken from sleep. Then they raise a cheer, for Galbatorix is dead. His bind on them is demolished. Finally, the war for Alagaësia is over.
Saphira slowly wakes up. Eragon is so close to tears anyway, he cries and hugs her.

Six months later…
Roran is crowned king. He marries Katrina, who he and Eragon rescued from the Ra’zac. Eragon and Arya marry, and Saphira finds her mate at long last: Arya’s dragon.

Nasuada becomes ruler of Surda, and Elva becomes heir to the throne. Carvahall is rebuilt, and the villagers move back in.

Past that is a much of a mystery to me as it is to you. Though I think it’s safe to say that they all live happily ever after.
 
Actually, shurtugal.com said sometime in Summer '08. Since Eragon and Eldest were released in August, it makes sense that Book III will be released in August as well.
 
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