Whatever Happened to Eragon?

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11 ай бұрын

The Inheritance series was a beloved book series that captured the hearts of audiences with its epic tales of a farm boy who discovers a dragon egg and becomes a dragon rider. The series was written by Christopher Paolini, who was just 15 years old when he began writing the first book. We will explore what happened to Eragon and what the future might hold for this beloved fantasy world.
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@OfficialDarkSoulMusic 7 ай бұрын

I don't know what you're talking about. That film is timeless. "I suffer without my stone........do not prolong my suffering." 🤣

@exitsexamined 7 ай бұрын

I've thought about those lines more then times then I would care to admit when making this video...

@rillagorton6141 5 ай бұрын

10/10 dialogue

@NayrAnur 4 ай бұрын

I honestly loved Jeremy Irons and John Malkovitch in that film.

@exitsexamined 8 ай бұрын

Hi all, Thank you for pointing out the mispronunciation of Paolini at some points in the video. I do my best to ensure that all information is accurate, but names, even simple ones, are not my strong suit. That being said I'll do my best to make sure it doesn't happen again. I do appreciate any and all corrections in this and future videos. Please be patient with me as I get the channel off the ground and learn from my mistakes. Cheers!

@winstonpoplin 7 ай бұрын

Don't worry about the pronunciation mate! We are just happy to see Eragon content from someone passionate about it! Thank you!!!!!!

@jeffreypircher5095 10 ай бұрын

Anyone who says his books are a rip off apparently never heard of the monomyth and the hero with a thousand faces. These were fun books to read and writing a book at any age is hard. The world would be a sadder place without them.

@eleonorepb4565 6 ай бұрын

Of course all monomyth stories are the same, I love when in Lord of the Ring Frodo fight with a sword the witch king who reveal to be related to him and I love when at the end of Harry Potter one Harry ride his Nimbus 200 to stop Lucius Malefoy and his men who were taking over the hidden Howgard.

@mjb7015 5 ай бұрын

Regarding the final confrontation: did you know that Paolini ripped the entire throne room scene directly out of Magician's Gambit, by David Eddings? Almost point for point, INCLUDING the swordfight, the two random children who turn up out of nowhere and then disappear because Paolini forgot they were there, and worst of all, the "be not!" spell which destroys the castle. Beat for beat, taken directly from Eddings and rewritten in his own words and with the names changed. That's not to mention the toll bridge scene in Eragon, which is a direct beat-for-beat (and almost word-for-word) theft from another Eddings book.

@thatassholemattmurray 5 ай бұрын

Umm just a few points 1 the children don't disappear second it's a very obvious fantasy trope for the all powerful big bad evil guy to toy with the heros before they get the jump on him, third the toll bridge is also a fantasy trope so much so if I'm playing d&d and want to give my players more gold I'll give them a toll bridge to rob.

@mjb7015 5 ай бұрын

@@thatassholemattmurray No, "it's a fantasy trope" doesn't excuse the word-for-word dialogue and exact point-for-point actions of the characters. It is a blatant scene theft, not a coincidental similarity.

@tyrellturner5602 4 ай бұрын

The two random children don't pop up out of nowhere. Galbatorix uses them as hostages to get Arya and Eragon to cooperate. In this verse Elve's are especially fond of children so this strategy has merit. Also the children don't disappear, Eragon returns them to there parents after defeating galbatorix Ive not read Edding's work. But Paolini was 15 when he started writing Eragon. I feel like its fair to cut him some clack for a lack of originality in the Inheritance cycle as he was so young when he wrote it. If you read some of his more recent work its much less derivative

@whatasave1945 2 ай бұрын

All of the things you’re mentioned, minus the children which can be coincidence, were previously set up throughout the series

@Alkhatibr 9 ай бұрын

If you do a Percy Jackson and Prydain episode you will have pretty much captured my childhood with the Inheritance and Redwall videos lol.

@exitsexamined 8 ай бұрын

Glad you mentioned that, it's actually on the list!

@CBCB8282 6 ай бұрын

Prydain! My first epic fantasy series not counting Narnia.

@sebastionherring4196 Күн бұрын

Paolini said long ago, the prophecy never stated that the FIRST time Eragon left he wouldn’t come back. Only that, at some point, he will leave and not return.

@Raislin Ай бұрын

Bit late to the party, but i got the recommendation now so whatever i suppose. I always thought the parts with the "extremely average cousin" were honestly some of the better writing in the series. Haven't read the series in a good while since you know being an adult these days but those parts always struck me as more grounded, dark and brutal (since he was just a regular old Joe) than whatever Eragon was doing. A bit of grim to spice things up so to speak.

@GG-id8bt 10 ай бұрын

I’m pretty sure he meant Pow Lee Knee and not Puh low knee. Suh fee ruh not Suh fee ree uh.

@giacomoconteri1197 3 ай бұрын

The Roran scenes were the best part in the second book in my opinion.

@exitsexamined 3 ай бұрын

Honestly, that's a fair take! I do have love for Roran and admit he added quite a bit to the series!

@mjb7015 5 ай бұрын

"with so much spectacle and awesome dragon fights" The dragons in the series barely do anything. There are exactly two (2) dragon fights in the four books, and the second one doesn't even involve the main dragon character, Saphira. For 90% of the books, Saphira is just in the background acting as a shiny taxi service and occasionally saying something "witty" or "wise".

@HeroicPorkChops 5 ай бұрын

the dragons dont have a lot of fights together because they are nearly extinct, there being only 4 dragons alive MAX at any given point (shruikan never even moves the entire series) until we discover the eldunari (which dont have bodies) But if you just want a dragon to fight at all, there are dozens of examples where Saphira has engaged in battle with her enemies.

@tyrellturner5602 4 ай бұрын

1) This is objectively wrong. I can name more than 3 Dragon fights right now Saphira vs Glaedr ( Eldest) Saphira vs Thorn (Eldest) Saphira vs Thorn ( Brisingr) Thorn vs Glaedr ( Brisingr) Saphira vs Thorn ( Inheritance) Glaedr vs Kialandi & Formora's Dragons ( Inheritance) Saphira & Thorn vs Shruikan ( Inheritance) Saphira vs Firnen ( Inheritance) And this is only Dragon vs Dragon fights. Not just Dragons fighting in general 2) As other have mentioned, Dragons are nearly extinct in this verse. Difficult to have frequent Dragon battles when there are less than a handful of Dragons left alive

@KnightFerrocous 3 ай бұрын

I was a fan of these growing up. I got the first one in like 4th grade entirely because of the cover art and I got the rest as they came out. Unfortunately Inheritance came out when I was finishing up high school and so I reread the series for it and as I did the holes in it got bigger and I was just extremely bored of Inheritance and came out of the book frustrated because I called essentially every single beat 100 pages early and it was so bloated for no reason other than "Well the other books are 600 page monstrosities so this one has to be too". I have not partaken in the subsequent media from the franchise because of that but this video makes me want to hunt down the audiobooks to listen to while I game or travel. I do have a friend who is still super into the series though. On a side note I had the DS version of the movie tie in game and I kind of loved it. It was really short, like not even 3 hours long once you knew what to do and where to go, but that made it not overstay its welcome and the magic system of drawing runes with the touch screen while also dodging attacks and such was just so much fun to me as a kid. Unfortunately my copy was stolen.

@VITAS874 8 ай бұрын

Game on pc is so awesome. Playing hours and with friends 😊

@palemoonlight96 7 ай бұрын

Great work! Please do a murtagh video for the new book!!

@exitsexamined 7 ай бұрын

Hey thank you so much for the support! It's on the list!

@thisguy1413 7 ай бұрын

Bro you lost me when you started hating on Roran. He kinda carries the series at times.

@eleonorepb4565 6 ай бұрын

One of the sole main character that is not stolen from Star Wars

@mjb7015 5 ай бұрын

@@eleonorepb4565 That's because he's a clone of Perrin, from the Wheel of Time books. Hammer and all.

@katietaylor8314 5 ай бұрын

I read the entire Cycle and Roran is nothing but a psychotic thug who beats up a teenage girl and murders a child, and this is *after* he slaughters 193 conscripted soldiers and laughs and brags about it. He's completely disgusting and evil.

@eleonorepb4565 5 ай бұрын

@@mjb7015 I haven't reed this serie yet, but even if he is a copy of an other character the fact that he is put in a different story make something a bit new

@danny234555 11 ай бұрын

Quartet is technically correct, but Paolini calls it the Inheritance Cycle. Looking forward to Murtagh and one of the short stories in the fork, the witch, and the worm seems to be a lead in to murtagh's upcoming story. Lastly... the way you pronounce Paolini is off and a bit jarring... but good video otherwise

@Buddy-Dale 5 ай бұрын

Tetralogy also works

@user-nv7su2lj4h 5 ай бұрын

Quadrilogy

@cturner956 5 ай бұрын

Roran carried the second and third books tbh

@exitsexamined 5 ай бұрын

I might have to make another statement on this video publicly apologizing for my crimes against Roran 🤣

@lonespartan2272 5 ай бұрын

As excited as i am for Eragon to being remade on Disney+ i am also skeptical and keeping my distance from Disney given their track record of flops and failures over the years. But who knows, it may be pushed out by a team that won't cram the woke message nonsense down our throats or Paolini may have control over it were it won't be pushed to have those narratives. not trying to start anything political here I'm just saying that given Disney's record I'm kind of on the fence here as Disney has taken good things and made them bad while aggressively pushing a woke narrative.

@nicholasbarton3184 11 ай бұрын

Will try using "fouragy" at next scrabble game 🤣

@Tallacus 5 ай бұрын

I am happy Paolini continued the series from Murtagh's and Thorn's perspective. They are the more interesting Dragon Rider/ Dragon pair I like.

@exitsexamined 5 ай бұрын

agree, especially now that Paolini is a bit older it will be interesting to see his new take on the series

@inersdraco 3 ай бұрын

Thanks to Eragon I discovered a lot of classic tropes never touching Star Wars nor TLoR.

@JackalopeBunny 3 ай бұрын

I admit i read this back in high school, and i kinda wish we could get a better series of Eragon, but i doubt that would happen lol

@xfel5913 25 күн бұрын

The conclusion of the final confrontation was actually kind of stolen from the Belgariad saga

@exitsexamined 24 күн бұрын

I think I'll be redoing this video sometime soon, I'll have to check into this. Was the Belgariad series any good?

@rose_roots 5 ай бұрын

Lol, Paloni

@quakeSanchez 6 ай бұрын

Nothing happened to Eragon. We just grew up. Got wiser. Read a lot of books that are better. I loved the first two books initially. Skipped most of the Roran's journey. Really liked the ending of 'Eldest'. Was unable to finish the 4th book. At the end of the day, the plot is nothing to write home about, and the characters are not good enough to make up for that. Some conflicts are interesting (Eragon and Saphira developing their bond, Eragon's training).

@mjb7015 5 ай бұрын

"Paolini devoted extensive research to this linguistic endeavour" HA, that's funny. No, Paolini demonstrably did almost no research into linguistics. The extent of his linguistic failure in the Ancient Language has been extensively documented in various blog posts and videos, but suffice to say his linguistics knowledge was (up until the time he wrote Brisingr) no better than early high school level at best. There are many similarly incorrect statements in this video, which I find to be biased in Paolini's favour.

@tyrellturner5602 4 ай бұрын

Hey your wrong and there's tons of evidence to prove it but I'm incapable of providing said evidence. So im gonna accuse you of being biased because i disagree with you

@snarkbotanya6557 4 ай бұрын

@@tyrellturner5602 OK, here's a little rundown of some of Paolini's linguistic failings. One is very broad, two are more specific, and all of them show a great deal of laziness. I also decided not to confine myself to just the Ancient Language, because the other languages he's made have their own issues. - The Ancient Language in the first book _barely_ qualifies as a conlang. Its grammar is virtually indistinguishable from English with very few exceptions (e.g. the ability to omit copulas), and most of its vocabulary is pilfered wholesale from Old Norse (with a few exceptions, several of which are clearly slightly-modified pulls from other languages, e.g. "arget" clearly comes from Greek άργυρος). He didn't try to invent his own consistent phonology and make words based on that, he just took words he thought sounded cool and slotted them into the grammar of his native language with some minor tweaks (and many of those tweaks came much later in the series). - In _Eldest,_ Oromis's explanation of why Elva's blessing was actually a curse completely misidentifies the grammar in question in a way that makes it very obvious that the Ancient Language basically just has English grammar, and Paolini doesn't even understand English grammar correctly. Oromis says that the suffix -o forms the past tense, but "be shielded" is not the past tense, it's the passive voice. They both use the suffix -ed in English, but they have very different meanings and gramamtical functions, and most languages with both a past tense and passive voice don't have such similar forms for them. - The notes about the dwarf language on Paoliini's website have a section about word order that commits another "doesn't even understand English grammar" error. When stating that the dwarf language has very inflexible subject-verb-object word order, he uses as an example, "You go to town will?" in place of "Will you go to town?" This is a terrible example because not only is this _not_ the kind of simiple transitive sentence that would be ideal for showcasing SVO, it splits the verb form really badly. "Will" isn't an object here; it's an auxiliary verb forming the future tense of the verb "to go." In English, that form does split in a question, with the auxiliary moving to the front of the sentence to serve similarly to an interrogative word, but it's still part of the verb. Proper strict SVO in this instance would probably be "You will go to town?" though "You to town will go?" is possible if the language handles motion-towards differently than a proper object.

@eleonorepb4565 6 ай бұрын

I was never a fan of Eragon, mainly because the first books are a copy paste of the Star Wars original trilogy and because I already reed fantasy stories with a similar world building. Many fantasy books deserve more the praise Eragon got, but some of them are condamned to stay underrated because they have a female protagonist and teenage boys are afraid of series with a female protagonist

@David0Izzy Ай бұрын

Peloni?

@exitsexamined Ай бұрын

Yes, it was a stupid mistake, I pinned a comment I made about this on the video and will redo the entire video in the future.

@joshmaggard6 5 ай бұрын

I think unfortunately this series was just bound to end up as it did. The stories have so little that is original, what they take from everything else is mediocre at best, and the plagiarism is indeed quite excessive. As someone said it is a play by play of Magicians Gambit. The books came out when a generation was young, then as we grew the books just faded as we found deeper fantasy settings that were better executed. Also one minor gripe but why did he feel for a coming of age story he needed to specify that the elf didn’t have pubic hair?

@exitsexamined 5 ай бұрын

It will be interesting to see Paolini's new books in the series and if he addresses any of these issues

@Boykev6 10 ай бұрын

At least learn how to pronounce the author's name

@davispeterson1876 5 ай бұрын

Did you just call Roran "extremely average"? I dont think we can be friends anymore sir.

@AlexAmStart123 5 ай бұрын

I have seen all Star Wars Films, and personally never recognised any copied elements from it. Discussing similarities with Lord of the Rings, I see similarities with orks, and elves. Nevertheless elves have been reused in so many films and fantasy frenchises elsewhere than in Eragon, where they have that a diferrent setting, different traditions a whole different background and all that stuff. In regard of that it seems not true to me, to point out that Eragon is a story which is just set together out of pieces of LOTR. You have also spoken from plot changes (Eragon as vegetarian), because of the aging of Paolini. This could be a way to interpretate it, but on the other side, you could also see it as an example/mataphor for the wisdom that the truth is to be found, most of the times, in between the extremes. That's the way I see it. Any plot refereces to other works , I do not have any knowledge about.

@markomarko494 4 ай бұрын

LOR tv show is terrible; WOT tv is terrible…… will Disney do any better?

@exitsexamined 4 ай бұрын

We can only hope, would be amazing if it had some people with some real passion for the books behind it and bring a whole new wave of audience

@zatchbell5678 4 ай бұрын

Even when I was in my teens, I found Eldest SO boring that even though I forced myself to finish it, I could never make myself complete the series. I appreciate the series for what it is, especially for young readers being introduced to fantasy, but it certainly isn't ranked among my favorites.