Eragon Book Series
Eragon is the first book in The Inheritance Cycle by American fantasy writer, Christopher Paolini. Paolini, born in 1983, wrote the novel while still in his teens. After writing the first draft for a year, Paolini spent a second year rewriting and fleshing out the story and characters. Christopher's New Book: To Sleep in a Sea of Stars. And the Worm Eragon (Book One) Eldest (Book Two) Brisingr (Book Three) Inheritance (Book Four).
“I’ve known for a while that I wanted to return to the world of Eragon and tell some more stories. I’ve had a fifth book planned for a long time,” Paolini tells EW.
“Those stories are separate from the story I told in the Inheritance Cycle. That is a self-contained epic that reached its proper conclusion, but that doesn’t mean that the world itself doesn’t continue to grow and change.
I spent so long working on the Inheritance Cycle, from 1998-2011, and it was such a fundamental part of my life, that I’ve never been able to not think about it ever since. Command and conquer 4. I kept daydreaming like, what are the characters up to? What are they doing? Wouldn’t it be cool if X, Y, or Z? All sorts of other story ideas popped up as a result.
Some of those were suitable for book-length projects, but some of them were smaller and self-contained, which is how we ended up with The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm.”. “It was a lot of fun collaborating with my sister,” Paolini says.
“What readers may not realize is that Angela and I have collaborated for a long time. I’ve used her as a sounding board; she’s one of my first readers and often provides editing for my books. We’ve often worked together, but not in open collaboration like this. It was a lot of fun.
I think the biggest challenge for her (and would’ve been a challenge for me) was coming into someone else’s world. She did it really well.
Train simulator 2013 pc. Her writing style is quite different from my own, but she did a good job of matching it to the world while retaining her unique flavor. Sort of provided the larger framework for where The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm was going and how Angela’s story was going to fit in, but the basic story was my sister’s, the execution was hers, and it was just a matter of fitting the pieces together. Paolini continues, “When I was writing the second draft of Eragon, I was 16 and it amused me to put in a character who was a bit of a parody of my sister. Fortunately for me, she’s always taken it with good humor and the character has become one of the more interesting ones in the series. One of the reasons is because that character is very aware of her own situation, she’s basically meta-aware and know she’s in a story, and knows what kind of story she’s in. That’s a lot of fun.
I think the big stories do need that kind of trickster figure, whether it’s Tom Bombadil, or Loki, or Deadpool, or the trickster Coyote. There’s lots of those characters in fiction, and I think they provide an invaluable perspective, especially for epics. When you’re writing a big sprawling story that covers a continent and a half with dozens and dozens of characters, it’s nice to have a character who can stand outside all of it and maybe provide a pithy comment or two.”. As for the Urgals, ” Their sense of self, some of their religious beliefsI’ve always considered that they have a very strong sense of religion, but the way they view themselves, they even call a certain contingent among them the ‘Anointed,’ it ended up making them feel a bit nobler in my mind than perhaps I wrote them in Inheritance.
Of course, we always see ourselves differently from other people see us. In so many fantasy novels we have the big scary monsters who show up and kill people and disappear into the wilderness, but the question is: How do they see themselves? Do they have the capacity to change?”.