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There is something wrong with the timing in this section. If he graduated at 15 and wrote the novel over the next year he would be 16. If he 'fleshed out the characters' for the next year he would be 17 - if the novel was then published by his parents when he was 19 - what happened to the two years inbetween 17 and 19? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.69.137.8 ( talk) 13:41, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
Now I don´t have this verified but if memory serves me correctly, but I seem to remember reading a short bio of Paolini, which stated that it indeed took him 4 years from when he started writing the book as a personal thing to when it got published large-scale. Said time period was spent, as I recall, by writing the first time for himself, his parents and friends reading it,encouraging him, his rewriting and expansion of the whole thing, then some small-scale publishing mostly for friends and locals,and more chiselling work upon getting a publishing contract. So I think the years might be ok. 89.102.117.206 ( talk) 23:45, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
It can take a very long time to publish. Some publishers can take up to a year to even accept you book! Then you have to advertise the book. two years is a very normal time to have to wait for a book to be published. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Drewdaviper ( talk • contribs) 23:03, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
There is several incidents of vandalism evident in this article, particularly in the first two sections (notably dates and references to Middle-Earth). 67.188.86.109 05:42, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
I think there should be more info on the third book if anyone has any that they might know of they should post it promptly —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.116.38.170 ( talk) 22:53, 24 October 2007 (UTC) Of course that's true, but Brisingr hasn't been released yet, so there might not be tons of info floating out there. IceUnshattered ( talk) 21:08, 7 June 2008 (UTC) It's been published now, I'll drop by a bit later and see if I can add, but it already looks long. xD. I'll add what I know, though. - EshInoBi ( talk) 20:36, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
if you know when the 3rd book will be published you should put it up all i know is that it will supposedly be green with a dragon and rider and some people think it's title will be Empire in correspondence with the other books because they both start with an[E] and have seven letters
but most of all i want to know the publish date Anonymus reader that really likes the series Age 14 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.116.38.170 ( talk) 22:58, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
The third book will be out September 20, 2008 (US). I'm not sure in what country but it will come out on this date. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.37.34.29 ( talk • contribs)
What exactly is the purpose of this article? It seems merely to restate the information already available in the articles of the two published books (and multiple other IT articles) with no original or unique purpose of its own. If that is the purpose then the article is redundant and should be deleted. If it has a differrent purpose, then whatever the purpose is needs to be made clear and the article needs to be written to meet that purpose.
Also, Harry Potter series- Peanutbutter685
This should be renamed into the Inheritance Cycle, but the problem is that there already is an Inheritance Cycle wiki article. I think we should put on this article that Paolini chose to make the series a cycle because he couldn't fit everything into the 3rd book and then redirect them to the Inheritance Cycle article. EDIT: Nevermind, the Inheritance Trilogy already got changed to Inheritance Cycle. - EshInoBi ( talk) 20:37, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
I think it is better to have articles for the series and articles for the individual books. Seires articles should concentrate on the overall world. If WP decides its necessary to have individual book articles, then this is where the indepth plot should be discussed. More important than the plog is the big idea that controls the interaction of forces in the fictional realm
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The map of Alagaesia that's included in the book looks strikingly similar to that of Robert Jordan's wheel of time. Coincidence, plagiarism, or did he draw upon it for ideas? I don't think this merits going into the article, but hey, who knows? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.119.45.21 ( talk) 17:03, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
Jordan himself was hardly a trailblazer and considering the reasonable difference between the words Ajihad and Ajah (and the fact that there is no perceivable correlation in their function or use within their respective tales) it would be far easier to write off any plagiarism between Inheritance and WOT. Any similarity betweem those texts does not really transgress beyond what we have come to expct from the fantasy genre, which has really just become the sub-set of Tolkien's fan-fiction. The reason that Paolini has been specifically reprimanded for it by critics was because of the very, very obvious ties between his work, Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars. If anything, its threat is that it shows the modern fantasy writing industry for the hypocritical monster that it is. (Yay POV) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.45.110.225 ( talk) 15:13, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
Should spoiler tags be added over the characters section, or the synopsis sections? They seem spoiler enough to me, after all, it is revealed that Morzan is Eragon's and Murtagh's father. Talk about spoilers, that's two in a row, and a important one.
And thats no even true brom is eragons father...-- 401413Xr ( talk) 01:21, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
Why and when did Paolini change his trilogy into a cycle of four books? Shoudn´t that be mentioned?
He said it was the Inheritance Cycle on October 30th and he said he added a fourth because he had so much he wanted Eragon and Saphira to do that he couldn't fit it in one book. User:broncofreak12321 —Preceding comment was added at 02:07, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
good job broncofreak you know your stuff. hehe i'm broncofreak. User:Dursely —Preceding comment was added at 12:22, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
How can Eldest possibly be considered better reviewed when it was considered as one of the worst books of 2005? It's a total weasel word that is completely unsubstantiated. There doesn't need to be any remark about whether it was reviewed better or worse overall because we, frankly, have no way of being sure. Further, there is still no mention of his actual writing in the critical response section. I would think that is as imporrtant (if not more important) than the derivative nature stuff. DeviantCharles ( talk) 10:30, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
I like how some book articles (such as Jurassic Park) have a full page for general criticism, and yet THIS series - which has been widely accused of major derivative work - comes out the other side smelling of roses. Sounds like Fanboy editing to me. 22:13, 14 February 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.31.249.138 ( talk)
Maybe no-one cares enough to find the sources etc. to make a proper criticism section. 70.70.97.117 ( talk) 01:16, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
We should definitely make the criticism section into a whole page. If I had as much stamina as I did back in the day with Fable II, I would try it myself. I mean, if Wikipedia has a criticism section for Lord of the Rings, then they should DEFINITELY have one for this. This kid shouldn't be getting 15 million book sales for a simpler, dumbed down, and corrupted Lord of the Rings for 10 year olds. (No Signature)
OK. Hold on people. Here's a minor question I have for those who seem to hate the author's work. Which is odd because I'd think those who hated the book wouldn't want to waste their time editing a page on a book that they hate, when they could be spending their time on works they do like. Sounds to me like someone needs a life. If Paolini stole his plots and themes, then why have people like George Lucas not brought him up on charges? Why? Because they derived their ideas from others too.
As for a criticism page, sounds good. The reason the books are popular has a lot more to do with the characters than the story. I don't recall anyone charging him with the theft of characters. Now, the discussions on plot are another story. Everyone I've spoken with seems to be pissy because the author used a variety of plots for the book, some taken from sources such as LOTRs and Star Wars...Um, NEWS FLASH: To those who haven't deeply studied both fandoms, Tolkien openly admitted gleaming much of his work from history and folk legend. He just spent his entire life writing it. As for Star Wars and George Lucas, um...no one ever hear of Akira Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress and Tolkien. Movies like Alien, Blade Runner, and Mad Max helped pave the way for his final screenplays form in theme of a "used universe".
First of all, user 70.70.97.117 didn't even mention George Lucas, or Star Wars, and yet you do. Sounds like someone sees a connection between Star Wars and Inheritance! I do appreciate the author's work, or else I would not be here. I just think that you should not blame others for seeing a connection when you do also . Pumanike ( talk) 16:20, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
An interesting source for Lucas was "Joseph Campbell, the famous studier of myths and their common themes. He composed in The Hero with a Thousand Faces" (www. associated content.com/article/155406/the_influences_behind_george_lucass_pg2.html?cat=38 Note: remove spaces, I can't believe someone would blacklist that...geez...you people are something else...). I find it interesting that people in modern literary circles criticize people for using other authors ideas. Last I check that is how progress and literature is made. No one reinvents the wheel. We build of others ideas. I keep finding the piss poor arguments by people against authors such as Paolini redundant. If you have a problem with him using the ideas of others, then stop living in the demented, propaganda world of Bill Gates and find reality. Just because the man brilliantly made the copyrighting of ideas possible, the touch and feel of a product, doesn't mean that the world can operate on it. That is how Bill made the money, by copyrighting something he really shouldn't have been able to. The facts are, what you take issue with is something common to historical literature. An author likes an idea they see in their favorite works (great authors firstly are great readers, they should still teach that in writings as they do in music), then they take those themes, ideas, plots, etc. and blend them to their own ideas. In the case of Paolini, he does this. Now, another important fact is that good ideas can be invented by more than one person at a time, for example, the battery was invented several times over the course of history, lost and reinvented. People can invent ideas that are similar to others ideas. My grandfather was a mechanical engineer and in the 40's and 50's thought about inline skates...had he taken that idea and made something out of it he would have invented them, but someone else produced it first. The point is that people can have great ideas and be influenced by different or similar things. I believe the greatest example is the invention of the Calculus by Issac Newton and Leibnitz, who are credited with INDEPENDENTLY inventing the calculus.
Back to our discussion on the series, if you don't like the idea of people using others themes, than you are going to seriously limit literature. All those books you like have ideas taken from other places. OK, so you don't like Eragon using elves, well then, you can't have Tolkien either. No immortal elves, dang, that kills most of the fantasy publishing industry. See the problem? You don't like how obvious his influences are. OK, that's a literary problem, not an ideas problem. You want him to blend his ideas into a new medium, start a new chain of story, where the themes are less obvious, well, look at the stories without thinking they suck or they are thefts and look at the themes, all of them. What is Paolini looking for and talking about? Well, he focuses on a great deal of nature and the mountains. Tolkien was about that too, why? Because both grew up around nature, both feel comfortable around nature? Yes? Of course. So that is a common theme with the authors lives. You can't say he simply stole it.
There is a great deal more involved here, but I suggest we mellow down the criticism to cited sources and place an honest attempt at literary integrity. If someone criticizes him for the purposes of "I hate the series" that is what the talk pages are for. The main page is for serious literary criticism. I feel like so much of this is about critics being irrational, when most of the stuff out there is taken from somewhere else. Truth be told, we are living in a rather ignorant world, where the true authors are seen as completely original, where when truth be told, we are all thieves in our own way.
Before I end, back to the point about mellowing down to see something, if after you finish reading the stories and you find that they still are too obvious in their themes, then make a logical, rational...AND FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE, LOSE THE DAMN LOGICAL FALLACIES, I truly get sick of reading them, (i.e. "it sucks because it sucks", "because no one has ever found a cure for cancer, no cure will ever be found." you get the idea: Informal Logical Fallacies.) argument stating what problems you have with the story and why and post it. A source is contingent based on what the argument of the text is. In the case of an editorial, if the editorial happens to be written from an good argument basis then it of course is valid criticism. The emotive criticism you see plastered over the headlines can only be used if the person is an authoritative head, but even still, if they cannot write coherent, "logically" structured arguments, then breaking down even that is child's play. Just write up some good arguments and post them. The biggest problem to date is flame vs. criticism.
-- Dragoon91786 ( talk) 03:39, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
Should Dragon Riders be put under the catergory of Characters seeing as they are a group of characters and not a character? Xanormin ( talk) 18:12, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
Brom and Belgarath are very similar. Both are storytellers who reveal their identities as dabblers in magic and then compotent magicians. It's also similar how Eragon and Garion first use magic. Eragon says "Brisingr!" in rage and burns some Urgals, and Garion says "Burn" in rage and burns a Murgo. The name for the Urgal race is also very similar to Murgo. I think that these similarities should be discussed in the article. Ianschow ( talk) 04:07, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
I've never heard their names before and yet they're on the list of characters. There are no articles on them and I don't think they were ever mentioned in the book. Are they like characters that paolini has released but not put in a book yet?
If anyone knows, please respond.
Should I make a new part about traslations? Where shuld it be? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 401413Xr ( talk • contribs) 01:28, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
I have read a lot of scifi and also noticed how much these books pull from so many others. But I was surprised to see no mention of how much was drawn from The Wheel of Time. I mean, the first few chapters are so similar I did a double take. Could this be added? I'm alone in this? I'm new to this, but I feel this is worth pointing out. 24.93.25.166 ( talk) 02:37, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
Who the hell wrote this?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.33.174.133 ( talk) 01:51, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
Doesn't matter; it's already been removed.
Spinach Dip 08:10, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
As much as I dislike the series, in Wikipedia's best interest, I think that the long lists here (Characters, locations) should be shortened down or even removed, as there are whole pages containing info. Throwing in a thought. 72.237.55.2 ( talk) 00:28, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
For those who haven't already noticed, I've nominated these two articles for deletion. The deletion discussion can be found here. Thanks, Una Laguna Talk 10:29, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
I think it should be mentioned that the "ancient" language is basically just icelandic with a few letters removed —Preceding unsigned comment added by 157.157.217.247 ( talk) 00:08, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
I think that the order of this article should be changed. The plot of the actual books might even be separated into separate articles, but that is separate from my point. I think the lead of this article should concentrate around the Archetypical 'bigger picture', and I would like to add some references to some analysis from academics.
While I gather my references, I'd like to hear any comments on rearranging the article to put the plots of the stories below the 'bigger picture' items such as race, language, magic and history.
WovenLore (
talk) 18:50, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
there are some inconsistencies in the list of characters, eg: present tense for Oromis when it is meant to be past tense. Also Katrina is not mentioned. I am fixing some of these but if any of you see anything wrong please feel free to fix it. Maybe this should be put at the top ofthe page on one of those banner-things, that say this page needs refereces, expert persons etc.
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"This is the much-anticipated, astonishing conclusion to the worldwide bestselling Inheritance cycle." "This full-color book provides 15 spreads chock full of spectacular artwork, engaging novelty elements, and fascinating insights into Eragon’s home." The article is meant to give an overview of the books, not copy the back covers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.126.46.48 ( talk) 07:36, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
I've cleaned the article up a little and moved some of the content around. I've also taken a large portion of the characters list out, as all of its content is available at List of Inheritance Cycle characters, and the section was becoming very long. Any feedback? Noom talk stalk 15:25, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
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I think that List of Inheritance Cycle characters should be merged here. The list is full of WP:TRIVIA and there is absolutely no real-world coverage. SpringBeauty ( talk) 19:28, 25 March 2017 (UTC)
The reception section doesn't make sense, even on a grammatical level. 2A02:1810:151C:E00:FD62:1B89:E7DF:8040 ( talk) 00:01, 15 November 2020 (UTC)
§ Inhabitants consists of two (top-level) sentences, the first of which consists in large part of one of the worst misuses of parentheses I've ever seen, if not indeed the worst:
The double- and triple-indented sections modify "weredogs/werewolves" and should be popped out into a separate sentence or three, coming after the end of the monster sentence ("Ra'zac.") or at the end of the paragraph.
Ra'zac are the only kind mentioned here with no explanation, though Urgals could really use one as well; what differentiates them from humans if they're under 8 feet tall?
I'm unfamiliar with the series, so I'm not even going to try to fix this, but somebody sure should. -- Thnidu ( talk) 21:50, 12 July 2021 (UTC)
Any interest in including the newly released Murtagh book in this article? Or would it be better to create a standalone article for the book? Should it be considered a part of the series or simply a sequel set in the same world with many of the same characters? gingerlines ( talk) 20:15, 11 November 2023 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: Not moved. There is consensus against this proposal right now after several listing periods, because no evidence of compliance with the WP:NAMECHANGES guideline has been shown in the nom. The only source given is a primary source of the author's own video talking about this. — Amakuru ( talk) 11:51, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
The Inheritance Cycle → World of Eragon – Christopher Paolini expanded the Inheritance Cycle into the World of Eragon, which encompasses the cycle and the related books: see here Tenebra Blu ( talk) 18:34, 23 February 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. ASUKITE 03:02, 4 March 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. JML1148 ( talk | contribs) 07:47, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
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There is something wrong with the timing in this section. If he graduated at 15 and wrote the novel over the next year he would be 16. If he 'fleshed out the characters' for the next year he would be 17 - if the novel was then published by his parents when he was 19 - what happened to the two years inbetween 17 and 19? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.69.137.8 ( talk) 13:41, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
Now I don´t have this verified but if memory serves me correctly, but I seem to remember reading a short bio of Paolini, which stated that it indeed took him 4 years from when he started writing the book as a personal thing to when it got published large-scale. Said time period was spent, as I recall, by writing the first time for himself, his parents and friends reading it,encouraging him, his rewriting and expansion of the whole thing, then some small-scale publishing mostly for friends and locals,and more chiselling work upon getting a publishing contract. So I think the years might be ok. 89.102.117.206 ( talk) 23:45, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
It can take a very long time to publish. Some publishers can take up to a year to even accept you book! Then you have to advertise the book. two years is a very normal time to have to wait for a book to be published. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Drewdaviper ( talk • contribs) 23:03, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
There is several incidents of vandalism evident in this article, particularly in the first two sections (notably dates and references to Middle-Earth). 67.188.86.109 05:42, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
I think there should be more info on the third book if anyone has any that they might know of they should post it promptly —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.116.38.170 ( talk) 22:53, 24 October 2007 (UTC) Of course that's true, but Brisingr hasn't been released yet, so there might not be tons of info floating out there. IceUnshattered ( talk) 21:08, 7 June 2008 (UTC) It's been published now, I'll drop by a bit later and see if I can add, but it already looks long. xD. I'll add what I know, though. - EshInoBi ( talk) 20:36, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
if you know when the 3rd book will be published you should put it up all i know is that it will supposedly be green with a dragon and rider and some people think it's title will be Empire in correspondence with the other books because they both start with an[E] and have seven letters
but most of all i want to know the publish date Anonymus reader that really likes the series Age 14 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.116.38.170 ( talk) 22:58, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
The third book will be out September 20, 2008 (US). I'm not sure in what country but it will come out on this date. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.37.34.29 ( talk • contribs)
What exactly is the purpose of this article? It seems merely to restate the information already available in the articles of the two published books (and multiple other IT articles) with no original or unique purpose of its own. If that is the purpose then the article is redundant and should be deleted. If it has a differrent purpose, then whatever the purpose is needs to be made clear and the article needs to be written to meet that purpose.
Also, Harry Potter series- Peanutbutter685
This should be renamed into the Inheritance Cycle, but the problem is that there already is an Inheritance Cycle wiki article. I think we should put on this article that Paolini chose to make the series a cycle because he couldn't fit everything into the 3rd book and then redirect them to the Inheritance Cycle article. EDIT: Nevermind, the Inheritance Trilogy already got changed to Inheritance Cycle. - EshInoBi ( talk) 20:37, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
I think it is better to have articles for the series and articles for the individual books. Seires articles should concentrate on the overall world. If WP decides its necessary to have individual book articles, then this is where the indepth plot should be discussed. More important than the plog is the big idea that controls the interaction of forces in the fictional realm
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The map of Alagaesia that's included in the book looks strikingly similar to that of Robert Jordan's wheel of time. Coincidence, plagiarism, or did he draw upon it for ideas? I don't think this merits going into the article, but hey, who knows? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.119.45.21 ( talk) 17:03, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
Jordan himself was hardly a trailblazer and considering the reasonable difference between the words Ajihad and Ajah (and the fact that there is no perceivable correlation in their function or use within their respective tales) it would be far easier to write off any plagiarism between Inheritance and WOT. Any similarity betweem those texts does not really transgress beyond what we have come to expct from the fantasy genre, which has really just become the sub-set of Tolkien's fan-fiction. The reason that Paolini has been specifically reprimanded for it by critics was because of the very, very obvious ties between his work, Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars. If anything, its threat is that it shows the modern fantasy writing industry for the hypocritical monster that it is. (Yay POV) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.45.110.225 ( talk) 15:13, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
Should spoiler tags be added over the characters section, or the synopsis sections? They seem spoiler enough to me, after all, it is revealed that Morzan is Eragon's and Murtagh's father. Talk about spoilers, that's two in a row, and a important one.
And thats no even true brom is eragons father...-- 401413Xr ( talk) 01:21, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
Why and when did Paolini change his trilogy into a cycle of four books? Shoudn´t that be mentioned?
He said it was the Inheritance Cycle on October 30th and he said he added a fourth because he had so much he wanted Eragon and Saphira to do that he couldn't fit it in one book. User:broncofreak12321 —Preceding comment was added at 02:07, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
good job broncofreak you know your stuff. hehe i'm broncofreak. User:Dursely —Preceding comment was added at 12:22, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
How can Eldest possibly be considered better reviewed when it was considered as one of the worst books of 2005? It's a total weasel word that is completely unsubstantiated. There doesn't need to be any remark about whether it was reviewed better or worse overall because we, frankly, have no way of being sure. Further, there is still no mention of his actual writing in the critical response section. I would think that is as imporrtant (if not more important) than the derivative nature stuff. DeviantCharles ( talk) 10:30, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
I like how some book articles (such as Jurassic Park) have a full page for general criticism, and yet THIS series - which has been widely accused of major derivative work - comes out the other side smelling of roses. Sounds like Fanboy editing to me. 22:13, 14 February 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.31.249.138 ( talk)
Maybe no-one cares enough to find the sources etc. to make a proper criticism section. 70.70.97.117 ( talk) 01:16, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
We should definitely make the criticism section into a whole page. If I had as much stamina as I did back in the day with Fable II, I would try it myself. I mean, if Wikipedia has a criticism section for Lord of the Rings, then they should DEFINITELY have one for this. This kid shouldn't be getting 15 million book sales for a simpler, dumbed down, and corrupted Lord of the Rings for 10 year olds. (No Signature)
OK. Hold on people. Here's a minor question I have for those who seem to hate the author's work. Which is odd because I'd think those who hated the book wouldn't want to waste their time editing a page on a book that they hate, when they could be spending their time on works they do like. Sounds to me like someone needs a life. If Paolini stole his plots and themes, then why have people like George Lucas not brought him up on charges? Why? Because they derived their ideas from others too.
As for a criticism page, sounds good. The reason the books are popular has a lot more to do with the characters than the story. I don't recall anyone charging him with the theft of characters. Now, the discussions on plot are another story. Everyone I've spoken with seems to be pissy because the author used a variety of plots for the book, some taken from sources such as LOTRs and Star Wars...Um, NEWS FLASH: To those who haven't deeply studied both fandoms, Tolkien openly admitted gleaming much of his work from history and folk legend. He just spent his entire life writing it. As for Star Wars and George Lucas, um...no one ever hear of Akira Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress and Tolkien. Movies like Alien, Blade Runner, and Mad Max helped pave the way for his final screenplays form in theme of a "used universe".
First of all, user 70.70.97.117 didn't even mention George Lucas, or Star Wars, and yet you do. Sounds like someone sees a connection between Star Wars and Inheritance! I do appreciate the author's work, or else I would not be here. I just think that you should not blame others for seeing a connection when you do also . Pumanike ( talk) 16:20, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
An interesting source for Lucas was "Joseph Campbell, the famous studier of myths and their common themes. He composed in The Hero with a Thousand Faces" (www. associated content.com/article/155406/the_influences_behind_george_lucass_pg2.html?cat=38 Note: remove spaces, I can't believe someone would blacklist that...geez...you people are something else...). I find it interesting that people in modern literary circles criticize people for using other authors ideas. Last I check that is how progress and literature is made. No one reinvents the wheel. We build of others ideas. I keep finding the piss poor arguments by people against authors such as Paolini redundant. If you have a problem with him using the ideas of others, then stop living in the demented, propaganda world of Bill Gates and find reality. Just because the man brilliantly made the copyrighting of ideas possible, the touch and feel of a product, doesn't mean that the world can operate on it. That is how Bill made the money, by copyrighting something he really shouldn't have been able to. The facts are, what you take issue with is something common to historical literature. An author likes an idea they see in their favorite works (great authors firstly are great readers, they should still teach that in writings as they do in music), then they take those themes, ideas, plots, etc. and blend them to their own ideas. In the case of Paolini, he does this. Now, another important fact is that good ideas can be invented by more than one person at a time, for example, the battery was invented several times over the course of history, lost and reinvented. People can invent ideas that are similar to others ideas. My grandfather was a mechanical engineer and in the 40's and 50's thought about inline skates...had he taken that idea and made something out of it he would have invented them, but someone else produced it first. The point is that people can have great ideas and be influenced by different or similar things. I believe the greatest example is the invention of the Calculus by Issac Newton and Leibnitz, who are credited with INDEPENDENTLY inventing the calculus.
Back to our discussion on the series, if you don't like the idea of people using others themes, than you are going to seriously limit literature. All those books you like have ideas taken from other places. OK, so you don't like Eragon using elves, well then, you can't have Tolkien either. No immortal elves, dang, that kills most of the fantasy publishing industry. See the problem? You don't like how obvious his influences are. OK, that's a literary problem, not an ideas problem. You want him to blend his ideas into a new medium, start a new chain of story, where the themes are less obvious, well, look at the stories without thinking they suck or they are thefts and look at the themes, all of them. What is Paolini looking for and talking about? Well, he focuses on a great deal of nature and the mountains. Tolkien was about that too, why? Because both grew up around nature, both feel comfortable around nature? Yes? Of course. So that is a common theme with the authors lives. You can't say he simply stole it.
There is a great deal more involved here, but I suggest we mellow down the criticism to cited sources and place an honest attempt at literary integrity. If someone criticizes him for the purposes of "I hate the series" that is what the talk pages are for. The main page is for serious literary criticism. I feel like so much of this is about critics being irrational, when most of the stuff out there is taken from somewhere else. Truth be told, we are living in a rather ignorant world, where the true authors are seen as completely original, where when truth be told, we are all thieves in our own way.
Before I end, back to the point about mellowing down to see something, if after you finish reading the stories and you find that they still are too obvious in their themes, then make a logical, rational...AND FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE, LOSE THE DAMN LOGICAL FALLACIES, I truly get sick of reading them, (i.e. "it sucks because it sucks", "because no one has ever found a cure for cancer, no cure will ever be found." you get the idea: Informal Logical Fallacies.) argument stating what problems you have with the story and why and post it. A source is contingent based on what the argument of the text is. In the case of an editorial, if the editorial happens to be written from an good argument basis then it of course is valid criticism. The emotive criticism you see plastered over the headlines can only be used if the person is an authoritative head, but even still, if they cannot write coherent, "logically" structured arguments, then breaking down even that is child's play. Just write up some good arguments and post them. The biggest problem to date is flame vs. criticism.
-- Dragoon91786 ( talk) 03:39, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
Should Dragon Riders be put under the catergory of Characters seeing as they are a group of characters and not a character? Xanormin ( talk) 18:12, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
Brom and Belgarath are very similar. Both are storytellers who reveal their identities as dabblers in magic and then compotent magicians. It's also similar how Eragon and Garion first use magic. Eragon says "Brisingr!" in rage and burns some Urgals, and Garion says "Burn" in rage and burns a Murgo. The name for the Urgal race is also very similar to Murgo. I think that these similarities should be discussed in the article. Ianschow ( talk) 04:07, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
I've never heard their names before and yet they're on the list of characters. There are no articles on them and I don't think they were ever mentioned in the book. Are they like characters that paolini has released but not put in a book yet?
If anyone knows, please respond.
Should I make a new part about traslations? Where shuld it be? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 401413Xr ( talk • contribs) 01:28, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
I have read a lot of scifi and also noticed how much these books pull from so many others. But I was surprised to see no mention of how much was drawn from The Wheel of Time. I mean, the first few chapters are so similar I did a double take. Could this be added? I'm alone in this? I'm new to this, but I feel this is worth pointing out. 24.93.25.166 ( talk) 02:37, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
Who the hell wrote this?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.33.174.133 ( talk) 01:51, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
Doesn't matter; it's already been removed.
Spinach Dip 08:10, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
As much as I dislike the series, in Wikipedia's best interest, I think that the long lists here (Characters, locations) should be shortened down or even removed, as there are whole pages containing info. Throwing in a thought. 72.237.55.2 ( talk) 00:28, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
For those who haven't already noticed, I've nominated these two articles for deletion. The deletion discussion can be found here. Thanks, Una Laguna Talk 10:29, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
I think it should be mentioned that the "ancient" language is basically just icelandic with a few letters removed —Preceding unsigned comment added by 157.157.217.247 ( talk) 00:08, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
I think that the order of this article should be changed. The plot of the actual books might even be separated into separate articles, but that is separate from my point. I think the lead of this article should concentrate around the Archetypical 'bigger picture', and I would like to add some references to some analysis from academics.
While I gather my references, I'd like to hear any comments on rearranging the article to put the plots of the stories below the 'bigger picture' items such as race, language, magic and history.
WovenLore (
talk) 18:50, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
there are some inconsistencies in the list of characters, eg: present tense for Oromis when it is meant to be past tense. Also Katrina is not mentioned. I am fixing some of these but if any of you see anything wrong please feel free to fix it. Maybe this should be put at the top ofthe page on one of those banner-things, that say this page needs refereces, expert persons etc.
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"This is the much-anticipated, astonishing conclusion to the worldwide bestselling Inheritance cycle." "This full-color book provides 15 spreads chock full of spectacular artwork, engaging novelty elements, and fascinating insights into Eragon’s home." The article is meant to give an overview of the books, not copy the back covers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.126.46.48 ( talk) 07:36, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
I've cleaned the article up a little and moved some of the content around. I've also taken a large portion of the characters list out, as all of its content is available at List of Inheritance Cycle characters, and the section was becoming very long. Any feedback? Noom talk stalk 15:25, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
Added some book stats, primarily from the Inheritance Wikia. If anyone has any better stats or sources, please include them! I tried finding publisher stats (for a little bit) and I didn't find any -- Dantiston ( talk) 20:06, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
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I think that List of Inheritance Cycle characters should be merged here. The list is full of WP:TRIVIA and there is absolutely no real-world coverage. SpringBeauty ( talk) 19:28, 25 March 2017 (UTC)
The reception section doesn't make sense, even on a grammatical level. 2A02:1810:151C:E00:FD62:1B89:E7DF:8040 ( talk) 00:01, 15 November 2020 (UTC)
§ Inhabitants consists of two (top-level) sentences, the first of which consists in large part of one of the worst misuses of parentheses I've ever seen, if not indeed the worst:
The double- and triple-indented sections modify "weredogs/werewolves" and should be popped out into a separate sentence or three, coming after the end of the monster sentence ("Ra'zac.") or at the end of the paragraph.
Ra'zac are the only kind mentioned here with no explanation, though Urgals could really use one as well; what differentiates them from humans if they're under 8 feet tall?
I'm unfamiliar with the series, so I'm not even going to try to fix this, but somebody sure should. -- Thnidu ( talk) 21:50, 12 July 2021 (UTC)
Any interest in including the newly released Murtagh book in this article? Or would it be better to create a standalone article for the book? Should it be considered a part of the series or simply a sequel set in the same world with many of the same characters? gingerlines ( talk) 20:15, 11 November 2023 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: Not moved. There is consensus against this proposal right now after several listing periods, because no evidence of compliance with the WP:NAMECHANGES guideline has been shown in the nom. The only source given is a primary source of the author's own video talking about this. — Amakuru ( talk) 11:51, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
The Inheritance Cycle → World of Eragon – Christopher Paolini expanded the Inheritance Cycle into the World of Eragon, which encompasses the cycle and the related books: see here Tenebra Blu ( talk) 18:34, 23 February 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. ASUKITE 03:02, 4 March 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. JML1148 ( talk | contribs) 07:47, 11 March 2024 (UTC)