Board Thread:Roleplay Ideas/@comment-26065062-20160713125226/@comment-26065062-20160717142933

I'm going to ignore that there's a misspelled word in nearly every sentence and focus on the context. And Paolini simply picked the names he thought best fitted, and of course he took inspiration from LotR! It's the grandfather of fantasy. It is not a rip-off of Star Wars, it only uses the same narrative structure called "The Hero's Journey" (most notably documented and named by Joseph Campbell in his book "The Hero with a Thousand Faces", which pretty much every writer today has read), which G. Lucas used extensively in Star Wars. Any person with ANY knowledge about writing and narrative in general would know of this. Eragon isn't a "whiny, spoiled brat"; he's a teenager and he has never acted spoiled, whiny or like a brat. In all situations he did quite understandable things, if sometimes a little stupid, but hey, he's a 15-year-old at the start of the story and people do stupid stuff at that age pretty often. And you say "meaningless detail". Tolkien also had a lot of this "meaningless detail". Do you know why? Because the reader is supposed to know what the characters look like and Paolini puts it in in a very elegant and poetic way. And you say all the races are unoriginal. If you had read the other books, you would know that the elves have a quite different temperament than those in LotR, the Urgals actually have vibrant culture and are not just dumb brutes, but are warlike in their ways and that the dwarves also have quite a few differences (most of these are a lot subtler and take longer to explain, so I won't write them here - Read the books yourself!).

I think that counters every argument you've made pretty well, don't you think so?