There are actually some incredible Inheritance fanfics out there, better than the series itself. I would reccomend Opifex's series: http://fanfiction.shurtugal.com/viewseries.php?seriesid=120

If nothing else, definitely read From White to Black, which details Galbatorix's backstory and is an absolute epic. She's also published and currently writing a series, which I personally would eat up. So yeah. Just sayin'.

Back on topic though, trust me when I say you're not the first to try to get through to the folks at IF. They're either young and ignorant or old and retarded (old by the standards of IF meaning university-aged). Eh, good luck.

Sturgeon’s Law applies here.

Why don’t you check the trope title again?

Oh, true.

Hey, I joined just before I read this thread.
Together we will fight the power of rabid fans!

and hopefully not get banned.

Heh, if you guys talk about Eragon like you do on here, you’ll probably get banned pretty fast! I’d go troll some Twilight forums, but I’m too scared after reading that xkcd strip… remember, CP was homeschooled. He probably knows the Internet. Unless you want Book Four to be a crossover with Eragon going on 4chan… ;)

Okay, whats your user name? :P
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Same as here. But my account hasn't been activated yet.


I’d go troll some Twilight forums, but I’m too scared after reading that xkcd strip… remember, CP was homeschooled. He probably knows the Internet. Unless you want Book Four to be a crossover with Eragon going on 4chan… ;)
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Or CP somehow works it out that Galby writes for Impishidea, so all the Eragon fans come and storm our forums.

Damn it, they still haven't acctivated my account!

Or your junk folder.

Yeah, check your spam box, because that's where I fond mine. :P

I've had several pretty bad experiences with IF...

http://www.inheritanceforums.com/index.php?showtopic=49281&st=0

Wow, there's a actually a debate there already.

For the most part, the fans are too young/think too immaturely to debate properly with anyway. Just read that thread linked for evidence.

It won’t let me read anything. It won’t even let me sign up for an account.

Maybe I’ve been preemptively IP banned?

Quote from the forums on there:

Star Wars does suck. I actually really like Inheritance.
The only things I don’t like is the Eragon is a Mary Sue and Nasuada’s becoming a tyrant.

WTF? Star Wars sucks? It’s the same plot as Eragon, and 100x better because it came first.

Plus… Eragon being a Mary Sue? How can you even say that you ‘really like’ a book series when the main character is a Mary Sue, with serious sociopathic issues.

I’m so happy to have my impishly impish ImpishIdea.

UGH. They STILL have not verfied my account. I wanna post!
Maybe I'll PM a mod....

I’m not homeschooled and I agree with old-fashioned morality. We must be just weirdos. ;)

(late reply)

@swenson

>Did you (or someone else in your house) ever sign up there before and get banned?

No. That’s what’s so weird.

Nobody has made an account from my house – not my brothers, not my sister, not my parents, and certainly not me.

THEY JUST KNOW.

DUN DUN DUN.

But what will you post?!
Try to get in the monthly quiz. If you succeed, I will reward you with chocolate chip cookies, and d3 internets.

O.o If anyone feels like trolling and continuing this little discussion, they should post the Eragon/Star Wars summary from one of the old II articles.

You’re earned my eternal love.

Do they know where we are?
As long as everyone remembers to check for tracking beacons when leaving their forum, we should be alright.

"If you look hard enough, all books are derivative..."
Yeah, sure. I'll grant you that, if you look hard enough. But you don't even need to look with *coughcough* certain books. They beat you over the head with it.

“If you look hard enough, all fiction is derivative…”

Because, clearly Blade Runner and Hamlet are identical, in every sense of the word.

Who’s talking about books? I’m talking about Blade Runner and Hamlet

Instead of being printed on paper, books could start being like projected onto surfaces. Like those infrared keyboards that project a picturey thingy of a keyboard on the table and u tap the pictures and it detects what "key" you are "pressing". The same concept could be applied to books where you project it down and tap the top or bottom corner to turn the page.

My first post:
http://www.inheritanceforums.com/index.php?showtopic=49778

I created a new account because the site was being screwy, so now I'm ImpishPuppet on IF.
(I tried Puppet though they said that was taken, but when I searched the users I didn't find anybody called "Puppet")

Yes you can. Edit the subject line.

The reason they think it relates is because all of them follow the Hero’s Journey. The Matrix & The Lion King [I think] follow the same thing too. But they’re all radically different in their plot, setting, and characters. Except for Eragon and Star Wars, that is.

Well, yes, but almost every fantasy book until very recently has most of these elements.

As opposed to Eragon & Star Wars, which is too long to list.

I agree.

It was just a voice, though.

^^ The thread where I shamelessly stole stuff from ImpishIdea. xD

I’m Rhianna on there. Annoying everyone with my questions about the series that just end up portraying it in a negative light. xD

Uhg, I hate how that forum is so untidy, you can’t see a thing, and everything seems out of place.

My brain has died.

Alright, he got inspired by the plot of Star Wars. I won’t deny it, but I don’t see anything really wrong with that. I still think it’s a great story. It has a lot Star Wars doesn’t have, like dragons, and a fantasy setting instead of a sci-fi one. If that’s enough to make me like Inheritance a lot more that Star Wars (which I do), that what’s the real problem with similar plots?

Lesson of the Day: Guess what, kids? There’s nothing wrong with stealing!

I know, right?

I have this AWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEESOMEEEEEEE IDEA planned. It’s gonna be lyke this story where this short guy who sparkles in the sunlight finds a magical piece of jewelry, and he has to destroy it in an evvvvvvvvvvvil fire in an eeeeeeeeeeeevvvvvvvvil mountain in an eeeeeeeeeeeeviiiiiiilllllll land that is ruled by an eeeeeeeeevvvvvvvvvvvvillllllllll vampire that sucks people’s blood.

Look at me! I’m a child prodigy at the age of 16. I’ll just say I started working on it two years ago. I can’t be bested by Pao-Pao!

I have this AWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEESOMEEEEEEE IDEA planned. It’s gonna be lyke this story where this short guy who sparkles in the sunlight finds a magical piece of jewelry, and he has to destroy it in an evvvvvvvvvvvil fire in an eeeeeeeeeeeevvvvvvvvil mountain in an eeeeeeeeeeeeviiiiiiilllllll land that is ruled by an eeeeeeeeevvvvvvvvvvvvillllllllll vampire that sucks people’s blood.

Look at me! I’m a child prodigy at the age of 16. I’ll just say I started working on it two years ago. I can’t be bested by Pao-Pao!

That’s lame conpered to my story, it’s about a poor orphan named Nogare who lives with his cousin, and one day he finds a big diamond in the forest while hunting, so he brings it to his uncle, but it turns out to be a dragon, named Arihpsa, he then becomes a dragon knight, and is bestowed the duty of protecting the buitefull lands of Aiseagala, then he finds out that bad poeple killed his family, so he goes with the fool from the village and kills them, before joining the rebel force called the Nedarv, he also picks up a elf name Ayra, and a human named Hgatrum, then he fights a shade called Azrud, and fights an army of Lagrus.

You spelled Arihpas wrong.

NU U STFU B4 I CAL POLIZ!!!!

OK I DUNT BAN U I JUS KIL U

I used to be a big thing over there. I was the God-Emperor of Trolls and Roleplaying, with my primary competition being EyesOnly, who was arguably the biggest moron I have ever met. If I recall correctly, he hated Inheritance but loved Dragons: Lexicon Triumvirate.

EyesOnly was a big douchebag, but I can’t remember who was worse of the two – him or Aaron? I seem to remember them both being of equal douchebaggery, but Aaron was friends with the administration so had more leeway.

I still recall EO’s lightsaber physics and someone’s complete annihilation of his retardation.

This was like, 2 years ago. No way I’ll ever manage to fish it out again.

More quotes from that crazed place:

I like the similarities between LOTR and IC. To me, its a deeper understanding of characters and races between the worlds and brings some cool ideas to mind if the books are read again.

bashes forehead against wall Some people aren’t even worth trying to convert.

Don't you know that the Inheritance characters are extremely deep? Statements like "Eragon may be the most deadly man in Alagaesia but he was not a hard and cruel man." This is excellent characterization! And Eragon is such a philosopher. The sentence "The songs of the dead are the lamentations of the living" made so much sense!

Anyway I got this great idea for a book. It tells of a farmboy who grew up in a desert. His parents disappeared and someone dropped him off with his uncle and aunt. The boy finds a man lying by the road. He is injured and dying. The dying man passed him a letter and tried to tell him something before passing on. The boy wonders what it is and he finds a bangle inside. He returns home to find that his house has been burnt down. Then an old woman finds him and takes him away. The bangle is actually the One Bangle, forged by the Dark Lord and it has the power to enslave Umlautis (The name of the country). Then he embarks on a journey, while being pursued by cloaked menaces who were once men but were consumed by the Dark Lord. Turns out the old man is actually part of an ancient lineage and that the boy is the Chosen One. Their mission is to destroy the Bangle in the pits of River Doom. Along the way they form the fellowship. Oh, it will also be a trilogy!

This plot in my opinion is perfect! Is it derivative? No. All works are derivative. Anyway it is clearly different.

Hmm...I think for the love interest, it is this girl who always keeps a hood on at all times. She only removes it at night. Then it is revealed that she is an elf. And elves in my universe drink blood. And they can be identified by the way they sparkle in the sunlight. Waaait... I shall make the main character a female! And make the love interest an elven male. Who is just so gorgeous the Stars of Ivundalisaka pales in comparison to his beauty! That way, I can catch the Twilight crowd too!

The sentence “The songs of the dead are the lamentations of the living” made so much sense!

I think that line is stolen from Waiting for Godot (not verbatim).