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BTW Alcarillo, you against Paolini and other writers using Tolkien allusions? That's kinda the impression I got from your post. I'm not really against it, but I'm not really for it, so I guess I'm just neutral. I just noted those things.~Aragorn
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For me, it's not that big of a deal. I saw an interview Paolini did on the Today Show and he mentions Tolkien as being his biggest influence when writing the books.
Also, it happens all the time. Everything that can be written has been written, nothings completely original, you can always take a part of a book (or movie for that matter) and draw it back to a previous work.
I wish to pick up Eragon next from what I hear it's better written and a better style than Harry Potter. I've read the first two books, and almost now done with the third. From what I've seen the Harry Potter books are all...Happy, Happy, Happy...blop. All of a sudden you're hit with a big tragedy at the end.
Where Eragon and Eldest the problems are more inferred and are mixed in the story more natural, than the happy, happy, joy, joy...depressing.