Editing Eragon (section)

==The Setting==
While the books are alright, the setting is <s>[[Original character, do not steal|OC Do Not Steal]]</s> a blatant copy of [[Lord of the Rings|Middle-Earth (right down to having similar names for people and places)]].  A few examples include the Princess Leia/Arwen figure, Arya ''(her name; Arwen + Leia = Arya.  Or he read some of the '[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]' book series and took the name from Arya Stark).'' Her mother is the [[elf]] queen Galadriel... I mean Islanzadi, the latter seeming like a rip-off of the former at first; except Islanzadi proves to be a vengeful and incompetent queen who got the job because her hubby died and her daughter didn't want it... then she dies strangely easily in single combat with a [[human]]. The only similarities to Galadriel are her name being an elf queen who lives in a forest ''(called Lothlorien... I mean Du Weldenvarden)'' .  There's also [[Dwarves]] and [[orc]] rip-offs called Urgals ''(the latter have Uruk-hai rip-offs called Kull)'' in the story along with language guides at the end of each book.  Eragon also meets two Yoda figures in the form of the elf Dragon Rider Oromis and his dragon Glaedr living in a remote region.  They're both admittedly badass as they eventually fight despite being handicapped.  Glaedr's missing a leg while Oromis suffers from something similar to epileptic fits; SPOILER they both die, while Glaedr even has a form of existence after death to advise them. And then Murtagh is basically a Darth Vader substitute; he has a red sword, works for the big bad, and tries to turn Eragon 'evil'. And - GASP - he's actually related to the Eragon. which he tells him, after he defeats him in a big 'oh no, it's not possible!' moment. and the whole while he's a character striving for redemption. 

Of course, many have pointed out the name "Eragon" is very similar to "Aragorn". Though the name itself comes from the word "dragon", but using an "E" since it's the letter immediately after "D", the idea being "dragon +1" ''(though a better name for that is Edragon; which actually isn't that bad a name)'' and...look, the reasoning is just as stupid as it sounds.

Tl; dr: Fairly mediocre series overall. More positive then bad, but not outstanding in any particularly category, and clearly not original in the slightest. There are a few reason it got popular though. One: because it was advertised as being a story the author wrote when he was a teen, and that was an interesting gimmick (although it sure didn't hurt that his parents owned the publishing company...). Two: they are as far as books go, digestible; that is to say a teen can easily read them, they're not dense like Lord of The Rings can be at time, so they're easy to get into at that sort of impressionable age demographic. and Three the fact the cover art for all the books is a big fuck off eye attention grabbing dragon probably also helped that aforementioned late child/early teen reader pick that book off the school library shelf for a read.