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Paolini said: 'if I have difficulty choosing the correct moniker, I use a placeholder name until a replacement suggests itself.' He added that he was 'really lucky' with the name Eragon, 'because it's just dragon with one letter changed.' Also, Paolini commented that he thought of both parts of the name 'Eragon' - 'era' and 'gone' - as if the name itself changes the era in which the character lives.

I had a lot of fun with that.' Picking the right names for the characters and places was a process that could take 'days, weeks, or even years'. I found that it gave the world a much richer feel, a much older feel, using these words that had been around for centuries and centuries. Paolini commented: ' did a god-awful amount of research into the subject when I was composing it. The ancient language used by the elves in Eragon is based 'almost entirely' on Old Norse, German, Anglo Saxon, and Russian myth. Le Guin, Frank Herbert, Philip Pullman, and Garth Nix. Other literary influences include David Eddings, Andre Norton, Brian Jacques, Anne McCaffrey, Raymond E. Eddison as his biggest influences in writing. Paolini cites old myths, folk tales, medieval stories, the epic poem Beowulf, and authors J. Paolini received much inspiration from old epic poems. Inspiration and influences Īn illustration of Beowulf fighting the dragon (1908). The answer was yes, and after another round of editing, Knopf published Eragon in August 2003, with a new cover, drawn by John Jude Palencar. Michelle Frey, executive editor at Knopf, contacted Paolini and his family to ask if they were interested in having Knopf publish Eragon. He showed it to Hiaasen, who brought the book to the attention of the publishing house Alfred A. While there, Hiaasen's stepson bought a copy of Eragon that he 'immediately loved'. I couldn't have gone on for very much longer.' In the summer of 2002, American novelist Carl Hiaasen was on vacation in one of the cities that Paolini gave a talk in. Paolini said he 'would stand behind a table in my costume talking all day without a break – and would sell maybe forty books in eight hours if I did really well. He gave over 135 talks at bookshops, libraries, and schools, many with Paolini dressed up in a medieval costume but the book did not receive much attention. Paolini and his family toured across the United States promoting the book. Paolini created the cover art for this edition of Eragon, which featured Saphira's eye on the cover. They immediately saw its potential and decided to publish the book through their small, home-based publishing company, Paolini International. After another year of editing, Paolini's parents saw the final manuscript. It was finished a year later, and Paolini began writing the 'real' version of the book. After a month of planning out the series, he started writing the draft of Eragon by hand. He began reading everything he could about the 'art of writing', and then plotted the whole Inheritance Cycle book series.

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At the age of 14, as a hobby, he started writing the first novel in a series of four books, but he could not get beyond a few pages because he had 'no idea' where he was going. It placed on the New York Times Children's Books Best Seller list for 121 weeks and was adapted as a feature film of the same name that was released on December 15, 2006.īackground Origins and publication Ĭhristopher Paolini started reading fantasy books when he was 10 years old.

Brom, an old member of an extinct group called the Dragon Riders, teaches Eragon about 'The Ways of the Rider.'Įragon was the third-best-selling children's hardback book of 2003, and the second-best-selling paperback of 2005. When the evil King Galbatorix finds out about the egg, he sends monstrous servants to acquire it, making Eragon and Saphira flee from their hometown with a storyteller named Brom. The stone is revealed to be a dragon egg, and a dragon he later names Saphira hatches from it. The book tells the story of a farm boy named Eragon, who finds a mysterious stone in the mountains. The re-published version was released on August 26, 2003. The book was discovered by novelist Carl Hiaasen, who got it re-published by Alfred A. His parents saw the final manuscript and in 2001 decided to self-publish Eragon Paolini spent a year traveling around the United States promoting the novel. After writing the first draft for a year, Paolini spent a second year rewriting and fleshing out the story and characters. Paolini, born in 1983, began writing the novel after graduating from home school at age fifteen. Copies sold: 24.55 million Įragon is the first book in The Inheritance Cycle by American fantasy writer Christopher Paolini.