Reeper wrote:Now for my two cents:
Personally I loved the Eragon books. Yes, I do acknowlege that the story of Eragon and Luke Skywalker are pretty much the exact same with some extremely minor changes, however, I enjoy them both immensely.
They both follow the Journey of the Hero as does almost every story ever written by man.![]()
The sad truth is, there's nothing new under the sun when it comes to storytelling. There are really only a handful of stories that are just personalized to fit an author's vision. For instance, almost any story you read that was written (or filmed, since film is just moving stories.) within the last ten or twenty years, and you can probably find countless similarities with it and either mythological stories from centuries ago, or even from any of William Shakespeare's works, (which were actually in and of themselves inspired by acient stories).
In a nutshell, there is no reason to argue about what came first the Tolkien orc or Lewis dwarf or whatever, we can all agree that an author hyas creative freedom, and that the LEGOcompany probably used tons of sources for their fantasy era LEGOs, and personally, I'm glad they did.![]()
Thanks for reading.
Blue Moon Knight wrote:Reeper wrote:Now for my two cents:
Personally I loved the Eragon books. Yes, I do acknowlege that the story of Eragon and Luke Skywalker are pretty much the exact same with some extremely minor changes, however, I enjoy them both immensely.
They both follow the Journey of the Hero as does almost every story ever written by man.![]()
The sad truth is, there's nothing new under the sun when it comes to storytelling. There are really only a handful of stories that are just personalized to fit an author's vision. For instance, almost any story you read that was written (or filmed, since film is just moving stories.) within the last ten or twenty years, and you can probably find countless similarities with it and either mythological stories from centuries ago, or even from any of William Shakespeare's works, (which were actually in and of themselves inspired by acient stories).
In a nutshell, there is no reason to argue about what came first the Tolkien orc or Lewis dwarf or whatever, we can all agree that an author hyas creative freedom, and that the LEGOcompany probably used tons of sources for their fantasy era LEGOs, and personally, I'm glad they did.![]()
Thanks for reading.
Agreed 100%.
mystuffiscool wrote:Agreed as well. Even though they're nearly identical, Inheritance yet remains my <strike>trilogy</strike> cycleof choice.
Reeper wrote:It's great to learn....
(because)' knowledge is power!!
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