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Default Eragon - 12-21-2006, 14:49

OK, I didn't read all of that, but I'd just like to comment on two things.

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He looked human except for his crimson hair and maroon eyes.
I make no claims to being anywhere near ready to getting anything published, but seriously...I wrote like that when I was twelve. It's just not good writing. It's half-baked, and the kind of thing you read when people are describing their own characters in those online roleplay threads.

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They resembled men with bowed legs and thick, brutish arms made for crushing.
I take it the Urgals are orc-like creatures? You know, what with being described as almost exactly the same as they were in LOTR? I remember this description distinctly. This isn't just a stolen plot. I really don't see how this isn't outright plagiarism. This is just one example in an entire trilogy, true, but still much too close to Tolkien's exact words for comfort.


And I said to myself, 'I am glad that I am not a clockfeet.'

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