Fan Arts inspired by Inheritance Cycle

A 'google' for the term Eragon always brings up images of Eragon, the movie that is so much unlike its inspiration, Eragon, the book. So I wanted to see for myself how the descriptions of the books will look like when drawn for I have had really great imaginations running in my brain. But unfortunately my drawing skills have been abysmal and never can hand match brain. Even so, I liked these fan-arts. They aren't perfect, but they will help people shift away from the image the movie has created in our minds. Further there was also the Eragon's Guide to Alagaesia with its share of images. They were great too, but I have to say that in my mind everything is a lot more different and a lot more beautiful. But as I said brain is always stupendous when it comes to imagination.

Alagaesia Map

Explaining Arya

A depiction of Ellesméra, Arya's home town in Eragon's Guide to Alagaësia

In my last post, I had defended the Inheritance Cycle by explaining how the views about it were skewed. I did that piece after having read the 3 released books of the Inheritance Cycle over and over for many times and while painstakingly waiting for the fourth book to be released. But that which made me write it were the various Anti-Eragon articles floating around the web in the form of blogs, bulletin boards, etc. Usually I don't read reviews of books that I read. I judge them by myself. But in the case of the Inheritance Cycle, I had to wait a lot for the fourth book and I was impatient. So I went ahead and read many fan-fictions and reviews about the series. That brought me into light about the harsh treatment meted out to the series. I had to questions the things that I took for granted (because I felt them to be right) against the questions asked about the series in the various anti-Eragon articles. It was (really) quite helpful for such an outlook brought the reasons for my feeling of rightness from the back of my mind to its fore. I made a summary of those reasons in the previous post.

Defending the Inheritance Cycle

Writing Fantasy Novels!! ........ A really intriguing and enticing prospect and a very good way to forget the problems that the real world presents us with. But when you want to do it commercially, then so much changes and you find yourself increasingly frustrated by the criticisms that you receive. It is true that you look forward to reviews so that you can improve yourself but when people point out something that you really enjoyed writing as a weak point in your script then you get annoyed. Readers don't really see what the writer would have gone through-and they are not obliged to-while writing the book. But there is one novel that I have seen to come under lots of negative feelings even though it isn't bad: The Inheritance Cycle.