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I am in the middle of reading Eldest at the moment and I recently heard that the last installment was to have a green cover with a green dragon facing the same direction that Saphira had on the cover of Eragon.

Bearing this in mind, I would like you to see 2 quotes from Eldest.

page 449, Eldest

He even stepped upon a sharp object that, when he bent to examine it, proved to be a fragment of a gree dragon egg

page 557, Eldest

As the sun began to it's descent, he noticed a cluster of mountains in the distant east and knew he beheld Du Fells Nangoroth, where the wild dragons had gone to mate, to raise their young, and eventually to die.

People say that they don't like the LotR similarity, but that's what I like about it. LotR was good, but I like Eragon and Eldest better. It's like LotR except without the boring bits.

(Sorry if you like LotR, but I frankly thought alot of it was boring)

As to green dragon egg- He wouldn't have written it in if it didn't mean something. He did it so it appears like something insignificant, just a passing glance at the ground, but it will come into play later. Otherwise, it serves no purpose and could be cut out to reduce the word count.

Hmm, that's interesting about the egg, blaugh but it could just be rumors. neutral
Does anyone know anything else about the 3rd book?

Well, I do still like LoTR, and that won't change. But, I liked Inheritance too, and I know that all things have to be mixed up a little bit here and there. Well, the green egg could be what that last dragon egg Galbatorix has is.

Now, I had a thought. In the first book, in Angela's fortelling, all I seem to remember her saying was that Eragon would have an epic romance, and she seemed to take it as a good thing. Now, was that all she said, that it would be epic? Because if so, it could be epic in a negative sense, as in unrequited love.

I've read the books a couple of times now, and must say, I enjoy them, and am waiting for book 3 (what's it's name anyways?)
if for no other reason then to finish the series.


but yes, i think he did a great job for his age, and personally just wished i didn't have to wait for authors to write their books.

P.s. some authors write really quickly, but the authors i read release like 1 book every 2 or 3 years... it gets pretty boring.

As my memory of both books is a little sketchy (I read them about a year or more ago), I can't really say anything specific. But from the general feel of the books, I really liked it. People too often portray dragons as either beasts with no minds, silly little wizards with tails and scales that breathe fire, or creatures limited to breathing fire, flying, and having a mental link with their riders. I thought that concept was very good, especially because he says that the dragons existed before they were bonded with elves and humans, which few other series that I know of ever did. I have never read LOTR, so I am unable comment on that, but I think that, considering his age, Paolini did a pretty good job on the trilogy (so far).

I've also heard that there is supposed to be a green dragon on the front of the third book, and I think it is reasonable. If you go through all the colors of the rainbow, blue, red, and, green are the best choices for dragons. After all, purple is weird, yellow and orange are too close to red (which was already done), pink is girly, black was already done for Galbatorix's dragon, white would be too much of a cliche(sp?) since the bad dragon is the opposite (black), brown is sort of dirty, and gray would seem unhealthy. Green is the only logical color left.