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Originally Posted by Yokuutsu
Dragons and lightsabers do not equal the same thing. They're too different to compare. Lightsabers, when damaged, can be repaired. A dragon? Not always. They can die along with the people that ride them. Magic does not equal the force since with the force you don't need to know a name to do things with it. You can just do it cause you have the force.
From what I've seen you can't compare Morzan to Anakin. (I might be getting people confused) Is it him or someone else who's dragon got killed/died and they stole? whatever? another? Because if it was him....you can't compare either. Anakin was an idiot who believed the Emperor Palpatine (I can't remember his Chancellor's name)when he should've realized that the path he was going down would cause the things in the dream considering the dream did not change at all as he went down the path. But he's a rash young adult and so didn't see it. Losing a dragon that has been connected to you for YEARS mentally....never been alone thanks to that...and suddenly it has gone all silent in your head? That could easily drive a man insane I believe. (Or was is Galbatorix that that happened to? I can't remember now...It has been so long .-.)
The way you're looking at it....everything is copying everything else. Nothing is going to completely original...unless you can come up with a new gender which still wouldn't be original since everything we come up with is somehow based on real life in one way or another. So, it's all been done before.
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You know that I was talking about the IDEAS?
The magic and dragon DOES equal the lightsaber and Force. It serves the same purposes in both stories, even if it WORKS different. =/
Morzan lost his dragon = Anakin went "insane" because he couldn't live with the thought of losing Padmé. The personality of both characters is different, but the STORY idea is the same.
No, of course there can be "original" stuff.
If he copied one thing from Star Wars, his story would be original.
But you see, for his first book he copied about EVERYTHING, changed some details about how things work and the setting and that's it.
And if you still don't see it: Christopher Paolini himself said that this is true and he took it from Star Wars. (;
So you can't really argue against it anyways, even if you don't (want to) see it.
This is not me trying to convince you - since it's a fact - I just wanted to let you know since you love Star Wars. XD
Edit:
You may find this interesting:
http://telpenori.blogspot.com/2007/0...iarism_28.html
Especially the part about magic copied from Earthsea, names copied from LotR (some even 100%) and storyline copied from Star Wars (granted, the author of the article is a bit more accurate than my comparisons were, so you have even more "proof").
Now go ahead and try telling me that Paolini did NOT copy. (: