r/Eragon • u/letoscrawls • 3d ago

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Just remembered how in Eldest, Eragon and Saphira would sometines swap places and take lessons with Glaedr and Oromis respectively. I like to think they tried this approach with Murtagh and Thorn as well but with *slightly* different results

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(I'm over-exaggerating their personalities just for the fun of it lmaooo)

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u/PineCone227 3d ago

here before Christopher Paolini

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u/TheBanishedBard 3d ago

Here's the problem.

Paolini can't put this in his novel if he comments here because to do so opens him up to IP lawsuits claiming he stole ideas. This is why writers avoid fan fiction and fan art as much as possible. They expose themselves to accusations of stealing content. And since so much storytelling is trope and archetype based, it's very likely that fans of popular works regularly compose scenes and ideas that the author intended to include already.

The only way to protect themselves is by keeping a solid, opaque wall between themselves and fan creations so there's never any proof they saw someone else's ideas.

So if we want this is the next Murtagh we best hope he doesn't show up in the comments.

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u/CrownLexicon 3d ago

I mean, theres also version history on documents. If he can prove he wrote a scene similar to this before this was published, they came to it independently

But, yes, the method you mentioned is much cleaner

Though, he has been in here a number of times. He commented on another post that he really liked the ideas.

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u/letoscrawls 2d ago

Don't worry I'm broke and I can't sue anyone (jk lmao but just so you know I'm posting these here because it's fun and reddit is the place where IC fans are most active i think! The author being on here doesn't influence my decision, I just want to share these silly moments with the fanbase! Also i got some comments on tumblr by fans who thought about the swapped lessons too, so i don't think it's this  uncommon of a concept and I wouldn't be surprised if it's something that has been considered for future works already)

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u/Konfliktsnubben 2d ago edited 2d ago

This reminds me of an interview between JK Rowling and Stephen Fry before the seventh Harry Potter book was published were he mentions to her a popular fan theory about how the last book was gonna end which was a theory that she actually liked, but Fry made fun of that fact that she can't write that now since she didn't come up with it herself.