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Title: Rip-off or Homage?
Review: Mr Paolini's writing aside (it's serviceable, but unremarkable), I find it highly amusing that so many people accuse him or ripping off LOTR and Star Wars. LOTR owes much to Scandinavian Mythology (which Tolkien revered), and George Lucas took the plot for Star Wars directly from Akira Kurosawa's film "The Hidden Fortress". While there may not be much "original" in "Eragon" or "Eldest", Paolini's source material wasn't entirely original, either.
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