Mwahahaha.

[limepocky]

If you like Eragon, don't read this. Unless you want to read a critique of it.

I wouldn’t call this an essay, but I wouldn’t call it a rambling rant either. It’s long, but I’m pretty happy with it. The prologue was given an extra long analyzation, because it is so atrocious that it deserves one.

Comments

[estelendur]

The thin/strong sword: the concept is not quite as absurd as you think, but only if this sword were stabbing through armor instead of tearing it up, provided its point were tiny enough to concentrate the force enough to punch through sheet metal.

Actually, Ring has a teeny-tiny battle-axe that can rip up armor, because the tip concentrates the force amazingly well.

Although, even if this sword were punching through armor rather than tearing it up, it would still be unacceptable, because thrusting weapons didn't become popular until several hundred years after the time period all this is (loosely) based on. So that's okay.

Regarding Brom's horribly-bleeding cut: actually, if the cut was a head wound, it could bleed like mad despite being neither wide nor deep. But I assume that it wasn't? (Head wounds bleed a lot.)

If you want I can look at the swordfight scenes and tell you what's wrong with them.

[limepocky]

It was on his arm. I know head wounds bleed a LOT, and funnily enough, CP had nothing in there about the head wound being bloody. XD

[estelendur]

Oi. *facepalm*

[staccatou]

lololol. You should read Everything2's report, it's real braincandy. 83

http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1498696