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In this blog I have just created I will post my comments about the military tactics and strategy in the Inheritance trilogy. I start not from a point of nit-picking the books to death. Although it is generally agreed that the books have very little originality this does not make them less enjoyable. They are well written, something that cannot be said about many stuff available in print nowadays. Let us not forget that the works of Homer are also considered to be of low originality, they were simply so well written that everything before them on the subject was forgotten. In this blog I will try to analyze the battles that take place in Eragon and Eldest using the same nitpicking reserved for real battles and those that describe them, for example the Battle of Marathon and Herodotus.

You might wonder who I am. As some might have guessed by now I am Greek. I am from Piraeus and currently study in Montpellier, France. I am by profession an agricultural engineer, with an interest in military history (and history in general). I am not so much a fantasy fan as much as a sci-fi fan, of the kind written by Jules Verne (that is the magic of new technology) rather than the social analysis kind so popular in Anglo-Saxon sci-fi. I came across Eragon last year in a local bookstore and decided to read since I had TOO much free time in my hand. I enjoyed so much (and its sequel) that I decided to add my own contributions to the books, such as they may be in this form. Next week I will begin with an analysis of the (second) Battle of the Burning Plains, the climatic end of Eldest. Be warned, this is a spoiler blog, if you have not read the books turn away now. Thanks