The End of the Inheritance Cycle

Inheritance by Christopher Paolini

The End.   The end of a cycle, the end of the story of Eragon and Saphira.  As the story concludes the Varden are still battling their way across Alagaesia to overcome the evil usurper king Galbatorix. 

It is hard to give a synopsis of such an incredibly large book.  So much takes place not only in the last book of the Inheritance Cycle, but throughout the story the audience watches Eragon and Saphira mature and come to be a Dragon and Rider to be reckoned with.  This has been a wonderful journey to experience with all of the characters of Alagaesia.  This blog is primarily for readers that have finished the series and enjoyed it, so from now on, please do not read on unless you want to read spoilers.  Again, SPOILER ALERT.  I’m about to talk about the book and all the details that I want to talk about.

Of course if you read my blog on Brisingr you’ll remember how upset I was about Arya and Eragon not hooking up.  At the very end of Inheritance, I cried, I could not believe that Arya took up the post of Queen of the Elves, surely she understood that it would end the possibility of a future with Eragon.  Then Eragon realizes that he has to move out of Alagaesia forever therefore, nailing the last nail in the coffin of no love with Arya.  That was the saddest ending that I could have thought of. 

I loved this series, of course it was easy to see the common themes between Harry Potter, which I have talked about in previous blogs and even Frodo from the Lord of the Rings, especially with Eragon’s decision to leave with the elves.  In the Lord of the Rings, after Frodo rids the world of the evil of Sauron he decides that this world is not for him and he is invited to spend the rest of his long life with the Elves.  As with Eragon, he will go with the Elves and protect the unhatched dragon eggs along with the Eldunari of the older dragons.  As dragons hatch and riders are chosen by their dragons Eragon and Saphira have chosen to leave everything behind to train up the next generation of Riders.  It is a noble quest, but very sad.  The parallels between Harry Potter and Eragon are quite obvious to me, but just in case you missed it.  The epic battle is very much the same; a larger than life evil villain against a kid that has become something great from hard work determination, his attitude, personality and the overall good versus evil, good will always overcome.

Well I hope you enjoyed the book.  Have you read the Inheritance Cycle?  What did you think of the last installment?  In my opinion it was the best book of the series.  Thoughts?  Keep Reading my friends!