“Neither Orrin nor the elves can help us at this late hour. Even so, I sent runners to both of them with news of our plight.”
Those "runners" must be better than history's greatest marathon champions considering they'd have to run halfway across the damn country if not further to get to Surda or Elftown. What, they don't even get horses?
The Dwarves have mail shirts, small shields, swords, mattocks, and axes. Fairly standar-- wait, what? “mattocks”? MATTOCKS?
Looks like a ripoff of The Hobbit to me. When the dwarf army shows up toward the end of the book it's mentioned that "in battle they wielded heavy two-handed mattocks, and their faces were grim."
Garden tools are not military weapons
Neither are tiny blacksmith hammers with a reach so non-existent they'd be more useful for cracking nuts, and yet Roran exists. Somehow.
Eragon gets his own armour, of course, all in his size.
And despite never having been trained how to fight in armour. Or with a shield.
This is great, but then almost immediately forgotten, especially in later books when Eragon commits far worse actions and kills with far less pleasant methods.
Yeah, remember when he kills those guys in Dras-Leona by carving their guts out in slow motion graphic detail? It was so completely unnecessary and a horrible way to kill someone, but hell if he cares.
"I am not one of your helpless females to run away whenever there is danger."
"But I WILL be overpowered and captured at least once per book so you can heroically rescue me!"
"My breoal is dishonored and would be further shamed if I did not guard you and Saphira on this field"
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Date: 2020-07-07 09:50 am (UTC)Those "runners" must be better than history's greatest marathon champions considering they'd have to run halfway across the damn country if not further to get to Surda or Elftown. What, they don't even get horses?
Looks like a ripoff of The Hobbit to me. When the dwarf army shows up toward the end of the book it's mentioned that "in battle they wielded heavy two-handed mattocks, and their faces were grim."
Neither are tiny blacksmith hammers with a reach so non-existent they'd be more useful for cracking nuts, and yet Roran exists. Somehow.
And despite never having been trained how to fight in armour. Or with a shield.
Yeah, remember when he kills those guys in Dras-Leona by carving their guts out in slow motion graphic detail? It was so completely unnecessary and a horrible way to kill someone, but hell if he cares.
"But I WILL be overpowered and captured at least once per book so you can heroically rescue me!"
The fuck is a breoal?