Excerpt from The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm

[hwium8]

https://www.hypable.com/fork-witch-worm-excerpt-eragon/

I'm going to read it and put my thought about it in the comments.

Comments

[cavuy]

Not helping matters are lines like this: Among them lived groups of wandering tribes: strange, half-wild humans the likes of which Eragon had never encountered before. So far they had proven no trouble, but he remained wary.

Who are these tribes? Why are they strange? How are they half-wild? Shouldn't Eragon, with all his curiosity, have learnt a lot about them by this point? That should have been one of the first things they did when setting up their colony. Instead it sounds like Eragon views them as primitive curiosities far beneath him that he wants nothing to do with unless they get in his way.

[redwyvernheart]

So much for him being a peace keeper between races and cultures.

[epistler]

Also does this read as really really racist to anyone else? It can't just be me, can it?

[minionnumber2]

Not just you. It's extremely dehumanizing to consider a culture "half-wild".

[epistler]

Once again our dear sweet Ergy demonstrates how far above the lame old hoomins he is - he looks down on them like animals just as an elf would. At least we won't have to watch him "civilise" the poor ignorant savages, Robinson Crusoe style.

[cavuy]

Oh yes, very racist!