Eragon

Mon, Jul 14, 2008

Eragon was released in 2006 but I still love to watch this movie. If you are like me in any way, the mystical and mythological portions of the movie is the attractiveness of the film itself. This is a very family friendly movie and if you have not yet seen this movie, I would recommend checking it out for family night. Also, there is a complete line of books for this movie.

The Kingdom of Alagaesia is being ruled by the evil King Galbatorix. He has a Shade that has mystical powers beyond belief and he tries to get the peasants under his heel in terror. Gailbatorix was once a great dragon rider himself until he betrayed his people and their kind for greed and power. He has a very powerful army and a very closely guarded castle.

Eragon, nothing more that a 17 year old farm boy living with his uncle and cousin is out on day and finds a shiny blue stone. So he thought that it was a stone until it hatches. He attempts to keep it hidden for some time until finally it gets bigger and he tries to teach it to fly.

Eragon and his dragon are attached telepathetichally but they still have to figure out how to coincide. This is when Eragon meets his mentor Brom. Brom is the one that will teach Eragon how to fight. The question is, what secrets does Brom have that he is hiding himself. And, they will not be alone in this fight as they set a course to join with the Varden that fight to remain free from the evil King.

I would like to think Google.com and picsearch.com for supplying all the pictures in this post. All of them are active and will take you to the website of the movie itself. If it were not for these 2 services, I would’ve had to draw stick figures on a napkin and scan them in. That would not have been pretty.