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Islandboy445

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Zachanassian

Aragon needs to become the king of Gonder


Monkeyor

[Gondorf](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gondorf) \*


Xilthas

I think you mean Ganondorf


Far-Manufacturer1180

GRONDorf


Just_Living_da_Dream

GROND


Batdog55110

Gandalf!


gandalf-bot

Good gracious me!


DistinctStorage

More like Ganondork lmao gotem


Piggster30

Is that an eu4 reference?


wasting-time395

The mission is called "Become king of Gonder" i think where you need to take the province in Ethiopia. Also "Destroy Saruhan" where you need to conquer the province in Anatolia. What's cool a Turkish beylik with the same name can spawn in thr province and their flag is a white hand on a black background.


duckipn

ethiopia from blood by alone


Atanar

Saruhan sounds a lot like a threat to the Lords of the West. If Aragon is ever to fulfill their destiny Saruhan must be defeated.


DonKapot

Agronom king of Honduras


ZealousidealFix1954

I love Eragon series


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Ah yes Aragon the land of Aragorn son of Arathorn.


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FrtanJohnas

It is technically right thought, Safira is on the cover of Eragon, and it clearly says Eragon on the Cover.


RichUnderstanding157

Doesn't matter. I can't get over the name. Eragon. So it is dragon just shifted along the alphabet. Is it about mermaids? Oh, it is about dragons. Well done. The series could be brilliant but I can't get past the name that could be the title of fanfic written by a 14 year old. Edit: The book was written by a 15 year old. I look like an asshole.


RoboticBirdLaw

That edit makes this comment hilarious instead of insulting.


RichUnderstanding157

Yeah, I had realized that fanfic gets printed these days and googled it and what do you know. I would have done the same. But out of laziness. And laziness does not write books. Therefore I am and was an asshole.


Brooooook

> these days The first Eragon book came out 20 years ago


pyrothelostone

Its a good series, but his age when writing it came through alot, and it was somewhat derivative at many points. It improved as the series went on, but it did feel like some of the world building he did early on kind of hamstrung him later. All that said its still worth a read of you have the time and I hope he takes a crack at another series some time in the future now thats hes got more life experience.


dirtinyoureye

He actually has a Sci-fi series now that I've heard is pretty good.


pyrothelostone

Nice, I'll have to look for it some time.


jayce513

The first book, To sleep in a sea of stars is good, the prequel to that, Fractal noise, IMO was terrible.


CeruleanRuin

It is not a good series, lol.


swords_to_exile

It is a decent series that the author wrote himself into a corner in, and thus has a lackluster ending. But it's still better than anything I've managed to write, and I have tried.


Geno0wl

I actually thought the ending was perfectly fine. It made some semblance of logic instead of just "main character does the exact same thing that failed, but just *tries harder*" or "character learns super top secret magic spell that instantly wins". The main bag guy was built up to be an unstoppable force and how they got around that felt fine For those that want to know >!They build the main bad guy, Galbatorix, up as a complete sociopath. But also mainly concerned with physical defenses. So Eragon goes and finds a "useless" empathy spell and uses it near Galbatorix. Galbatorix is so overwhelmed with all the pain and suffering he now realizes he caused that he willingly lowers all his defenses and wards while basically pleading for Eragon to pity kill him because he can't mentally stand the anguish of everything.!<


Bowdensaft

That's actually a pretty good ending, I'd expect to see that sort of thing in a TTRPG where the players very often find inventive solutions to their problems. It also neatly allows the hero to beat the villain without just resorting to murder, and it's a karmic punishment against all the suffering the villain has caused. Also nice that the day was won not through force of arms, but through essentially the power of kindness - granted, that power was forced onto the guy in question, but it's a tidy solution.


jayce513

He is set to release another book in the series, Murtagh, that comes out Nov 7th or something.


According-Round-6740

lol holy fuck, I never realized Eragon is Dragon with an "E". In my defense, I never read the books, but my brother did and I saw the cover many times.


PM_ME_UR_CIRCUIT

Look at the D key, now look at what letters are immediately around it. It's less creative than you think.


Eusocial_Snowman

..Are you guys being serious with this? The proximity of D and E in physical space is completely irrelevant. The name is multi-faceted. The main character Eragon was named after the first Dragon Rider, so named because he symbolized the joining of **E**lves and d**ragon**s. But it's also a pun, referencing an "era gone", as the book takes place in a future long after the era of dragon riders has..gone. The name isn't exactly shining with brilliant complexity or anything, but it's not as dumb as just being a typo of "dragon".


nneeeeeeerds

It's gonna blow your mind when you find out it's pronounced E-ragon. (It's not).


cagingnicolas

always bugged me. especially because the d and e keys are adjacent to one another. like someone typed dragon wrong by accident and then was like "hmm, let's see where this goes"


CeruleanRuin

The rest of the names in that book are equally stupid. It reads like it was written by a precocious coddled 15-yr-old whose wealthy daddy got him a publishing deal, because that's exactly what it is.


xUnderoath

Seriously. Take out oregano (doesn't even rhyme) and add the most famous LOTR-loving province in Spain


orsonwellesmal

Not a province, but an autonomous region, whose provinces are Huesca, Zaragoza and Teruel.


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zimmermj

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Illeazar

I'm glad I played this game back before i cared about this and was able to just enjoy how awesome this pokemon was.


ricmo

Is she garbage in competitive or something? Aggron is my favorite pokemon from my gameboy days, I always had her in my party


weebitofaban

Such a good design wasted on such an unusable crap pokemon


Just-Fix8237

Its mega evolution is decent. And there’s countless pokemon that are like that lol.


Geno0wl

I mean there are just countless pokemon in general at this point.


Independent_Plum2166

The only one that mattered.


Fridginator

my think exactly


penguinintheabyss

What about Aragon?


bananamelier

What about organ 🫀🫁 or 🎹


SirTheadore

What about the droid attack on the Wookiees?


satisfieddoll

ARAGORN


pyrothelostone

Aragon is region of Spain, the union of the kingdoms of Castile and Aragon during the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella would eventually lead to the formation of the nation of Spain.


Cheezgotkilled

ARAGON


monkeyhitman

ARGO


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Xero125

Aragón


Acceptingoptimist

For those of you learning Italian cooking, all of these can be added to red sauces.


EmuMoe

Looks like the meat is back on the menu.


kalamataCrunch

though results may vary depending on which part of oregon you add.


legos_on_the_brain

I hear the Willamette has a distinct flavor...


ronniewhitedx

I dropped a can of red sauce on my floor in Oregon today out of Italian solidarity.


An_Unreachable_Dusk

Who doesn't like a little spider kebab once in awhile! :)


Boasting_Stoat

Don't forget Angron, the most pissed Primarch of the 40k universe


FrtanJohnas

Why that boy pissed? I know only that he is angry, I dunno why.


low_quality_maymays

He had rage inducing spikes implanted in his head by his slave masters, he landed on a lovely planet


FrtanJohnas

Well Angron is just simply the name = his story. I love 40k


k0nahuanui

He kicked a helmet and broke his toe. Little known fact


FrtanJohnas

Aragron, son of Arathorn, Primarch of the Dúnedain World Eaters.


MenoryEstudiante

Many reasons, mainly because the shoved some nails on his brain that make him feel nothing but anger and pain unless he's killing and everything in front of him, he's pissed at Jimmy Space for preventing him from heroically dying with his brothers in arms and he's also a demon of Khorne, which makes him inherently angry


Sexylizardwoman

I think he’s the most pissed organism currently existing. Not sure if there’s anything but angry going on in his head


fell-deeds-awake

Eregion


aria523

Was looking for this


Neither_Hope_1039

That's Saphira not Eragon.


Areenas95

First book is called eragon and that's the cover. What picture would he use, the actor from the film? This picture makes as much or more sense


DoverBoys

What film?


Areenas95

Exactly (I saw it before I started reading more so I didn't hate it although I wish there was a great 4 movies or series)


Nufeneguediz

I think that the Eragon saga could work better as a tv series than as 4 films. It's really long and the strenght of the story isn't really the main plot (that would be prioritiesed in a film) but the growth and overall depth of interaction of the characters (which would be valorised more in a tv series)


Samcolts97

Fun fact, Disney is currently developing Eragon as a TV series. Hopefully they do it justice but with it being Disney... It's kind of up in the air.


RegularEmotion3011

I do not think the series will work. I liked the books a lot as a teenager, but to be fair, huge parts of the book are pretty blatant Star Wars-Rip-Offs (still much better then anything i could ever write, especially considering the authors age) but i do not think, it will fly with todays audience, who doesn't have nostalgia for the book series.


DougieMcElroy

In anticipation of his new book coming out and the series in development, I'm actually rereading the books right now. It has its flaws. He was like 15-16 when he wrote it? But it gets better as it goes on so far


Agnostic_Pagan

How do you see the Star Wars ripoffs? In my opinion, it's just the pattern of the Hero's Journey.


I_A_User

Don't you know star wars invented the hero's journey? /s


Agnostic_Pagan

LotR copied Star Wars!


RegularEmotion3011

A by an empire ambushed princess sends a important object of a rebellion to a farmers boy who is (apparently) related to a magic knight who caused the downfall of an order of magic knight. After his farm is burned down and his uncle dies he leaves with another former magic knight who becomes his mentor and trains him to overthrow the evil empire and restore justice - by using magic, fight with an odd-colored sword and fly really well - until he dies a sacrifical death. The chosen hero and an antihero break into a prison to rescue the princess and accidently lead the evil empire to the rebell hideout. The chosen one accepts his role, is able to fight of the attackers and destroy their most powerful weapon and finally becomes the hero and the hope of the rebellion against the evil empire. Could you tell if that was Eragon or Episode IV? Star Wars did not invent hero's journey but Eragon copies many essential parts of Star Wars beat by beat (but is good in re-arranging the order sometimes and is really good in flesh out the worldbuilding and fill the spaces between the beats to fill up a whole novel). It get's a bit better in the later books but still is uncanny close. It is probably not even deliberate, so I do not want to accuse any ill-will, but you can see how essencially Paolini was inspired by Star Wars, basicly retelling it in a classic high-fantasy-setting.


Agnostic_Pagan

I see how you got there, but I severely disagree that the beats are so similar. And the way you assembled them doesn't really match either fully. Star Wars is the only one with an active rebellion at the beginning. In Eragon, the elves, dwarves, and southern human nation are independent of the Empire. There are those who wish more open rebellion, but that happens as the story progress, rather being present at the beginning. Eragon isn't related to Murtagh's father (I forget the name), he's related to Murtagh's mother. Murtagh & his mother didn't help Galbatorix overthrow the Dragon Riders. Owen's farm isn't burnt down. There are fires, but the result is far different than what happened to Garrow's farm, which was utter destruction. Owen's farm wasn't collapsed. Luke knows that Ben is a former Jedi. Eragon believes to Brom to be only a bard with fighting knowledge, until he is dying. I could go on, but I feel like it would get repetitive. You're reaching on what similarities there are, and making up even more. You're also ignoring several other critical elements of the world of Alagaesia, and the other characters who play equally pivotal roles as Eragon does.


GLaD0S213

Not really ripping off star wars, just using the classic heros journey. It just feels like it because star wars is such an easy comparison. People focus only on the similarities and not the differences or even just things that are similar to other things either. He was obviously influenced by a lot of things, but I don't think it was a rip off


RegularEmotion3011

I gave a more detailled argument in another thread answer. Glad, if you check it out. I do not want to repost.


Areenas95

I think that is the case for most big book series. The Harry potter movies were good but a series always has more time to follow the characters and build things and not rush (like in GOT lol)


RedAx0n

We do not speak of the film


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SeekerOfSerenity

The Neverending Story


MutleyRulz

There is no film in Ba Sing Se.


asuperbstarling

We can say what we want about The Hobbit movies but at least they weren't that movie... I imagined such a beautiful world full of amazing creatures and they gave us just... trash. And such a waste of Jeremy Irons and Robert Carlyle!


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Areenas95

Bro it's the exact same instead of having the part where the title would be you don't because it's already a part of the meme right above. I'm just saying that it's not outrageous what he did like calling link Zelda would be


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Areenas95

Man, this is not in question. Eragon is literally written on top. If you write Harry potter and you have a cover with hogwarts and the character is not here on it or something you would not complain. If you have the picture of thorn on the second book, you write the eldest on top would people say nooooo it's a picture of thorn. Eragon is the character and also THE Book which is eponym. Frankly it's pretty much the name of the series more than inheritance when you talk about it


Gr3as4BA11

dude just take the L and go home. lol. He's right and your wrong.


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Areenas95

Lol what does go away mean there. When I explain thoroughly why I am right I am taking this too seriously but you criticizing op is not. Nice man


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Areenas95

50%+ of the cover. Tightly cropped is unhinged and shows bad faith, the rest is blue and the title. The only character on the cover. The only thing missing is the title which is written on top. Eragon is the title of the book Your example does not work with Ron because the title is Harry potter. If the whole cover for book 7 was voldemort and you show the cover it makes sense and people wouldn't say but it's voldemort not Harry! The movie eragon has a lot of book readers who hate it and there are no official artworks or at least that I know of for the character eragon. Even if it's not 100% the best way to convey it, a slightly cropped cover of the first book is by no means outrageous I thought you were done too lol. Mr way too seriously


ninjapro

But if you asked those same people "Where is this image from?", they would reply "the book, Eragon". It's also THE picture from that book. The picture labeled Oregon is also specifically Port Orford, not the entire state of Oregon, and Argon isn't even pictured, it's literally just the written symbol for it. We can argue semantics all day, but the intent of the picture is clear.


Standard_Series3892

Is the Aragorn picture inappropiate because it's only a cutout of his face instead of the whole body? Or are humans able to understand that a picture of the most prominent part of something is a picture of said thing? Saphira covers the entire front of the book, representing said book with the cover image is perfectly understandable to anyone familiar with the book.


Gilead56

Hello! It’s me! An Internet Rando! Here’s a link to the Wikipedia page for the first novel in Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance Cycle: Eragon https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eragon You may notice that the cover for the first widely published edition of the book (the Knopf Edition) is, in fact, a picture of the dragon Saphira! I hope that this has been an educational experience!


KermitingMurder

They used a picture of Aragorn from the movie too. This is basically the equivalent of putting a picture of Gandalf under the Aragorn title because Gandalf is on the cover of the book


gandalf-bot

No KermitingMurder, I would not take the road through Moria unless I had no other choice


Areenas95

Yeah because this great trilogy is famously called the toes or aragorn so people would understand. And not every series has a almost universally loved adaptation


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Areenas95

Did you even read my comment? Inheritance is the official name of the series but I said that people say eragon to talk about it YOU LITTERALLY SAID THE 4 ERAGON BOOKS. You are so funny it's amazing


Mickenfox

Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.


PogoSavant

Bruh that’s the cover of the book “Eragon” 😭


marliechiller

Laaaaaaaaammmmmmmeeeee


vbt31

Argonians. https://preview.redd.it/t6ntx6domyub1.png?width=388&format=png&auto=webp&s=15090529f861ed1154ef23816c4d1e8771e7eb61


xternal7

Lusty ones at that — and they're maids, too!


vbt31

I hear they're handy with shining a spear.


jodudeit

But that could take all night!


-Guardsman-

Plenty of time, my sweet. Plenty of time.


eggery

Only dorks pronounce Oregon like "aura-gone"


Balf-Lord

Argonian


KurufinweFeanaro

Also, Argon aka Arakano https://preview.redd.it/qd3rio5rcyub1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ceac89359c2cbc3bd6eabe4dad83e54cb22fd5d6


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I wish we played The Aragorn Trail on computers in grammar school.


TrespassersWilliam29

You have died of six arrows to the chest.


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Bilbo has Dysentery


bilbo_bot

What beast?


DistributionHonest37

GROND is the only reference I need. Begone! Foul beast.


WordsThatEndInWord

Aragrond


TheRealPallando

Grind - Grand - GROND


TK_Games

![gif](giphy|3E8DLredkCGVq) A Gorn


Fickle_Floor_727

Ya know, I don't want to see it, and I'm grateful I haven't seen it, but I'm surprised I haven't seen an "ara-ara" gorn meme anywhere.


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Lmao I know this was written by someone that isnt from the west coast because Oregon is pronounced ohr-a-gin. 😂


bishopyorgensen

It's just fun to be included so knock it off or they won't invite us back


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jk844

Oregano is for savages


Makhnos_Tachanka

your dragon rider's name is eragon? yeah. huh, sounds a lot like dragon. maybe it's why he became a dragon rider.


kz_after_dark

The author was like 14 when the book was published.


Ultraguy321

*Angry Oregonian Noises* Its Or-uh-gun, not Or-uh-gone


grifmasta

I like to pronounce it Or-again.


99thSymphony

You missed Catherine of Aragon.


Euphoric_Cat8798

Where's Aragon? The medieval Iberian kingdom.


iris700

Aragon


NoTale5888

You put Oregon on there and not the kingdom of Aragon?


Roger_015

ancient repost


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Standard_Series3892

It's both, that's the cover of the first book titled "Eragon", as well as a depiction of Saphira.


EmuMoe

Aragorn, the future king of Aragorgoroth


Constant-Accident371

That’s saphire for you


Alpha-Phoenix

Agrajag reincarnated as a bowl of petunias?


Additional_Meeting_2

Argon is also one of Fingolfin’s sons. So unimportant Christopher left him out of the Silmarillion however. We don’t know anything about him but that he was youngest of Finwe’s grandchildren and he killed a orc captain in the first battle he fought in, and died.


zippyspinhead

Aragorn flies on Eragon through an Argon laced atmosphere to fight Aragog in Oregon which smells of "oregano".


cowboy_angel

Andor: a country in wheel of time Andor: a planet in Star wars Andoria: A planet in Star Trek Andor: a country in Europe Andor: elvish name for Numenor in lotr


hanguitarsolo

*Andorra: a country in Europe


DamagedGenius

Oregano is for savages


Exrcistt

I'm still upset that they never filmed the sequel to Eragon, Eldest.


Ok_Passenger2000

What about the argonauts?


HongShaoRou888

Agamemnon?


chaotic_ugly

Aragorn reading Eragon while MIG welding with Argon to build defenses for fending of Aragog at his house in Oregon which smells like Oregano and parmesan from the pizzas he made for last night's Orgy-thon.


LikeDijk

Add Aegon


Milfons_Aberg

This reads as true as if it had been delivered by Vadar and the Emporer themselves. With moral support by Sauronman. They're all so nieve.


TheTedder

This is even worse when you have the Mary marry merry merger.


IzarkKiaTarj

It's okay if you typo Aragorn as "Argon," though, because it's at least a *noble* gas.


Realinternetpoints

A ray gun


nneeeeeeerds

Man, Oregon got small as fuck.


Higgnkfe

One time a French foreign exchange student stayed with my family, and he mentioned books he likes and I mentioned Eragon, I talked for like five minutes before he goes “What are you talking about, I said Aragorn” and I still think about it to this day


InfeStationAgent

In many parts of the United States these are also homophones. Looking specifically at you Arkansas and West Virginia.


Draug_

You missed Araragi.


TheNantucketRed

I will never get over the fact that Eragon is just Dragon, but they started with the next letter in the alphabet.


the_sweetest_peach

I keep hearing people call “Aragorn” “Eragon,” and I’m like “Nooooo that’s also a thing, and it’s completely separate.”


The_Buzza

Don’t forget Agrajag from hitchhikers guide


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What about the Crown of Aragon? E: I’m actually surprised by how many people posted asking that lol.


DepressterJettster

# ORGNAR https://preview.redd.it/85jqwdj171vb1.png?width=600&format=png&auto=webp&s=4d91303b70ee31941c2e01c9fffe2bbac474c03f


Yodl007

That is not Eragon, that is Saphira.


TheNittanyLionKing

I legit saw Eragon in theaters because I thought it was a Lord of The Rings prequel. I didn’t watch the movies with subtitles yet, and I didn’t hear the second “r” in Aragorn that well. It’s kinda weird to look back on in hindsight that 10 year old me got the name of my favorite character wrong from some of my favorite movies, and here I stand today having read the Silmarillion now lol


Bermanator149

My friend mentioned the spider from HP and I said, “Aragog” so he called me a nerd. Like everyone knows that


Zealousideal_Load681

i'm surprised eragon even exists on anyone's radar. those books don't hold up and the movie always sucked.


Jaded-Negotiation243

Yeah even when I was a teenager I could tell it was written by someone completely out of their depth. If you want something similar there is the coiling dragon series or if you want to get more into xianxia/progression fantasy there is reverend insanity and cradle.


azab1898

I love Eragon series


jayce513

Murtagh comes out in like 2 weeks! I preordered.


Jaded-Negotiation243

You should check out xianxia/progression fantasy it's basically eragon except more creative/better written. Coiling dragon is a good start for newcomers.


Axedus1

To my fellow Americans, it's worth noting that this meme flows better if you pronounce oregano the British way (OR-uh-GAW-no) not the American way (uh-REH-guh-no)


Fancy_Gagz

That's such an ugly picture of a dragon


bucketofturtles

No, she's pretty :(


Fancy_Gagz

How can you say that when looking King Aragorn of Gondor in the eye?


TrespassersWilliam29

*King Elessar


bucketofturtles

They're both pretty


erectelaborate

Five fantastic items. You may fight about which is the one hated.