^&^&^ Le MoNdE d'ErAgOn ^&^&^

L'ainé, 2eme tome de la trilogie, qui tout comme le premier nous laisse impatient de l'arrivée du 3eme.
Plein de suspens avec 2 histoires en parallèles qui nous donnent toujours envie de continuer pour voir ce qui va arriver à l'un et à l'autre.

Eragon et sa dragonne, Saphira, sortent à peine de la victoire de Farthen Dûr contre les Urgals, qu'une nouvelle horde de monstres fait son apparition... Ajihad, le chef des Vardens, est tué. Nommée par le Conseil des anciens, sa fille, Nasuada, prend la tête des rebelles. Eragon et Saphira lui prêtent allégeance avant d'entreprendre un long et périlleux voyage vers le royaume des elfes, à Ellesméra. Là, il découvre avec stupeur qu'Arya est la fille de la reine Islanzadì. Cette dernière leur présente en secret un dragon d'or, Glaedr, chevauché par un Dragonnier, Oromis, qui n'est autre que le Sageen-Deuil, l'Estropié-qui-est-Tout, le personnage qui était apparu à Eragon lorsqu'il délirait, blessé par l'Ombre. Oromis va devenir son maître. Pendant ce temps, à Carvahall, Roran, son cousin, a engagé le combat contre les Ra'zacs. Ceux-ci, persuadés qu'il détient l'oeuf de dragon qu'Eragon avait trouvé sur la Crête, kidnappent sa fiancée. Prêt à tout pour la sauver, Roran comprend cependant qu'il n'est pas de taille à les affronter. Il convainc les villageois de traverser la Crête pour rejoindre les rebelles au Surda, en guerre contre le roi de l'Empire, le cruel Galbatorix.

Eragon:
Premier volume de la triologie

Eragon, quinze ans, vit en Alagaësia, un empire où règne le mal depuis longtemps. En poursuivant une biche dans la montagne, le jeune garçon découvre une pierre étrange, qui n'est autre qu'un oeuf de dragonne. En décidant d'élever l'adorable Saphira, Eragon déclenche la colère du roi Galbatorix. Ce dernier craint qu'une ancienne caste d'élite ne renaisse, celle des Dragonniers. La vie d'Eragon va alors basculer et il s'engage dans une quête qui le mènera aux confins d'Alagaësia : le destin de l'Empire est entre ses mains !

Un livre à lire sans attendre pour ceux qui ne l'ont pas encore fait !!!

Christopher Paolini est un grand passionné de Fantasy et de Science-fiction. C'est à la fin de ses études lycéenne et pourvue de son diplôme, il est alors âgé de 15 ans, qu'il écrit Eragon qui débute une trilogie dédiée à l'imaginaire fantaisiste qui ressemble fort au monde créé par J. R.R. Tolkien. Aujourd'hui, âgé de 19 ans, Christopher Paolini continue sur sa lancée en écrivant la suite du premier tome Eragon du nom de L'héritage.


Voila une petite bio en français et pour les courageux comprenant l'anglais en voila une plus complète et longue...
Elle me vient de ce site très bien fait:

CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI

Christopher Paolini was born on November 17, 1983 in Southern California. Aside from a few years in Anchorage, Alaska, he has lived in Paradise Valley, Montana with his parents and younger sister, Angela. They have two pets, Otis, a black and white cat, and Annie, a frisky cocker/Australian shepherd mix.

Tall, jagged Beartooth Mountains rise on one side of the Paradise Valley. Snowcapped most of the year, they inspired the fantastic scenery in Eragon. A few years ago, Christopher hiked to the top of Emigrant Peak and could see the Grand Teton mountain range, 100 miles to the south.

Christopher was homeschooled by his parents. He often wrote short stories and poems in attempt to put his thoughts into words. He made frequent trips to the library and read widely. Some of his favorite books were Bruce Colville's Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher, Frank Herbert's Dune, Raymond E. Feist's Magician, and Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials, as well as books by Anne McCaffrey, Jane Yolen, Brian Jacques, E.R. Eddison, David Eddings, and Ursula Le Guin.

Christopher grew up listening to a variety of music, but classical music fired his imagination and helped him write. He often listened to Mahler, Beethoven, and Wagner while writing Eragon. The final battle of Eragon was written while listening to Carmina Burana, by Carl Orff.

The story of Eragon began as the daydreams of a teen. Christopher's love for the magic of stories led him to craft a novel that he would enjoy reading. The project began as a hobby; he never intended to be published. He took a month to plot out the entire trilogy, then sat on the sofa and began writing in a notebook. When he reached sixty pages, he gained enough confidence to transfer the work to his computer, where most of Eragon was written, although he sometimes found that the story flowed better when he wrote by hand. All the characters in Eragon are from Christopher's imagination except Angela the herbalist, who is loosely based on his sister.

It took him a year to write the first draft of Eragon. He took a second year to revise the book and then gave it to his parents to read. The family decided to self-publish the book and so a third year was spent with another round of edits, designing a cover, typesetting the manuscript, and creating marketing materials. During this time Christopher drew the map for Eragon, as well as the dragon eye that appears inside the hardcover edition. Finally, the manuscript was sent to press, and the first books arrived.

The Paolini family spent the next year promoting the book themselves. Beginning with talks at the local library and high school, they then traveled across the U.S. Christopher gave over 135 presentations at libraries, bookstores, and schools in 2002 and early 2003. He did most of the events dressed in a medieval costume of red shirt, billowy black pants, lace-up boots, and a jaunty black cap.

In summer 2002, author Carl Hiaasen, whose stepson had bought and read a copy of the self-published book while on vacation in Montana, brought Eragon to the attention of his publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, who subsequently acquired the rights to publish Eragon and the rest of the Inheritance trilogy.

When the trilogy is completed, Christopher plans to take a long vacation, when he will ponder which of his many story ideas he will write next.

On writing

Writing is the heart and soul of my being. It is the means through which I bring my stories to life. There is nothing like putting words on a page and knowing that they will summon certain emotions and reactions from the reader.

Eragon is the first novel in the Inheritance trilogy. I started this book when I was fifteen, after several failed attempts composing other stories. It has been an incredible learning experience, and not only in writing. The greatest lesson it taught me was that clear writing is a direct result of clear thinking. Without one you cannot have the other.

Eragon is an archetypal hero story, filled with exciting action, dangerous villains, and fantastic locations. There are dragons and elves, sword fights and unexpected revelations, and of course, a beautiful maiden who's more than explore. You may take fancy to Tronjheim, the city-mountain the dwarves have built, or perhaps the mysterious forest Du Weldenvarden. Either way, there are more than enough marvels here for even the most accustomed reader of fantasy.

Eragon is the culmination of several years of intense labor. When I graduated from high school, I wanted to write a pure, dyed-in-the-wool hero story. So I immediately plotted out a trilogy based on my ideals of the archetypal maturation plot. In retrospect, it might not have been the wisest thing—undertaking such a huge project as my first book—but as they say, you can only learn through doing.

For me, the time I spend plotting out a novel is more important than the actual writing. If you don't have a good story, it's exceedingly unlikely that a good book can be pulled from the morass of ideas floating around in your brain. Typing out Eragon was a rather straightforward affair once I had the plot firmly in hand—though I did spend some time revising Eragon and Murtagh's flight to the Varden because of some fuzzy thinking before reaching that segment.

The real torture with Eragon came in the editing. I discovered that editing is really another word for someone ruthlessly tearing apart your work with a big smile, all the while telling you that it will make the book so much better. And it did, though it felt like splinters of hot bamboo being driven into my tender eyeballs.

I've always been fascinated with the sources of most modern fantasy that lie in Teutonic, Scandinavian, and Old Norse history. This is disregarding a large chunk of writing devoted to the myths from the British Isles. Because of this, I used Old Norse as the basis for my Elven language in Eragon, as well as many names. All the Dwarf and Urgal words, however, are of my own invention.

The character of Angela the herbalist has an interesting story. I never intended to have anyone like her in the book, but when Eragon and Brom got to Teirm, I decided to include a lampoon of my sister, who coincidentally is also named Angela. Fortunately for my bodily well being, she has an excellent sense of humor. When Eragon is exploring Teirm, I thought that it would be wonderful to have his fortune told by a witch in the marketplace. A better idea struck me, and I sent him straight into Angela's herb shop. She turned into such an interesting person, along with Solembum, that I decided to include her in the other two books of my trilogy.

I hope that Eragon will leave you with the same sense of wonder that I had while writing it. I do believe in magic—the magic of stories to give you wonder, awe, and revelations. Such feelings can come from small things; in a fey vision of fairy dust swirling in marble moonbeams, or at the end of an epic where a wave of emotion washes over you, sweeping away the mundane world for a moment. Either way, I hope that you find something special in Eragon, something from the other side of the looking glass.