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i'd have to say middle earth - because orcs are the original krull, the elves of middle earth are a far more sophisticated [and the original "pretty elf"] than aegalsia's elves....
and then there's the glaringly obvious.
say "aragorn"
now say "eragon"
now repeat that ten times fast.
what name are you saying now?
etc. everything from middle earth was inspiration for padolini's verse. and the original always wins when the remake is written by a nineteen-year-old, no matter how skilled at writing he is.
no matter how skilled at writing he is.
Skilled at writing? That was a joke, right? Paolini is awful. Really.
Alagaesia wins because it is Middle Earth^DBZ. That is, Tolkien's original work put into fanfiction and steroids and power-boosts. It is god-awful. I accept that. It doesn't change the fact that the characters and aspects of Inheritance are all reedonkulously powerful in a way that Tolkien explicitly didn't want.