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From: Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England) | Date: December 18, 2006 | Copyright information

Intended as the first instalment of a trilogy based on the novels by Christopher Paolini, Eragon is an old-fashioned sword and sorcery epic that cowers in the shadow of Peter Jackson's Lord Of The Rings films.

Comparisons between the two series are inevitable.

Unfortunately, Stefen Fangmeier's modest effort looks cheap and cheerful in comparison, lacking the grandeur, spectacle and intense emotion that characterised the odyssey through Middle ...

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