![]() ![]() He read a huge amount of folklore while growing up, ranging from the Brothers Grimm to Beowulf, Nordic sagas, and the Aeneid, along with contemporary fantasy and science fiction. His work also combined elements gathered from research and from his imagination. In short, the books embody a great deal of his experience of living in Montana. To this end he forged his own knives and swords, made chain mail, spun wool, camped in the Beartooth Mountains, made his own bow, built survival shelters, learned to track game, fletched arrows, felled trees, hiked, and camped. He found that doing some of the same things as his characters allowed him to better understand their world, as well as to think of descriptions that otherwise would not have occured to him. Before he began writing Eragon, he plotted out the entire adventure. The project began as a hobby, a personal challenge he never intended it to be published. ![]() Christopher’s love for the magic of stories led him to craft a novel that he would enjoy reading. ![]() The idea of Eragon began as the daydreams of a teen. ![]() Feist’s Magician (now available in volumes one and two), as well as books by Anne McCaffrey, Jane Yolen, Brian Jacques, E.R. Some of his favorite books were Bruce Coville’s Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher, Frank Herbert’s Dune, and Raymond E. As a child, he often wrote short stories and poems, made frequent trips to the library, and read widely. (Para leer este artículo en español, haz click en el enlace al final de la página.)Ĭhristopher was homeschooled by his parents. ![]()
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