This is mainly for Josh, since he's basically the only other one who has read this book I believe...
Recently, I started reading the Inheritence Trilogy again. Besides the fact that it's a terrific story for any young reader or someone who has an insatiable taste for immature science fiction such as myself, I noticed something that has really bothered me since I read over it again, and had passed over before.
When Brom explains to eragon how the riders were chosen by the dragons, he says that there was a line of humans/elves, what have you, that lined up and touched the eggs and then the eggs would hatch for whomever was deemed worthy and they would immediately go into their training. Eragon, however had his egg for well over a week until Saphira hatched for him. So, was Brom's description an over-exaggeration, and really there were only a few chosen people who got to "baby sit" the egg until it may or may not have hatched for them, or did Saphira just crack open the egg because she was tired of being cramped?
Curious...
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Honestly, I'm willing to bet that this may be an answer for which the author may have no immediate answer. Any explanation you could make up may be as good (or identical) to an answer he'd make up.
I actually remember it a little differently. I thought Brom was talking about Saph's egg. The Varden and Elves would exchange it every few years and people would touch it to see if would hatch for them.
The elves had the advantage, and had people already being trained in case it hatched for them.
Also Saphira tells Eragon that she chose him, she was in the egg for like 100 years, basically waiting for Eragon. The dragon's must be able to make a connection with their rider from the egg, and that is why they hatch...
I don't know, I am just rambling now.
yes, this is true with saphira's egg. But, don't you think that in performing this ritual with one egg, it is simply the continuation of a former celebratory ritual when the dragons were more prominent in alagaesia?
I think i agree with greg though. It may be a tiny slip up where paolini would not be able to make up an excuse on the fly any better than any logical explanation we can come up with.
very true. he probably has no idea himself.
although, it seems to be a bit hereditary, know what i mean? maybe it's like baldness..skip's a generation.
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