Dragons: Dragon Eggs

Hello, Dragon-Lovers.

The second part of this "series" is dragon eggs. You might be wondering how versatile eggs can be. I mean, yes, they can be different colors and sizes, but that's pretty much it. Right?

Nope. Dragon eggs can be very different from each other. Like dragons themselves, different authors have a variety of different portrayals of dragon eggs.

What are some types of dragons eggs?

Would they be smooth, and stone-like, like this one? This is Christopher Paolini's description of dragon eggs in The Inheritance Cycle.

Are they leathery, and get harder the closer they are to hatching? One of the main ways to tell how close a dragon egg is to hatching on Pern (Anne McCaffrey) is by their hardness.

Are they plain white, like this one?

Are they textured with designs snaking all over them?

Do they have scales like the dragons themselves?

These dragon eggs my aunt made for me. She lined up 250 (each) thumb tacks in styrofoam strips and painted them with nail polish. Then, she started at the bottom of a styrofoam egg, and spiraled the thumb tacks all the way to the top. She is 100% amazing. :)

What are other types of dragon eggs?

Spruce Nogard

Genre of the Month: High Fantasy

Hello, Friends!

This month's genre is High fantasy. High fantasy takes place in a world completely unrelated to our own, with no access to our world. This is unlike portal fantasy in that portal fantasy contains portals to completely different worlds.

Some books I have read that are high fantasy are: Christopher Paolini's Inheritance Cycle, The Hobbit, and The Enchanted Forest Chronicles (which I post about here.)

Christopher Paolini's Alagaesia is full of elves, dwarves, dragons, humans, well known fantasy creatures, as well as creatures he made up, like urgals.

Middle-earth is J.R.R Tolkien's amazing fantasy world, while the world in which The Enchanted Forest Chronicles take place is never named.

To learn more about types of fantasy, read Erin's post about fantasy here.

What books have you read that are high fantasy?

Spruce Nogard

Attributions:

https://www.amazon.com/Hobbit-There-Back-Again/dp/061815082X

Dragons: The Enchanted Forest Chronicles

Good Day, Friends!

Today, we are going to talk about the view of dragons in The Enchanted Forest Chronicles. These books are: Dealing with Dragons, Searching for Dragons, Calling on Dragons, and Talking to Dragons. I recommend them, and, as with pretty much any book I mention, shall have to write a post about them sometime.

In The Enchanted Forest Chronicles, dragons are another race. They are equal to witches, wizards, humans, etc. They have their own government system, and are not tied to humans, like they are in the view of dragons taken in The Inheritance Cycle, by Christopher Paolini. (To read that post, click here.)

They are very smart. When they are young, they do not have a gender; they get to decide their gender when they get older (Females get three horns, males get two). Also, you must be very polite to dragons because, after all, they're dragons. Also, it's good to be polite to anyone. :)

Which view of dragons do you like better: The Inheritance Cycle's (Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance) or The Enchanted Forest Chronicles?

Comment Below!

Spruce Nogard

Attributions:

http://www.amazon.com/Enchanted-Forest-Chronicles-Dealing-Searching/dp/B001Y8AUMU

Dragons: The Inheritance Cycle

Greetings, Riders.

Today is a day of dragons! We are going to look at how dragons are portrayed in Christopher Paolini's Inheritance Cycle. If you are unfamiliar with the series name, the book names are: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, and Inheritance. The series follows a farm boy who finds a blue stone in the middle of the woods. The stone turns out to be a dragon egg, and Eragon, the boy becomes its Rider. The rest of the series follows Eragon as he has to fight a powerful and evil empire, and bring back Dragon Riders.

Someday, I may write a review on this series, but for now, I want to talk about the dragons.

In the Inheritance Cycle, dragons hatch for their Riders. This means that a dragon could stay in an egg for three hours or 2,000 years; they hatch for the person they want to become their Rider. Once the dragon hatches, the dragon and Rider are bonded forever. They "mindspeak" to each other, but the farther away they are from each other, the harder it is.

In these books, dragons are much wiser than people (or elves or dwarves) but are bound to people. Dragons possess a magic that is inconsistent but powerful. A dragon's name is extremely important to it.

This is our first look at one of many views on dragons.

Experience the joy of dragons, Dragon Riders.

Spruce Nogard

Attributions: https://www.amazon.com/Eragon-Inheritance-Cycle-Book-1-ebook/dp/B000FBJCK8?ie=UTF8&btkr=1&ref_=dp-kindle-redirect 

Sources: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/113436.Eragon