Christopher Paolini’s Fanmail
Under the subject of “a curious imagination, but expansive!!” I received the following fanmail for Christopher Paolini, the child author of fantasy novels Eragon and Eldest.
Dear Mr. Paolini,
(if that’s ok, because to some it bothers them so i don’t know). As your usual fan mail starts: Your and amazing writer your imagination is expansive (farther than Russia to Puerto Rico) it’s extremely impressive how ever you write it down. Anyway to the point, I haven’t visited the states but in a few months I’m moving to AZ from P. R. I’m not trying seduce or anything but how do you learn more about the ancient creatures because you describe them as if you were literally on the landscapes of Oromis and Gleadr’s home and the training’s with Eragon and Saphira but yet you can’t compare it to anything so I don’t know how it looks like. To be honest reading your books are the only antidote to the situations that I’m in my life now. To seduce, I meant was to ask you where you get your inspiration from I know what you’ve said was your home in Montana but that’s your own imagination, places you’ve seen, etc… although i would desperately would like to know I won’t ask, plus that really personal so I will not ask. I would like to ask you that when you read this mail I’ve sent you please don’t post on any web or anything dealing within the computer (or outside)
sincerely, Grace from P. R
p.s.if ur a person who writes tragically i would encounter you to know that im of an age u’ll never guess
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on April 25th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
I would like to know your email
on June 14th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
Wait, you send letters back and forth to Chris? Aw, you have to let me know his address! Not so I can raid him or anything, but I have written a novel (urban fantasy) and I’ve sent a query letter out already, so I’m still waiting. I’m only fourteen, so I’d love his advice and yours too! Just in case it don’t show, my email is roses_of_the_blood@yahoo.com.
on June 15th, 2007 at 1:24 am
I NEED TO KNO HIS EMAIL! PLZ!
on June 23rd, 2007 at 7:29 pm
Dear Christopher Paolini. i have read half you book and I IS EXTREMLY BAD i dont know maybe it gets better but it SUCK SO PLEASE DONT MAKE ANY MORE BOOKs
on July 12th, 2007 at 6:06 am
DONT LISTEN TO THE ABOVE STATEMENT
on September 4th, 2007 at 5:58 pm
I think I speak for a lot of people when i say: hurry it up on the 3rd book
d@m^ it. some times in late or mid 2007 would be ideal Im starting to think your slacking off. I really don’t want to wate until mid 08 for a book.
Harry potter 7 already took care of that need. The amount of time your taking it better be the best published work you have ever written.
Thanks for listening.
your eternal fan,
Joseph A Fowler
on November 1st, 2007 at 8:12 pm
Hi people
looking for Mr Chris Paolinis email address so students can contact the writer about his story Eldest. Thanks John
on November 21st, 2007 at 9:09 pm
um…i think Mr. Paolini can take all the
time in the world 2 write his 3rd book…he needs
time 2 get everything rite u know…well juzz wanted
2 make a comment on that…& then i juzz luv
his books i seriously cant wait till the 3rd book….:)
on November 28th, 2007 at 10:03 pm
YES, please hurry up and finish the 3rd book. i just finished the 2nd and already read the 1st. without your books to read i am bored and your books are really good. i do speak for all of your fans when i say hurry up. you’ve had plenty of time to write it and it comes out September 23, 2008! i think if u wrote faster u could finish by mid April if not early May. PLEASE hurry up with writing the 3rd book!!!
on December 6th, 2007 at 9:54 pm
Well, I’m beginning to think that the people of america’s online population are becoming more and more illiterate. It’s almost insulting, especially to a freshman like myself. Either way, everyone, I think the reason no one has Christopher’s email address is because he doesn’t want a constant flow of emails with remarkably unintelligent Subjects and squealing fan girls… The poor man has enough to do without having to worry about checking his emails constantly, don’t you think?
Patience is a key to good writing and building up anticipation for an upcoming event, you should try it sometime.
My. Paolini, I would also like to make a brief address to you, It was a pleasure to read your work and I am looking forward to the completion of your trilogy. Work well and keep safe.
Good night!
on December 16th, 2007 at 4:19 pm
HI Christopher Paolini I am your graetest fan ever I am ten years old and have read all the books that have come out in the inheritance seires ERAGON and ELDEST are great books I cannot wait for books 3 and 4 . Best of luck on them.
on December 28th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
hey i would really like to know Chris’s email.
he’s the best.
i started his book in the 4th gr. and ever since i’ve read tons of books.
his is what got me started and i think his are the best outa wat i’ve read.
take ur time on it as long as that means it will be better!!!
signed,
sverdar brsingr (code name)
on January 8th, 2008 at 9:23 am
I would like to know when you will complete it. I think for you to fit everything in, it would need to be twice as long as the second. I also write books, but I have
on January 10th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
I dont think that the description of the Raz’ack in the book fit the Raz’ak in the Eragon moive. Chris describes them as black skin, a beak like nose, and strong, and in the movie theyre relativly short, have bugs crawling over them, and have no beak like nose…reply plz
on January 26th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
i personally think that the eragon movie was horrible compared to the book.
just a thought.
thanx.
sverdar brsingr
on February 7th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
Stop pestering the man! You can’t just tell someone to “hurry up” with a book, it really takes a long time to perfect; don’t you know that? Take as long as you want with the rest of the books, Mr. Paolini…just don’t rush them, like JK Rowling did with her last book! Wow, that was really bad…
Gosh…anyways, I didn’t think the movie was NEARLY as good as the book. Too rushed…Murtagh’s “betrayal” wasn’t nearly potent enough. If I were you, I’d check out the history of the director BEFORE I let someone get their hands on my novel.
I, of course, would like to know your email so I can ask you some questions concerning how you dealt with writing books. Did you go to college? That seems kind of hard to me, writing a series and dealing with college at the same time. I myself am a sophomore and nearly completed with the first draft of my first novel, though I may have to cut it short and add more books to the series…too many pages! But if you do not want your email out to the public, I understand that; there’s the privacy issue, and all.
-Marianne
on February 8th, 2008 at 5:43 am
There is a different reason I wish to know his e-mail. So that I may ask him for advice. He was young when he wrote his first book, Eragon, and now I, also still in my teens, wish to pursue a career in the art of book-writing. Now, I don’t know if Christopher Paolini personally checks this website every once in a while, but if he does, please email me at deartsangurl@yahoo.com.
Thank You,
Kimiko
on February 9th, 2008 at 1:38 am
i have something else…
again….
my sister like the 2 above is writing a book (series)
shes just like writing notes. she already has lots but still has a long way to go.
so if you have anything to say or advice for her please answer back. thanx
on March 6th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
Your books rocks, Durza is the hottest guy ever. Enclude more shades in your story please. There awsome also because I’m one of them.
on March 15th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
Dear, Mr Paolini
I just wanted to know whether or not the second in the series Eldest was going to be made into a movie because i would love it to made into a movie beacuse the first movie just was amazing. Reading the second book indicates to me that the second book will be just as good if not better.
From
Nikhil
on March 18th, 2008 at 3:24 am
Dear Chris,
I had a feeling of becoming a good fantasy writer someday like Tolkien, Lewis, Rowling, Brown and YOU.. I’ll be glad if you will be my personal critic. I love your works though I noticed few mistakes but it’s okay. That cannot be avoided, really.
From
Archie
on March 21st, 2008 at 10:37 pm
hey if anyone nows chrises e-mail can they please e-mail it to me on d_d121@hotmail.com. i think his book is mint as and i want to try to write my own book one day. oh and no one listen to the 3rd comment above me because durza does not rock for gods sakes he helped capture saphiras egg and im glad eragon owned him
on May 13th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
Hello Chris, i love your books, i read the comment that said that your books were “extremely bad” i think that person was just jelouis. SOOOOO i just wanted to say that I really enjoyed reading eragon and eldest and can’t wait for your new book to come out. I really do hope that they can come back with a great movie after the first movie which wasn’t very good compared to your books. I started reading eragon and eldest when i was 12 years old and have read it 10 times since beginning of 2007. I hope that even after eragon the movie the movie people can come back and make a great movie like it should be. O yeah and in the first movie how did eragon all of a sudden know some many words in the acient language?
on May 16th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
u know what, the movie sucked crap. for sure. i didnt watch it but i dont want to…. o but i still ur books…..u know what i wud hate if were famous? if some people just talked about how they are like you, or how they wud want ur advice, or how they wud like to contact u, or especcially how they love ur book. like i did….and all the other people….NOTE TO THE PEOPLE WHO ARE COMMENTING: SERIOUSLY, LEAVE A NOTE ONLY TO CRITICIZE, NOT TO SAY HOW LOVE THIS BOOK OR ANOTHER.
on May 16th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
Dear Christopher Paolini,
I love your books. They are so awsome. Don’t listen to some other people. Take all the time you need to complete your trilogy, but still, I cannot wait until the third book, Empire, is out. I really need a good book to read. I think my reading teacher is kind of annoyed at me. I’m giving her a lot of letters to write back for reading workshop. I think i’m a nerd. Again, I can’t wait for the next book to be done and I would be so psyched if you were doing book signing near where I live when the trilogy is completed(not happaning).Until then, Mor’rant lifa unin hjarta onr
Thank you for reading,(if i’m not so boring that you finnish it)
Mikey
on May 31st, 2008 at 6:24 pm
dear christopher paolini,
your books are truely phenamonal (i spelled that wrong), anyway i loved the book Eragon, and loved Eldest just as much. i’m in the seventh grade, and i have always loved to read, especially fantasy. my fav. series is ultimately harry potter, but this series is following closely. i just submitted my comments, but, i forgot sumthing in the Leave a Reply section, so it erased the whole thing. i just want to say that it was my pleasure reading your stupendous series and i look forward very much to reading your next two books, hoping they are even better than the last two. Murtagh’s and the Twin’s betrayals shook me greatly for murtagh was just starting to gain my trust as well. the languages used in these books, tie them together wonderfully, and the romance adds even another twist to the series. I felt like i was in the story, fighting alongside Eragon and Saphira, and sailing among the deep waters with the villagers and Roran. i’ve always been able to connect with characters very well, but with your stories i can relate much better than most. i hope you have the best of luck writing your books, and i hope not to rush you though i would love to read your books as soon as possible.
i enjoy your books and hope your new ones are even better than the first. for you finished Eragon at fifteen, publishing somewhat soon after. you have proved to be an inspirational influence for those wishing to create there own books, such as me, and many others. for as soon as i get an idea for a book, i read another book and get another idea, taking away the last. let the books you next do inspire young writers to be greater writers in the future so that no one become bored with the present ideas of the old writers, for their not as new and fresh(i hope i’m not speaking too harshly, sumtimes, they write even better than their last, but not always).
best of luck,
becky
Atra esterni ono thelduin, Un du evarinya ono varda, good luck, and have fun writing your new books. i can’t wait to read them.
on June 2nd, 2008 at 2:17 pm
GO HOMESCHOOLING!!!!!!!!!!!!
i like your books keep on writing
on July 1st, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Dear Christopher Paolini,
I believe that some of us would like it if you made a complete dictionary of the ancient language. Also, this may sound ridiculous, but is Angela the god eragon meets in book three?
on July 2nd, 2008 at 6:04 pm
Dear fellow visitors,
Like the other Chistopher Paolini discussions created by Elliottback, this is not a site created by Christopher Paolini and somehow I doubt that he has even been here (though his sister, Angela, has!!)
I hate to burst your bubble and dash your hopes, but it is also very unlikely that you will ever get to know his email address: the last thing he probably wants is fanmail!
Yes, I agree. The ERAGON movie was horrible compared to the book. But many readers have been led to the book through the movie; that’s probably the movie’s one success: an excellent way of advertising.
Here is some advice on writing books getting a book published: (please note that the word ‘advice’ does not mean that I am telling you what to do, or that I am even presuming to be correct. I’m just trying to help)
1. Detail is a major part of any book. An ‘okay’ writer writes with only two or three senses. A genius writes with all five.
2. A large vocabulary is required, of course, to elegantly and properly express your thoughts.
3. Remember: What makes the book appealing to readers is when the characters become real to them. Characters are not just a name on a page. They have to be actual people with individual personalities. Characters are complex.
4. Your plot has to be thought out and everything that happens has to be realistic and logical. Arya didn’t just happen to send a dragon egg to Carvahall and Eragon did not happen to find it. There was a reason for it. Too many coincidenses in a book are unrealistic and make the readers say, “Yeah right! This is sooo cheesy!” You don’t want that, trust me.
5. No big company is going to publish your book if you do not have an agent.
6. No large bookstore is going to agree to buy your books if you do not have a distributor and they cannot be assured that it will be possible to return the books if they don’t sell.
I suggest self-publishing, though it takes more work and quite a bit of money.
Want to know more about publishing?
www.freewebs.com/whiteivy
Hope this helps!
~Sydney
on July 18th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
Dear Christopher,
My sister and I consider you to be an excellent author, and are looking forward to Brisingr!
My friend’s grandmother knew Bill Hooks, a friend of Jane Yolen, and my aunt says you visited the school she works at in Naperville, Illinois.
I am thirteen, and I have been writing my book since I was ten. I plan on writing many books on the subjects of dragons, pirates, vampires, aliens, racism, history and the challenges of adolescent life.
I try to be as creative as I can with my writing, and I am loosely basing (but not copying) my book on the Inheritance cycle so I can get a feel for how great literature is written.
Also, I experience writer’s block every now and then. Have any tips?
My best regards,
Danny
on August 10th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
Chris, If you are reading this - If it is Angela reading please tell him - then I’d like to let you know that you’ve inspired me to create my own book which is in progress, “Legend of the Golden Dragon” and I thank you for awakening the fantasy within me! If you ever get the chance, I would apprechiate the help and get some ideas. Although I know you must be busy writing your third book, “Brisingr” I’d like it if you could contact me at alexsm1991@yahoo.com for some ideas. I know that you may not reply, but if anyone in your family like Angela gets that chance, let him know that hes also my greatest and most faviorate author of all time. One last thing: Eka celobra ono. And may your swords stay sharp!
on August 19th, 2008 at 5:11 am
I would like his e-mail so I could ask his honest opinion about that horrible movie that was published that used the name of his amazing book. Seriously? What was up with that movie Chris? That sucked… I was almost thinking of buying a copy to burn it after walking out of theaters. It was so pathetically untrue to the books it was saddening.*sarcasm on* But who cares, right?! You make money! *sarcasm off*. Just please, make a public statement about this… I need to know that you’re still dedicated to your astounding series.
Sincerely, David
on September 3rd, 2008 at 4:25 pm
Dear Christopher Paolini,
I was wondering if you would in fact take some time to email me. I’m doing a english paper on you and was hoping to ask you some questions if you would take the time to email me that would make me really happy to be able to interwove you and so you know your book are more accurate on dragons then any other book that i’ve read in my whole life. Thanks again if you would email me so please please email me.
on September 7th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
I just wanna say that i LOVE the Inheritance cycle!
on September 8th, 2008 at 4:48 am
hi i just wanted to say HURRRRRRYYY UP ON THE NEXT BOOK
on September 24th, 2008 at 1:54 am
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on September 24th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
Atra esterni ono thelduin/ Un du evarinya ono varda
Atra nosu waise vardo fra eld hornya
people shut up and give Christopher a break if u dont ill knock ur heads in and whenever someone says his books suck keep ur stinkin opinions to ur self got it good Angela svit-kona if u read this which as far as i have read on hear u have please tell ur entire family thank you for helping Christopher Paolini in writing his books and i hope u enspire him more and tell Christopher paolini to take a break and keep working hard
Se onr sverdar sitja hvass
Vangr Sulblaka Nangoroth
on September 25th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
if any body has his email will you please send it to me gavinlbarnhill@hotmail.com
on September 25th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
chris will you send me your email
on September 28th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Dear mr. Paolini,
Hello! I wanted to know something about the book Brisingr..
Well.. You know the part when The Varden gets attacked when Eragon is busy preparing the wedding for Roran? Well the soldiers of Galbartorix had no pain. So when u attacked them they wouldnt die. I didnt really like that. Because.. It doesnt give a real feeling of a battle…. It is more like a fake thing. It is hard to explain.. I think you are the best author in the world but does kind of things, like the soldiers with no pain.. dont put does kind of things in the following books. I dont mean to be the boss about how you write but i am just giving some advice.
on September 29th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
hey,
I realize that you probably don’t read these, and that this is rather pointless. BUt i’m really ticked off. Not that I don’t love your books. They are amazingly creative and well written, and I can never put them down. But I waited two years for the third book to come out, thinking it was going to be the final one (considering that the word trilogy MEANS THREE). I am fourteen now, and I do not want to be reading about dragons, elves and magic spells when I am 16 years old. Mr. Paolini, I am a large, muscular guy, but I am still scared about reading your books in grade ELEVEN!! I was really mad when I found out that the third wasn’t the final one, and I LOVE long books, so in my opinion, you should have made the third really long, Because now I’m really not looking foreward to waiting another two years for the FOURTH book to come out. You didn’t even need the entire Feinster seige at the end of Brisingr. You just put it in because you needed more excitement in the book. Feinster was rarely mentioned before the third book, and you made it so much more momentous than it needed to be. All your books end in battles and the third one should have been the last. If you care to notice, you will see all trilogies follow the same system: first battle, good guys barely win, second battle, its a tie, and third battle is huge and momentous. But you broke the system! The first battle was GREAT, second battle was GREAT and dramatic, and the third battle sucked ass monkeys!!! Not that it wasnt exciting but its no way to end a book that wont have a sequel for two years!! I know there isn’t anything you can really do about it now. But HURRY, HURRY, HURRY on the fourth book! Oh and by the way, I think that your explanation of Galbatorix’s power wasn’t that good. I think that there should have been a big surprise about Galbatorix. We don’t ever see or talk to or communicate in any way with Galbatorix which makes us think that something is up, and maybe there is a bigger mystery going on. But why i ask you, didn’t Galbatorix fly out of Uru baen and slaughter all the Varden when is clearly all powerful? It will be hard for you to finish the fourth book with all the strings tied off, and your readers satisfied. But if you are going ot make us wait anohter two years. It had better be REALLY REALLY good. Well, on the off chance you do read these, thanks for reading my entry. Otherwise, whatever.
eagerly awaiting the fourth book in the TRILOGY (ya liar)
Ben
on September 29th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
also if J.R.R. tolkien were alive today, he’d sue your ass!
on October 1st, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Hwatum il skilfz gerdumn ben
u r an i di ot
i am fifteen and still reading reading books like the inheritance CYCLE Christopher paolini did not lie he believed that the third book would be to long so he decided to change the trilogy to a cycle so shut ur mouth got it goodbye have a nice day
Se onr sverdar sitja hvass
Vangr Skulblaka Nangoroth
on October 5th, 2008 at 9:44 am
I am a writer at the age of 12, and I am witing about something a little like your book. I was wondering if you could give me permission to write something like your book, and advice because I could use some from the writer I’ve always looked up to.I’ve read books from other authors, but none of them are as phenomenal as your books.Atra esterni ono theduin,Christopher-elda.Eka elrun ono.
on October 5th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
Ummm… I have got one main concern. The movie stunk.Arya did not go back to the elves right after the battle.And Zar`roc sometimes didnt have a its ruby.And the timing? Brom died BEFORE Arya came , people!!! She was also in a coma-like state.Where did Solembum go? ALRIGHT, the movie was SUPER CORNY!!!!
Dont let the producers boss you around and watch out for the little details that tick readers off when they are not there.
ps talk to anne rice.look at interview of the vampire movie.