Part two of our exclusive interview with Christopher Paolini from Comic-Con International has finally arrived! We sat down with Christopher and threw nearly every good question we received in an over-thirty-five-minute interview. The interview has been broken into three parts and we are excited to share part two with you now. Part one created quite the level of buzz with Christopher Paolini's revelation that Eragon is currently being held captive, restrained by manacles, by an unknown enemy in the Book 4 manscript. The interview continues to not disappoint in a very revealing part two! This portion of our interview touches on a number of interesting subjects: the deaths of Oromis and Glaedr, the presumed deaths of the original Eragon and his dragon, confirmation Arya's training from Oromis, Du Weldenvarden's anti-scrying wards, dragon eggs and their destined Riders, details on a could-have-been bond between Murtagh and Saphira, green egg shell fragments, Alagaesia's physical size, heart of hearts hive minds and email, phantoms, the dragon thief, lifespan of an Urgal, dragon shades, and more! Continue reading...
Christopher Paolini threw quite the curve-ball our way during interviews, panels, and chats at Comic-Con. Those of you who have already listened to part one of our Comic-Con Interview with Christopher Paolini will know that a very interesting fact from Book 4 was shared during the interview: Christopher left off writing Book 4 to head for Comic-Con at a point where Eragon was hanging bloodied from manacles and killed a character. However, the instance in which this was brought up during the interview was brief and incomplete. Many people have asked us how we knew this and what it means... so we'd like to share that with you! Keep reading! Continue reading...
The wait is over and part one of our exclusive interview with Christopher Paolini from the 2010 Comic-Con International has finally arrived! We sat down with Christopher and threw nearly every good question we received in an over-thirty-five-minute interview. The interview has been broken into three parts and we are excited to share part one with you now. Part one touches on many great topics, including true names (they're "serious business"!), Joed, Arya, Solembum's eyes, floating crystals and dream caves, premonitions and prophecies, Tornac the horse, Oromis, Glaedr, sixth senses, and more! Continue reading for the interview! Continue reading...
As we previously reported, Christopher Paolini recently attended the Boy Scouts' 100th Jamboree in Washington D.C. While at the Jamboree, Christopher held a book signing and a Q&A session with the Boy Scouts in attendance. Thanks to a Boy Scout reporter for Pittsburgh's KDKA news station, we have a list of Christopher's revelations during his Q&A session. We've organized them for your viewing after the jump... and some of the information is quite interesting! Book 4 details, writing progress update... and more Inheritance books?!Continue reading...
Today's news is a bit of a break from our Comic-Con coverage! On his return from Comic-Con, Christopher Paolini made a pit-stop in Washington D.C., where he and fellow author Michael Scott attended the 100th Anniversary Boy Scouts’ Jamboree! Our friends over at Random House have put together a great write-up about Christopher's time at the event, including his book signings and time in the shooting range, which you can read on their Random Acts of Reading blog!
Comic-Con is best described as four solid days of pop culture, geek culture, fantasy/scifi/horror culture awesomeness. Join us as we retell the first day of Comic-Con, during which we met up with Christopher to travel the convention floor, attended panels featuring authors such as Michael Scott, Esther Friesner, Christopher Paolini, Patrick Rothfuss, Brandon Sanderson and more! And join us as we take you behind the scenes to Random House Publishing Group's Comic-Con Kick Off party!Continue reading...
Comic-Con is best described as four solid days of pop culture, geek culture, fantasy/scifi/horror culture awesomeness. The convention had us on our feet for nearly six days as we set out to cover as much of the convention as we could to report back for you all! This year we were lucky enough to be joined by a whole host of amazing authors and industry leaders, including Christopher Paolini himself! This first part of our Comic-Con coverage talks about what Comic-Con really is and our adventures on Day Zero (Preview Night), including wandering the convention halls with Christopher Paolini!Continue reading...
We wanted to share a very early look at the new version of Shur'tugal! The design is mostly complete - content placement, navigation, sidebars, and content formatting is all still in the very early stages of development. Shur'tugal will also be running on an entirely new news, content management, and comments system. We have more details to share with you if you keep reading, including a big announcement regarding a new website! Continue reading...
Our galleries from this year's Comic-Con International in San Diego are now live! Shur'tugal tagged along with Christopher Paolini and a whole host of Random House authors for this year's convention and we are delighted to finally share the images we brought back home! We've divided the content into several galleries:
Christopher Paolini at Comic-Con Series of pictures from Christopher Paolini's events in addition to Christopher browsing many of the show floor's booths.
Comic-Con Pictures from the Show Floor One of our most fascinating galleries -- Pictures from the Show Floor features a large selection of pictures documenting exactly what it was like to attend 2010's Comic-Con International.
Costumes at Comic-Con Many people put days and even weeks into their Comic-Con costumes! Check out some of our favorites.
Doctor Who Fan Meet-up It's no secret that the Shur'tugal staff (and even the Paolini family) are big fans of the British TV series Doctor Who! Come along with us to the fan costume meet-up!
Comic-Con itself has come and gone but Shur’tugal’s coverage of the annual pop culture convention is far from over! Many of you are fully aware that Shur’tugal staff spent five days covering nearly every aspect of the convention and brought back much to show for it – pictures, video, reports, interviews, and free stuff!
We are very excited to share the final product of our coverage with you and have put together a schedule of when to expect each type of content over the next week. This schedule includes when you’ll find our interviews with Christopher Paolini in addition to a new episode of Shurtycast. Keep reading for a full schedule! Continue reading...
The Shur'tugal team has made it back to our respective homes safely, and we are beginning to wind down. It was an amazing experience, that we have documented fairly well. But we assume you are all wondering about when we will update the site.... Continue reading...
Each day during our Comic-Con coverage (starting July 22nd and running through the 25th), we released a “word” on the website. For everyone who visited the site each day in order to find the word, we've opened up the contest entry form to allow you to enter for your chance to win one of three (3) prize packages!
More details on the contests of the prize packages including over eight books from five authors, all autographed - including at least book one from Christopher Paolini himself - promotional DVDs, t-shirts, signed photos, and more! Continue reading...
Comic-Con International 2010 has been a busy and exciting time here at Shur'tugal. It has been so busy that many visitors may not be able to keep up with all of the information streaming out of San Diego. We've put together all of the Twitter updates from the convention to make it easy for everyone to find without having to scroll through tons of updates.
Check after the break for the full time line of events so far! Continue reading...
With us being stuck at Comic-Con for the next few days and busier than ever, it's tough to share the story of "The Inheritance Almanac". However, Shawn Speakman, webmaster for Terry Brooks (and other authors) and blogger on Suvudu.com made a great blog post about The Inheritance Almanac and some of how it came to be. It's a fun read -- we definitely recommend it! Additionally, Suvudu is doing some great exclusive coverage at Comic-Con; check it out! Read more exclusive details about The Inheritance Almanac over at Suvudu!
I've been keeping this project a secret for nearly two years now and I'm truly excited and honored to be able to finally share it with you all!
The book is being published by Random House, the same publisher as the Inheritance cycle, whom I had the incredible privilege of working with during the creation of the book. I'll have much more to say about the project in the coming days, but for now, enjoy the cover! The book is set to release on October 26th, 2010.
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Today's news is a bit of a break from our Comic-Con coverage! On his return from Comic-Con, Christopher Paolini made a pit-stop in Washington D.C., where he and fellow author 
