The pen is mightier than the sword!
….or at the very least better at telling a story…
“The songs of the dead are the lamentations of the living. So thought Eragon as he stepped over a twisted and hacked Urgal, listening to the keening of women who removed loved ones from the blood-muddied ground of Farthen Dur.” (Eldest 1)
Even without having read Eragon this passage will paint a vivid picture of destruction, regardless of the readers knowledge of Urgals and Farthen Dur. These words wrapped me up in my favorite installation of The Inheritance Cycle right from the get-go, and straight into the non-stop-wizards-and-dragons-and-elves type of Lord-of-the-Ringsish fantasy novel that I go nuts over.
if you haven’t read it go do so… Now… What are you waiting for… If you’re still reading this you had better have read The Inheritance Cycle.