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Happy Monday!
Today is Donna’s and my (but mostly Donna’s) 19 year wedding anniversary.
WOOT!
Obviously NEXT year I have to plan something really special.
She’s thinking, maybe, Hawaii?
Yikes.
Neither of us have ever been. And of course…we’d have to bring the boys along too.
Here’s hoping we make some money this year…ha ha. I’m gonna need it.
🙂
Thank you all for reading.
Scott
PS. Big hug for the first person to guess the relevance of the name of the pool.
GUESS…not GOOGLE.
First!
Scott,
It’s from the Neverending Story, right?
-Tink
D: You beat me to it!
Tink, I wanted to say the same thing! Now the question is, though, from the book or from the movie? Cuz they were actually very different in both!
Happy anniversary Scott =)
And for those poor souls that read the last Paolini book (I hope it is the last he ever writes….), the relevance of neverending story is as great as the word plagiarism.
Seriously, don’t read those books.
And here I was, about to say that Auryn sounded like some kind of visual element… Yeah, it’s a visual element. Visual as in they can see what’s going on, and even interfere, yeah. Cool!
You confuse me. Paolini didn’t write the Neverending Story. It’s a German book from the late seventies written by Michael Ende.
I just checked in after being on vacation. I have to say, I really love the facial expressions in that last page. And also: Niviene’s hair is amazing!
Congratulations to you and your wife, Scott. Book your flight to Hawaii now, and who knows what kind of discount you can get?
The fun part is going to be explaining to your wife how you’re bringing along all those books to sign for your Hawaiian fans to finance the trip – and persuading the airline they’re carry-on luggage. 😉
Yup!
The Neverending Story was yet another inspiration for The Dreamland Chronicles.
The MOVIE…not the book.
The Rock Biter was a big inspiration for Paddington Rumblebottom III (along with Ben Grim from the Fantastic Four).
I loved the movie as a kid. It’s always stuck with me.
x-ray machines might put a hiccup in that plan
Month is talking about the Eldest series of books – something about dragons. I haven’t read them so I don’t know what the relevance of comment.
What? How could you remember that? I’m suppose to be the movie trivia person in the house! :p
Congratulations, Scott and Donna!
Awesome! Of course I’m extremely late, but I just now looked at the page and that’s the first thing that came to mind!!! Always did think Paddington had ‘big strong hands’… 😉
Yup, judging by what Moth said and what I know of the Eldest series, I’m inferring that he meant the Eldest series copies the Neverending Story in a rather shabby fashion, to put it politely.
Yay for the origins of mermaid myths! 🙂
My parents went on a cruise to Cozumel for their 25th, and they said it was quite awesome. Granted, they didn’t have to take me along because I was in college at the time… 🙂 I’m a little jealous of your kids for being able to join you on what will surely be an awesome trip. My closest chance to do something like that as a young kid was when my parents went with my grandparents to England when I was in 3rd grade. I was invited, but like a total nerd/idjit I turned it down because I didn’t want to miss a full week of school and have to make up the work. Changed my mind two weeks before the trip, but of course it was too late (I didn’t have a passport). I ended up staying with a family down the street from us while my parents played around in London.
Moral of the story: Don’t let your kids decide whether or not they should go with you on a really cool trip. There’s a good chance they’ll make the wrong choice and regret it for a long time. 🙂
How did/does she know the name of the pool? 🙂
Congratulations!
So Niviene was the origin of the Mermaid myth on Earth. Perhaps there are similar looking holes and maybe even gaps through which we got glimpses of fairies, dragons, elves, and who knows what… Or perhaps those are memories from childhood dreams…
Alex: FALCOR!!!!
Ummm… I may like that movie a bit too much….
Final side note…. Never Ending Story 2… one of the worst sequels… EVER!
Edit: My last post was edited somehow, After Alex cries out Falcor, I wrote
And the Luck Dragon flies in and scares away Nicodemus while Atreyu rides his horse below them cheering!!
Happy anniversary, Scott. 🙂
Now I just want to go watch Neverending Story again…
Happy Anniversary!! 🙂
I agree… the sequel was the worst!!
Happy Anniversary, Scott! Good luck with your Hawaii plans. I’ll be sure to try and support you however I can.
Nice tie in to the nautical myths and legends, Scott!
Happy Anniversary as well, and here’s hoping you get that trip to Hawaii!
That’s exactly what it does. I want that 8 hours of my life back.
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I understand that Niviene was able to enter the world of humans through that magic pool, but it is supposed that she lives in the Dreamland, the realm of dreams where a human can enter while dreaming, with or without special items.
So how is it possible for Niviene to enter the human world as she exist only in human’s dreams?
Is there an incosistency, or we admit that the Pool of Auryn is a magical place so don’t bother about space-time continuum as the human logic dictates?
Also: how does she know the name of the magic Pool? Is there a sign or something?
B-)
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SHe’s able to SEE into our world. Not enter.
So did Niviene come up with the name…?? Did she see Neverending Story too? Or did certain parts of Neverending Story exist in Dreamland?
Thanks for the heads up, guys. I’ll make sure not to read it. Not that I was planning to after reading the first one… it was full of childish logic flaws (Really, Jerdon? To find a safe place to talk, you choose a room that the governor mysteriously forced you and other merchants to rent inside the castle? Aren’t you against the Empire? And Brom, you just asked if Eragon has heard the ocean described, he said yes, you then described it in words again, and then claimed that it cannot be described by words. Very helpful.). Given, it WAS written by a child and he did a good job for his age at the time… but yeah, someone should have went through the story with him before letting him publish it >.>
Happy Anniversary! =D
Erm, technically, it’s called the Inheritance Cycle. Inheritance Trilogy before it outgrew the length of its third book.
So, where are you taking Donna for dinner? Taking the kids? Tell us the intimate details of your life!! Just kidding. Hawaii is nice but a pretty much a tourist trap and way over priced. For about the same cost you can do what my parents are doing and take a cruise from Venice to Byzantine Ravenna, Split, Rome, Florence, Avignon, Arles, and finally to Cannes. Just a suggestion. 😀
and this is where the legends of mermaids comes from.
So–she’s not gonna distribute swords as the basis for a system of government? 🙁
And Happy Anniversary! 😀
If I remember from the books the AURYN in the talisman the Childlike Empress gives to Bastian. The Pool of Life is guarded by the two serpents of the AURYN (bit like the sea serpents guarding the pool….another reference Scott?) one light the other dark. It allows Bastian to go home in the end.
Oddly enough the wife told me she had never seen the movie several weeks ago. Bought it and watched it this weekend. Not only did she realize she had seen it but she totally got sucked back in again. 😀
Hm, I’ve read both Inheritance and The Neverending Story, I don’t remember any similarities…? I mean, besides there being dragons and a boy…
Inheritance was stupid enough on its own. I mean, the two-page-long bit about that one guy’s fingernails was completely original, and look how stupid it is. The man himself doesn’t serve any significance, and he’s killed offscreen a couple chapters later. I figured if Paolini’s going to take the time to write two entire pages (two ENTIRE pages…I’m sorry, I can’t get over that) to describe one man’s shiny fingernails, they had better the heck SERVE A PURPOSE IN THE STORY….
Er…The same way Mother Gothel knew to sing to a flower to gain immortality? 😀
Clearly you’ve never seen the third. The second one is AMAZING in comparison once you watch the third. xD
(Actually, the second one follows the book more than the first. I just have to add that.)
Neverending Story wasn’t the only story Paolini “borrowed” from. Anne McCaffrey, Piers Anthony, Andre Norton, Terry Brooks, just to name a few… There are numerous concepts and plot points in his books that were created by these authors long before Paolini was born!
Sed ut inveniat eam inmortal aliqua dulcia?
It’s the movie. I’m almost 100% sure of that.
Yay, Happy Annie Scott and Donna!!! 😀
And you know why? The lad wasn’t trying to be original. He was a kid writing for fun, who admits to having used/borrowed elements he enjoyed from what he’d read in the past. He didn’t mean the thing to be published. His parents were the ones who encouraged that to happen. And when you see the series as somebody’s extended daydreams starting when he was 15, it’s a whole lot better than if you expect it to be the world’s next literary miracle.
I begun reading them. After 50 pages, I lost interest. I asked a friend how it goes, since he read it, and he was like “Please don’t let me relive the torture.” It’s that bad.