Christopher Paolini Net Worth

Knopf (a New York publishing house). To date, the Inheritance Cycle has sold more than 33 million copies. Paolini cites his literary inspirations as the works of J.R.R. Tolkien (author of the famed classics The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion) and E.R. Eddison (and English civil servant and author of The Worm Ouroboros and others). He says that Eragon was specifically inspired by Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher by author Bruce Coville.