Originality is Dead

I must wonder if I am the only one who has noticed the blatant display of plot stealing evident in the popular Eragon series of books. If you don't know, Star Wars is about Luke Skywalker, an orphan who lives with his farmer uncle who is killed by the empire because Luke received some important blue object(R2-D2) from a princess. Luke then teams up with an old wizard who seems to know everything to go rescue the princess and join the Rebellion.
Now here's the thing, Eragon's plot is exactly the same! Just replace the name Luke Skywalker with Eragon, Obi Wan with Brom, Princess Leia with an elf chick, and R2-D2 with a dragon. Eragon's plot is: Eragon is an orphan who lives on a farm with his uncle. In a prologue, we see a princess captured by the evil empire. Before she is captured, she sends a mysterious blue object to the farm boy.
Eragon finds the object, its a dragon egg that the evil Empire wants very much. So they send evil black hooded creatures (who are just like the Nazgul from Lord of the Rings) to kill Eragon's uncle and leave the farm house in ruins. Sound familiar? So Eragon teams up with an old wizard to set out to kill the creepy hooded things and join the Rebellion. On the way they find a captured Princess who they rescue and Brom teaches Eragon the ways of the Force-I mean magic. Brom gives Eragon a lightsaber, I mean sword that used to belong to Eragon's father. They also meet a scruffy and mysterious mercenary who hitches along for the ride. End of book one. It gets worse...in book two, The Eragon Strikes Back, or Eldest, Eragon goes and learns more advanced magic from an old elf man who lives alone in the woods. At the end of the book, he discovers his father was one of the main evil guys and the new evil guy, who was the scruffy mercenary from book one, is actually his brother. Its hard to believe that Eragon didn't get his hand chopped off.
This really isn't that surprising. The book was written by a nerdy seventeen year old who graduated from high school when he was 15. It's really no wonder that Star Wars of all things subliminally made its way onto the page. However, it is unfortunate that that page turned out to be one of the best selling children's fantasy series. So lesson learned: originality is dead.
Tell the People.