Eragon Wars?

Ok, So at work today I put up the book Eragon and it got me thinking for when I read the book and watched it in 12th grade. I had to do a book report on it for english.

Anyways, A young farmer boy (Luke) living with his uncle(Uncle Owen) and figures out he is the last of a dieing group the known as the Dragon Riders (Jedi) Who was all killed off by another Dragon rider called morzan (Anakin/Vader) with the help of the king (palpatine) When his uncle gets killed he goes off and joined with a old man brom (Obi Wan) who gives him a sword (lightsaber) of his father. (anakin again). He teaches eragon all he can before he dies (again, obi wan) and later meets a mysterious rebelious muragh (-coughs- sam flynn -coughs- , no really, han solo.) they then meet a rebel group called the vardin (rebel allegiance)


I am sure there are way more things that are the same ut these are what I remember off hand.

Why did this guy not get in trouble? Its clearly a star wars rip off in a lord of the rings style, 2 popular things at the time. Am I the only one to see this?