[ SECRET POST #2889 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2889 ⌋

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Comments

[a_potato]

I came here to say something similar to this.

To add: it's pretty common for beginning writers to copy the stories that they like and that have inspired them. I recall Stephen King saying that the first story he ever wrote was nearly a word-for-word replication of a baseball novel he'd enjoyed.

Of course, most of those stories don't get published.

Still, like you said, a lot of high fantasy rips off Tolkien. He set the standard, and a lot of writers are loath to deviate from it (although that seems to be slowly changing).