[ SECRET POST #2889 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2889 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

LotR basically invented the whole modern High Fantasy Genre, most books pay homage to it in some way even today, and of course the closer you get in time to the genre originator the more faithfully you have to follow its tropes and characterisations. It needed a lot of Tolkien ripoffs for their to be enough material and fans thereof to give authors enough room to start playing with it and going in different directions. Brooks' is just a product of his time.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not sure that's quite accurate. Brooks' novel does a lot more than use similar tropes and characterisations, you can practically match his cast character by character with Tolkien's, and his plot is near identical-- see upthread for a basic summary. That's more than "homage". People aren't just complaining because he too, has elves and dwarves in his book.

[cushlamochree]

Even if he was of his time, I don't see how that's really an excuse. People were writing original fantasy in 1977.

[(Anonymous)]

This. It's not like being a writer in 1977 doomed you to plagiarizing the classics, so the whole "product of his time" thing is a little weird. Stealing from another author is never inevitable, it's a personal choice.