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my opinion is that 9/10s of the fantasy genre is either a cheap spin-off of JRRT, or a very sophmoric rip off of the man's work
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Please don't think this is a personal attack on you (I love your posts- you're very knowledgable) but WHAT??????????????
How can you say that? How much other fantasy have you read? What evidence do you base this on? Have you considered the possibility that they might be drawing on similar sources? And, if I can make a Wheel of Time point, using the same names (which Robert Jordan does quite a lot) is not the same thing as copying an idea or a plotline or anything!
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