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kaleidoscope · 11-11-2002, 10:01 PM

A lot of the fantasy books I have read (and I've read quite a few) seem to copy off Tolkien in more than one way. Most have something to the effect of "the little unimportant person goes off to kill big bad guy without knowing much about what they are doing to begin with and group of people that go with little unimportant person to help get lost somewhere along the way." And of course the good guys always win. It is my opinion that these have been copied off Tolkien because his books are the earliest ones in which I have seen that happen. That's just my opinion, though.

11-11-2002, 10:01 PM	#3
kaleidoscope Pile O'Bones Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Missouri, USA Posts: 13	A lot of the fantasy books I have read (and I've read quite a few) seem to copy off Tolkien in more than one way. Most have something to the effect of "the little unimportant person goes off to kill big bad guy without knowing much about what they are doing to begin with and group of people that go with little unimportant person to help get lost somewhere along the way." And of course the good guys always win. It is my opinion that these have been copied off Tolkien because his books are the earliest ones in which I have seen that happen. That's just my opinion, though. __________________ I'm not weird, I'm gifted.