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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> There's original art, and there's adaptive art. Tolkien was an original artist, a visionary genius. There are few original artists in the world (Mozart, Beethoven, Daugerre, Frank Lloyd Wright, to name a few). <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Are there any?<BR>Pretty much all art is inspired by or influenced by those that have gone before. It would well nigh impossible for it to be otherwise. Tolkien of course was likewise imfluenced and was the first to admit it..<BR>I would struggle to think of one piece of totally original art.<P>Although Derek Jarman's film Blue must come close. A film that totally consists of a blue screen.<P>That was not to say that it wasn't crap though...