I guess if you took lots of the single threads of LOTR you could find things that seem stereotypical- love triangle, fall from grace, redemption through suffering, etc. It's the details and the way they all combined which make it unique and different.
What I want to know is, what's wrong with something stereotypical anyway? If a story is interesting, well written, has sympathetic characters...why would it matter that there had been similar things before?
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the Forbidden Link
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