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Re: Harry Potter?
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lugnet.castle
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Wed, 21 Mar 2001 21:39:43 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Richard Marchetti writes:
> In lugnet.castle, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
> > But then, the ultimate in fantasy plaigarism is still around - Sword of >Shanara, so who knows.
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> I barely remember seeing this title once or twice. To what, more precisely,
> are you alluding to, Bruce? Just curious...
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> -- Hop-Frog
Terry Brooks' The Sword of Shanara (or the Sword of Sha-na-na, for those of
us who like to sneer at it), illustrated by the Brothers Hildebrandt (at the
height of their Tolkien-illustrating fame). It is a
character-for-character, scene-for-scene rip-off of The Lord of the Rings.
There are scads of books clearly inspired by Tolkien, but these always do
more than simply change the names of characters and places. And Tolkien
himself drew inspiration from Norse, Saxon, and Welsh mythos, much of it on
a linguistic level (Tolkien was a philologist). But Brooks indulged in
simple plaigarism.
Bruce
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| (...) I barely remember seeing this title once or twice. To what, more precisely, are you alluding to, Bruce? Just curious... -- Hop-Frog (23 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle)
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