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| (...) There's an even worse "copy" of Lord of the Rings - The Iron Tower trilogy by Dennis L. McKiernan. It was explained to me once that this resulted from McKiernan having written a sequel to Lord of the Rings, and having it rejected as such, but (...) (24 years ago, 22-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| Is it “9 sets” in total for the initial run, or are the “9 sets” slated to be spread out over the course of each movie? I'm assuming that all “9 sets” are for the *first* Harry Potter movie, But doesn’t this seem to be a bit excessive to you (...) (24 years ago, 22-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.town)
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| lol I suppose this will be happening a lot until the movie comes out-- someone mentions in passing something about the Hogwart's Express, that subject is quickly dropped and a long thread about HP continues on in .trains. People, please keep on (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.town)
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| (...) As an aside Norbert is definitely a key figure in the movie. At the Toy fair some companies did display their Norbert toys. How Lego might create Norbert depends a bit on which stage of his growth they choose to depict. Jonathan L (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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| (...) Au, contraire! "Man in the High Castle" won him the Hugo in the early 60's (though admittedly it was a different kind of castle...) Dave! (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) Robert Asprin before Pratchett, and De Camp/Pratt (oooooo, Pratchett, what a rip-off) before Asprin. (...) Yes, but Dick doesn't relate to Castles. :-) Bruce (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) I've only read a little of his stuff (at a friend's urging), and after ninety years of reading I was still in the first chapter. Not, for me, the most engaging prose style. Regretably (or not), I can't really assess his plagiarism, but I (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) 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, (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) Well, in that case, I hope they do lots of buildings from, eh, crud. The wizard town near Hogwart's. I can only imagine they'd be really good fodder for making medieval/small European town buildings. eric (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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| (...) Exactly my point. I was talking about the future possibilities beyond the sets for release this November. Katie (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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| (...) LEGO's license is for the movie. If something's not in the movie, it's not going to be in the LEGO sets. If they leave Norbert out of the movie? No LEGO Norbert. The only way LEGO will be doing something from the other books is if for some (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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| (...) I rather enjoyed the Harry Potter books, but then I'm a Tolkien cultist. :-) (...) Trademark infringement would most likely get her a piece of the action. (...) Borrowing or being inspired by, and out-and-out character-for-character and (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) Hmmmm....... I can think of tons of sets they can do, especially in the books after the first one. But I wouldn't want to give any secrets away for those that haven't read all four books. Maybe after the first initial launch of the sets, they (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
| | | | | Plagarism in Fantasy Novels? (was Re: Harry Potter?)
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| (...) I'd say the genre predates Tolkien and co. (see, e.g., _The Worm Ouroboros_ by E.R. Eddison). Tolkien is the archetype for much later s&s fantasy--notice blatent use of orcs (you can barely argue a medieval precedent), his spelling of dwarfs, (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) I have high hopes for a really big castle set and a Hogwarts Express train. Other than that I am not sure what they can do. At least Star Wars had lots of space ships. I can't think of what else they can do. Ron's car? The accessories may be (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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| (...) Maybe US$10m, but if her whole empire is based on a stolen premise (again, I'm not saying that it is), her whole empire belongs to the person she stole it from, even if she doesn't "remember" stealing it! Dave! (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) JK Rowling is the highest-earning woman in the UK, with projected earnings of something *mad* like £170m (US$250m-ish) over the next three years from films, toy licencing, some weird fizzy pop tie-in and, um, oh yes - 'book sales'. She can (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| For those of you too busy with little bits of plastic to read books, check out this url: (URL) Return of The King is a particular favourite. (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) ***snip of characteristics entirely generic to the fantasy genre*** Yeah, those are some far-fetched claims, to be sure. But at issue, according to the ABC article, is the undeniably similar proper names in the two series rather than broad "I (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) the creatures are indeed goblins in HP the run a bank (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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