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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 (...) (23 years ago, 22-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | Re: Harry Potter? —Richard Noeckel
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| | | | | (...) I've had the pleasure of reading most of Dennis L. Mckiernan's entire line of books. And I find his writing to be dynamic, enthralling and among the best in the genre! He sites J.R.R. Tolken; among others, in his foreword as being "fine (...) (23 years ago, 22-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | Re: Harry Potter? —Erik Olson
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| | | | | | (...) You know, this claim has been made a thousand times... Why? Does it sell books? Can it ever be trusted? Why is this the first time I've ever heard of this author? What does it mean to surpass Tolkien in 'intensity'? Tolkien is not an author (...) (23 years ago, 22-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | Re: Harry Potter? —Bruce Schlickbernd
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| | | | (...) There were very serious talks about his work becoming an official extension of Tolkien's work (anything is better than Christopher Tolkien out-Bilboing his father with meandering editing). So, yes, McKiernan's work was originally intended as a (...) (23 years ago, 22-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | Re: Harry Potter? —Frank Filz
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| | | | (...) But the Iron Tower trilogy which was written to give the base series for the later books to rest on had incredible correlation with Lord of the Rings. It seemed like every major scene had a parallel in Lord of the Rings. FUT: (...) (23 years ago, 22-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: Harry Potter? —Bruce Schlickbernd
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| | | | (...) Brooks had scene-for-scene, character-for-character matches (in the same sequence as LOTR) - geez, a fellowship with four little guys, one dwarf, one elf, two men, and a wizard, for heaven's sake. He just added new names, and that was about (...) (23 years ago, 22-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: Harry Potter? —Frank Filz
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| | | | (...) I just don't remember it being so bluntly obvious as the Iron Tower trilogy was. Perhaps there was some difference in frame of mind when I read them (but note that I did read the Iron Tower trilogy much later than I did Sword of Shanara, and (...) (23 years ago, 22-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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