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Re: Harry Potter?
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lugnet.castle
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Thu, 22 Mar 2001 15:25:39 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Frank Filz writes:
> 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 the publisher liked the book - so,
> McKiernan had to write the back story for his sequel... The Iron Tower
> trilogy was MUCH more of a rip off than Sword of Shanara.
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> Frank
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 pastiche. From the standpoint of it esentially
being intended as a derivative work, it at least had an original story, and
hardly matches the scale of wholesale plaigarism that Brooks indulges in.
Bruce
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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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| (...) 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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