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Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:
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> In lugnet.castle, Frank Filz writes:
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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 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
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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 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.
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: lugnet.off-topic.fun
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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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