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(...) Tolkien pretty much did his thing for self-satisfaction rather than packaging something to be "sold" to a popular audience. In any case, Tolkien was interested more in mythology than actual history. I saw Inventing the Middle Ages on a (...) (24 years ago, 22-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Plagarism in Fantasy Novels? (was Re: Harry Potter?)
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(...) Yup, that seems to ring a bell. Anyway, the word "Orc" couldn't really be protected under trademark laws (at least in this country). Bruce (24 years ago, 22-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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This is related to the current thread of debat on fantasy fiction but is not a direct response to any single posting so I though I would free it from that entangled thread. The Harry Potter books have a direct relationship to a fine lineage of books (...) (24 years ago, 22-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Plagarism in Fantasy Novels? (was Re: Harry Potter?)
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(...) "Sword of Sha na na?" BWAAAAAA! :) Lord Bowser, your mighty steed awaits! (...) I'll put on the "historian cap" here: most Mediaevalists hate it, but Norman Cantor's polemic _Inventing the Middle Ages_ has a rather ...interesting... chapter on (...) (24 years ago, 22-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Interesting - personally I listen to music that sounds good to my ears. I find the notion that because you are X you must listen to a certain type of music odd - for example, as a Scottish person I don't feel any great compulsion to listen to (...) (24 years ago, 22-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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