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In lugnet.castle, Mark James writes:
> In lugnet.castle, Dave Schuler writes:
> > I haven't read any of these cultishly popular books, so I'm in no position
> > to judge or make other comment, but what do Potter fans make of this:
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> > http://more.abcnews.go.com/sections/gma/goodmorningamerica/gma010320_potter_suit.html
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> > An extremely odd coincidence, at any rate!
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> The author NK Stouffer's website - www.realmuggles.com - has a list of
> infringement examples which includes such uncanny shared attributes as...
>
> mythical place - perhaps those old Greek guys should sue too?
> muggle families - what, they *breed*?
> muggle village - what, they live in *communities*?
> boats travel across lake - hey, *moving* boats?
> castle on cliff - wow, no-one's ever thought of building one there before
> flagstone floors / great hall - strange things to find in a castle
> characters dressed in tights / quill pens and parchment / underground caves
> / and on, and on, and on...
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> The format was nailed down into a cod-medieval/'age of chivalry' milleau
> (with a few Nordic bits and Christian allegory) by Tolkien and the Inklings.
> No-one has significantly deviated from this.
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, etc.
But all this can't be what Bruce was referring to before about _The Sword of
Shannara_ as fantasy plagarism, since that novel is almost unique (in my
experience at least) as being a fantasy novel set on a post-nuclear-apocalyptic
Earth. On the other hand, I might argue that Terry Brooks plagarizes
*himself*, since his Shannara books get very, very repetitive. . .
TWS Garrison
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