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Re: Plagarism in Fantasy Novels? (was Re: Harry Potter?)
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Date: 
Wed, 21 Mar 2001 21:09:04 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Thomas Garrison writes:

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.

  What about Thundarrrrrr the Barbarian and his Fabulous Sun Sword?

     Dave!



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  Plagarism in Fantasy Novels? (was Re: Harry Potter?)
 
(...) 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, (...) (23 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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