Re:No works of fantasy since Tolkien are original?
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I've seen a lot of people claiming that all fantasy since Tolkien is simply an (often poor) rehashing of fundamental elements of LOTR and other Tolkien works. While I think this is quite often the case (see Sword of Shanarra and other Shanarra trash, the Wheel of Time Harlequin romance series, ad nauseum), there are many examples of highly original fantasy that don't pilfer from Tolkien.
Well, supposedly all of Western literature is but a(n often poor:) footnote to Shakespeare....but of course ol' Will nicked most of his story ideas from somewhere else, so where does that leave us? Who is the ur-litgeek who pulled the ur-story out of his ur-ass, anyway?
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Well, a decade and a half anyway...
Well, supposedly all of Western literature is but a(n often poor :) footnote to Shakespeare....but of course ol' Will nicked most of his story ideas from somewhere else, so where does that leave us? Who is the ur-litgeek who pulled the ur-story out of his ur-ass, anyway?