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<blockquote data-quote="Parmandur" data-source="post: 9043377" data-attributes="member: 6780330">...Weeeeell, nooooooo. Not at allTolkien drew on and used a lot of material from all over. But in the final analysis, the plot and characters of Lord of the Rings are quite original in many ways. Brooks intentionally was engaging in a totally valid writing exercise where he dissected books he liked and put them back together with legally distinct markings (since he was a smart lawyer). It was copy-pasta, which is a different animal. That doesnapply to his latter works, but the original Shanara books were painted by numbers, which is a valid way to learn how to paint. Brooks did it with other authors and genres before Tolkien, so he had gotten good at that and had a product right when Lester Del Rey needed it, and then was anle.tongo full tike and grow as an original storyteller. For me, it's not even shameful that he was blatantly copying, because that how one learns artistic skills.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Parmandur, post: 9043377, member: 6780330"] ... Weeeeell, nooooooo. Not at all Tolkien drew on and used a lot of material from all over. But in the final analysis, the plot and characters of Lord of the Rings are quite original in many ways. Brooks intentionally was engaging in a totally valid writing exercise where he dissected books he liked and put them back together with legally distinct markings (since he was a smart lawyer). It was copy-pasta, which is a different animal. That doesnapply to his latter works, but the original Shanara books were painted by numbers, which is a valid way to learn how to paint. Brooks did it with other authors and genres before Tolkien, so he had gotten good at that and had a product right when Lester Del Rey needed it, and then was anle.tongo full tike and grow as an original storyteller. For me, it's not even shameful that he was blatantly copying, because that how one learns artistic skills. [/QUOTE]

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