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<blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 9043470" data-attributes="member: 15700">I don't know of any quote Brooks said where he admitted the copied LoTR item by item, but I do know Lester Del Rey (his publisher) say he wanted to have Sword of Shannara be Tolkien-lite. A book for the masses, because by then Tolkien started to wane in popularity (from the spike during the 60s), and let's be honest, was not an easy read.&nbsp; Some folks consider Rey and Brooks with saving the genre by creating a novel that could actually be easily read.&nbsp; That was the intent anyway.On a side note, no one accuses George Lucas of ripping off Tolkien either, and Star Wars is the space version of LotR, and came out the same year as SoS. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sacrosanct, post: 9043470, member: 15700"] I don't know of any quote Brooks said where he admitted the copied LoTR item by item, but I do know Lester Del Rey (his publisher) say he wanted to have Sword of Shannara be Tolkien-lite. A book for the masses, because by then Tolkien started to wane in popularity (from the spike during the 60s), and let's be honest, was not an easy read. Some folks consider Rey and Brooks with saving the genre by creating a novel that could actually be easily read. That was the intent anyway. On a side note, no one accuses George Lucas of ripping off Tolkien either, and Star Wars is the space version of LotR, and came out the same year as SoS. ;) [/QUOTE]

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