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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 2053921" data-attributes="member: 2205">Eh?  What's that?  Not Tolkien, you say?  I seem to remember these characters in Tolkien...  I think their names were Frodo and Sam and Pippin and Happy or something like that.  Merry, maybe?  The description seems to fit them perfectly, with the added bonus that they're literally physically small, not just metaphorically so, as Croaker.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />   They weren't princes, heroes or destined and foretold prodigies of any kind; they were just little, common men who were in the right place at the right time.  Or maybe the wrong place at the wrong time.I also don't know that Cook started a real movement in fantasy; certainly the sub-category of "military fantasy" is still very small, and the only other ones I can think of that work in it are guys like Stan Nicholls who quite blatantly imitate Cook (not that I knew this until recently; I read Nicholls before reading Cook.)Where Cook does do something really unique that's left it's mark on fantasy as a whole though is in this whole gritty, pragmatic, cynical, jaded, hardboiled tone.Of course, there may be works with which I'm unfamiliar that do this before Cook too, but I think it's safe to say that even if there are, Cook's the one who's influence is being felt today, not those other chaps.</blockquote>

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