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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dioltach" data-source="post: 3741289" data-attributes="member: 21843">I read Sword back in the early 1980s, and I have to say, at the time it didn't seem derivative. The sad truth was that there wasn't much around in the way of epic fantasy back then.In Sometimes the Magic Works, Terry Brooks explains that Lester del Rey took Sword on as a project to demonstrate that there was a huge untapped market for fantasy books. Sword was selected specifically because it was similar to Lord of the Rings, and would be a recognisable format for the first of its kind to be published for 20 years.All in all, I think that the fantasy genre owes a great deal to Terry Brooks and, in particular, Lester del Rey.That said, no, I don't think that Sword would make a good movie. Perhaps before Peter Jackson had done LotR, but not now. Elfstones would be good, or First King, or possibly the Voyage of the Jerle Shannara series.</blockquote>