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Harry, many of these epic fantasy series are unimaginative ripoffs of LOTR, including Jordan and Eddings. I don't see how being less blatant a ripoff makes them any less of a ripoff.
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Plus at least Brooks had the guts to
admit that his
very first attempt at writing a novel resulted in a blatant LOTR ripoff. He owned it and quickly moved on to his own style of writing. How many of the other rip-off artists from the early eighties can say the same? Whether you choose to
like Brooks' writing style or not is, of course, completely up to you (and fair game). But holding a grudge against an author for writing one LOTR clone back in 1977 seems a bit petty. Especially in light of the 22 (or so) fairly successful, completely non-LOTR ripoffs he's written since that early first attempt. And whether we like them or not... Terry Brooks, Stephen R. Donaldson and Del Rey are a
huge part of the reason that we are now able to walk into
any book store and buy a fantasy book (that isn't in the children's section or on the comic book rack).