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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
Or they aren't motivated by money. Books are like music, you get the most profit by writing to a formula that is popular at the time. The chances of someone writing what they want to write and then ending up with a bestseller are next to zero. It does happen now and again, but it's no coincidence that when it does happen there's lots of similar stuff available almost immediately.
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It makes me wonder. Would Harry Potter, and all those other "new" series, be as popular as they are now, if the Fantasy craze headed by The Lord of the Rings movies had never happened?
I feel as if Baldur's Gate resurrected the Fantasy RPG on the pc, while the LotR movies resurrected the Fantasy movies and books for the masses.... I only started playing RPG's and read Fantasy after a friend introduced me to Baldur's Gate and LotR in 1998; now I've played many of those games and read many books, released both before and after 1998, and it seems I'm not alone.