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Originally Posted by Fluribus
When I read the Sword of Shannara all those years ago, my reaction was the same as Harry's. I was never some shrill "everybody's ripping off Tolkien" guy, but in this book Tolkien was more omnipresent than God in the Bible. Doesn't mean that I thought Brooks was a crook. Doesn't mean that I didn't read any of his other books.
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If you haven't dismissed his entire body of work based on the first two-thirds of his first book, then feel free to assume my post wasn't directed at you. It is directed at the people who think Brooks is
still nothing but a "Tolkien ripoff artist"--thirty-plus years and double-digit books later.
Let me ask you this: how much "absolutely zero comparisons to Tolkien can be made" fantasy did you read in the late 70s early 80s?