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Originally Posted by rcentros
No, Tolkien didn't steal what others wrote. He started with myths and legends and created completely new and unique characters from them. He also created a completely new and unique world and a completely new and unique history. This is nothing at all like some hack thinking he can write another story about Bilbo Baggins, the hobbit. Or a book like the "New Adventures of Strider."
"Based on" legends is nothing at all like directly stealing a writer's characters or world. It has NOTHING to do with copyright, this is a red herring. If we're talking about basing stories on someone else's work — just about every "high" fantasy book that has come out since the Lord of the Rings would be "guilty" of that.
And why are "forever copyrights" "counter-productive?" Are you saying that writers SHOULDN'T have the imagination to create their own world's and characters? Isn't that what writers are supposed to do?
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Did you or did you not read a book from Christopher Tolkien? I wasn't talking about his dad.