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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
That is the price you pay when you create excellence. As a writer you should be honored how you inspire others. Nobody is mistaking The Other Adventures of Strider as anything other than fan fiction. Sure, if you wanted to be petty, you could sue.
It is easy to point a finger and say that all high fantasy today is a copy of Lord Of The Rings (or stealing from it). Hard to argue when there is so much old myth and legend incorporated into it. It is harder to admit that not every high fantasy is stolen from Tolkien, but rather based on some of the same legends. Sure inspired in a way that they wanted to write their own interpretation of the legends. Every King Arthur story, for example, could be considered to be stolen from another one. Or they are all so similar, because they all closely resemble the original legend.
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The lost prince and broken sword were lifted directly from Norse mythology and the story of Sigmund, Sigurd and the sword Gram. Wagner referenced the same legend in his Ring operas. If I recall correctly, Poul Anderson's The Broken Sword came out the same year that Fellowship of the Ring was initially published.