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Originally Posted by Douglas Rhodes
On the other hand, Terry Brooks is constantly accused of ripping off LOTR, but his books are great.
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Terry's actually gone on record (See: On Writing) and admitted that his Sword of Shannara was an obvious tribute to Lord of the Rings. He wrote the original as an outlet for the stresses of practicing law. And he was pretty darn shocked that Lester Del Ray even published it, if I recall correctly
