| Re: Shannara: what is it about?
dekket, I can understand a person who really enjoyed an authors works to take offense if someone else maligns their work. however my feeling was that it was more than bare outline that there was similarity between sword of Shannara and the Lord of the rings. there were enough differences that he wasn't burned at the stake with his own books. but to my feeling the quest, and the characters were taken from either Tolkiens works or they both took the story from an earlier tale, but the level of congruency between the two is too much for there to be no tie. however once he was published and went to elfstones and beyond, his stories were indelibly his own. |