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Originally Posted by Mr Mephisto
I was a bit of a Lord of the Rings freak when I was a kid...It's mostly tripe if truth be told. Very formulaic.
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Ahhh! Blasphemy!
I guess it is, but it set the stage for 90% of the standard fantasy novels that followed it. Not to say that there weren't fantasy novels before LOTR, but most are a derivative, in some way, of it.