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Originally Posted by Lost Ranger  Exactly!
Take LoTR and spend a few hours on it changing names/locations and add a few plot changes and youll have a damn awesome trilogy on your hands. Doesnt make you an author. |
Worked for Terry Brooks for the first Sword of Shannara books. Plagirism is good stuff.
I won't touch Eragon -- I had my fell of generic fantasy back when I was a teenager -- you can only read so much of it and then you start limiting yourself to the good stuff. It's like food -- hot dogs and beer are great and all, but after a while you really just want a nice steak with a glass of wine or some tasty sushi with sake or a good phad thai with what ever the hell they drink in Thailand. Once you start reading only good stuff its impossible to read the bad anymore.
That being said, George Lucas is no slouch when it comes to plagarism either -- his horrible fantasy movie was (like Brooks) pretty much a ripoff of Tolkien with a few other elements mixed in. And of course the original X-Wing and Tie Fighter "dog-fight" scenes in Star Wars were copied directly from old WWII movies. Somewhere I have a video that was supposed to go on the Star Wars collection DVD that directly compared the old WWII films Lucas used and the action -- they were identical. Lucas cut this particular video from the DVD.