Oh, because it sells it is the "source" of such stuff??
He ripped off Nordic myth, myth that has existed for hundreds of years before Tolkien stalwarts want to claim it as "his"
They can all GTFO as far as I am concerned, he is as much a "plagerist" as those who used his idea's as a template.
He created a unique synthesis of Nordic myth and fantasy, and he was a brilliant writer with a fantasitic vision, but to claim it was "his" is the deluded ravings of people who don't know where stories come from, and I will not entertain their ignorance. He used an idea, and people who followed him used an idea as well. If using an Idea to craft your own story must be "unique", we have not had any advances in storytelling for thousands of years.
Tolkien was a visionary, his "purist" followers are damn sheep.
In the books of his/Christopher's editing- among other things it is shown that 'Orc' comes from the old English "Orkon" which means demon. So while Tolkien uses names and designations from archaic real life languages-the other writers are using Tolkien's stuff-so if he would have never used Orc from Orkon, the others would not have this to 'borrow'. Additionally, for reasons of his quirkiness with language, he refused to us "elf" and used "elven/elves" instead-however inconvenient it may had been for his editors.
So everyone else is just too stupid to look at where he got his Idea's from??
And all of the books on the list or others MAY WELL BE good books on their own, but do they have to make then so obviously 'akin' to Tolkien's works? Why not use a different nomenclature for their creatures/beings?
TOLKIEN WAS, AND IS A MYTHOLOGY THIEF, A PLAGERIST OF THE FIRST ORDER!!!
For his fans to complain is beyond pathetic. He used existing idea's and put his own spin on them, just like all the authors that people try to compare Tolkien to the grandfather of fantasy try to do. Quite frankly they Can GTFO, or deliver nods to Nordic myth, or Greeco-Roman myth, or Egyptiaian myth, or Sumarian Myth. They told these stories first, and to claim that some dickhead English professor made them up first is a damn INSULT to the source material he ripped off.
Alternatively
Instead of the piss poor ignorant rage, we can accept that stories have commonalities, which is why Beowulf, Marduk, The Oddesy/Illiad, the writings of Shakespeare still are just as relavent today as when they were first penned.[/quote]
