Voodoo, sorry I didn''t mean to be that offensive :/
I just meant that trying to summarize a symbol such as dragons in a line seemed a bit, how would you say, fast ? (this is what I called stupid, not you).
And anyway, my point was to show you that there are some very good authors around, and that they didn''t necessarily copy their stuff on Tolkien. I really really don''t think that Leiber was inspired by Tolkien.
I am still amazed, though, at how much reaction the writings of Tolkien can provoke. When I see flamewars about some guy saying something about Tolkien, and getting mailbombed by fanatics
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It reminds me of another Holy book
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Anyway, if you are eve worried of being accused of copying Tolkien, just remember the saying : "Copying from one author is called plagiarism; copying from several is called research"
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youpla :-P
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