To: Bloody Sam Roberts; Question_Assumptions
Check out Lurker's guide, JMS was pretty open about drawing heavily from LOTR. His defense was that LOTR is probably the ultimate good vs evil story told in the grand epic scale and he would be a fool not to take lessons from it and would be rude to not pay it the occasional homage.
222 posted on
04/29/2003 2:22:57 PM PDT by
discostu
(A cow don't make ham)
To: discostu
Every comment I've seen by JMS in public showed great annoyance at being told that he was copying anything else. If he's changed his tune, that's fine, but that wasn't what he was claiming while it was being showed.
To: discostu
Oh, I think it's fantastic. B5 stands on it's own merits. LOTR never enjoyed such a grand vision or nearly as many interesting characters.
"Isn't that right Vir?"
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