Jordan lifts from everybody, but there's a lot of Tolkien-stealing, yeah. (As other have said, less so than a lot of high fantasy books. But nonetheless, yeah. There are some very strong elements that show that... we will go with the polite version and say Tolkien was clearly a strong influence on Jordan's writing.)
Less so in later books, though, I think. As the series develops into its own creature, and becomes more embroiled in its own plots and less in the Generic Fantasy Epic structure. Though it's always a mix of the two, of course.
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Date: 2007-03-16 09:02 pm (UTC)Less so in later books, though, I think. As the series develops into its own creature, and becomes more embroiled in its own plots and less in the Generic Fantasy Epic structure. Though it's always a mix of the two, of course.