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"I imagine that, when The Weirdstone of Brisingamen appeared, with its wizard and its army of dark elves, people who didn't know 'The Legend of Alderley' claimed that you'd copied The Lord of the Rings."
"Which showed that they hadn't read any middle or old English. Tolkien and I ripped off the same sources.
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And with all that they're not very similar anyway. I think people can be a little too quick to call any book with a wizard in it a
Lord of the Rings rip-off.
By the way, though, I was quite startled when I found out a couple of years ago that the 'Legend of Alderley'
wasn't just something Garner had made up; one does get so used to fantasy novels opening with some kind of "legend" or "prophecy".