Tolkien--Inspirations and Inspired - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Celebuial · 05-10-2005, 04:41 AM

Essex has a good point with Harry Potter, what about all that He Who Must Not Be Named, giant spiders, Dumbledore/Gandalf wannabe, and it goes ever on...

Stephen Donaldson did exactly the same thing in The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant ( he even went as far as to have a Berek half-hand!). Have a look at these:

http://www.stephenrdonaldson.com/

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/au..._Donaldson.htm

http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/farp/myths/myth.html

http://www.authorsontheweb.com/featu...influences.asp

I hope some of that was helpfull. I'm sure there's another thread similar to this one......Can't find it though, sorry.
http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showthr...son#post382865 Look at post #446 that might help too.

05-10-2005, 04:41 AM	#4
Celebuial Wight Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Cardiff during term time/Leicester in the holl's Posts: 129	Essex has a good point with Harry Potter, what about all that He Who Must Not Be Named, giant spiders, Dumbledore/Gandalf wannabe, and it goes ever on... Stephen Donaldson did exactly the same thing in The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant ( he even went as far as to have a Berek half-hand!). Have a look at these: http://www.stephenrdonaldson.com/ http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/au..._Donaldson.htm http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/farp/myths/myth.html http://www.authorsontheweb.com/featu...influences.asp I hope some of that was helpfull. I'm sure there's another thread similar to this one......Can't find it though, sorry. http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showthr...son#post382865 Look at post #446 that might help too. __________________ Ú cilith ‘war. Ú men ‘war. Boe min mebi. Boe min bango.