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Title: Tolkien clone
Review: This book would be very engaging and enjoyable to anyone who has not read the Hobbit or Lord of the Rings, but in that case I would just encourage you to read the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings! This book is an INCREDIBLY blatant mimic of Tolkien's classics, from place and character names to the plot (dwarves enlisting the help of halflings to reclaim an ancestral foretress); even phrasing and narrative techniques are strikingly similar. In places lines are very nearly verbatum, and I am utterly amazed that he was even able to get this printed. Tolkien himself would have been rejected if he tried to publish it, because it's not just similar in style and tone, it's so nearly identical in parts that printing it would be (and is) redundant. I can't believe this guy hasn't been sued!!!
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