![]() ![]() There is a fair bit of this book that was clearly influenced by Tolkien, but there’s much more of it that seemed familiar because I’ve read it in more recent books. They created these tropes in the first place they made them fashionable, and it’s only now that they’ve become, to varying extents, cliched. When, in fact, these guys wrote about this stuff before everyone else did. This means that when I read a book like Pawn of Prophecy, I can’t help but read certain parts of the story (such as a huge man who transforms into a bear, a farmboy torn away from his home and forced into an adventure, a mysterious magical object, and a wise old man who is more than he first appears) and think ‘oh, dear, how derivative’. The reason for this is probably my age: I’ve (more or less) become familiar with the genre by reading ‘modern’ fantasy, which is influenced heavily by the likes of Tolkien, and Gemmell, and Eddings, and the like. I have to start by admitting that I struggle a little when reading ‘classic’ fantasy. ![]()
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