Drizzt Do Urden discussion

I just finished the Streams of Silver and noticed how sililar mithril hall was to the mines of moria in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Did anyone else notice that too?

Actually iwhen i first read of Mithril Hall i thought he must have based it on Moria but i also thoought about how well he did on actually useing Mithril hall in his books unlike tolkien who only uses it as a labyrinth and doesnt really do anything with it in the series. But yes i noticed it haha.

Actually iwhen i first read of Mithril Hall i thought he must have based it on Moria but i also thoought about how well he did on actually useing Mithril hall in his books unlike tolkien who only uses it as a labyrinth and doesnt really do anything with it in the series. But yes i noticed it haha.

oops sorry my computer doubled it.

yeah. Tolkien was the one who inspired Salvatore to write in the first place so it all makes sense. Crenshinibon is like RAS' version of the ring. Moria and the hall, It all connects really.

Thats very true and i think that pretty much all fantasy writers are inspired to write by him i know i am.

It's true. Most of the authors I've read about were inspired by him. and it makes sense, cause he was the one to start all of it really.

Yea i wish he was still alive i would have loved toget in a conversation.

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I understand that he borrowed the place and setting but almost everything about is the same. When they get their the hall has been taken over by someone. There is also a "balrog" in charge of mithril hall and at the end bruenr rides the beast down a big chasm, just like in The lord od the rings. The one difference is that in LOTR they are passing through, not trying to re-claim it. But thats about it.

Many fantasy authors started their careers paying homage to J.R.R. Tolkien. Salvatore, Terry Brooks, Dennis L. McKiernan, to a lesser degree Raymond E. Feist. It is easy to blame them now for plagiarazing, but one has to keep in mind several things.
1) All these writers loved LotR and wanted to write something similar.
2) Many readers wanted to read something similar to LotR. It happens all the time - now, after "Twilight" there are hundreds of vampire novels, for example.
3) Tolkien focused almost everything on world building. The authors after him managed to create some unique characters, like Drizzt, for example, and to develop the idea of a magical, medieval world.

So for me Salvatore had done nothing wrong.

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