[net.sf-lovers] Names of Fantasy Characters

ddw@cornell.UUCP (07/08/83)

From: ddw (David Wright)
To: net-sf-lovers

Greg Skinner should note that the similarity between names in Tolkein
and in that odious hack work "The Sword of Shannara" is probably not
accidental.  Let's face it:  TSoS is a bare-faced ripoff of Tolkein
and so stealing a few names is all of a piece with the rest.

As for the similarity between Berek Halfhand and Beren One-Hand, well,
let's be charitable.  The Thomas Covenant stuff is pretty far from Tolkein
and I think we can forgive Donaldson an occasional sin.

                                 David Wright

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crc@clyde.UUCP (07/08/83)

Tolkien got many for his names from the "Elder Edda" and other Nordic & English
sources. Try reading Lin Carter's "A Look Behind The Lord Of The Rings" (1972).
/crc