Jurgen Wullenwever wrote:Johanna wrote:Not that it is very good
Sounds subjective.
When even the die-hard fans go 'yeah, there's a stretch of five or so books the size of bricks in the middle where everything is soooooooo slooooooooooow', you know something's amiss
And don't get me started on how all men and women think about each other like they do in a bad high school movie...
Jurgen Wullenwever wrote:Johanna wrote:Also, I think Jordan got most of the Tolkien stuff via the Fionavar Tapestry by Guy Gavriel Kay
I never had that impression, but I do not really remember FT apart from details. Guy Kay always had his mutilations in his (other) books, while Jordan had people being broken down inside instead (in WoT, not in Conan).
It's the details that make them that similar.
Evil god imprisoned under a mountain in the north for X thousand years before the start of the series? Check
His name is modelled on 'Satan' and contains the exact letters A A H I N S T? Check - Sathain in the Fionavar Tapestry, Shai'tan in the Wheel of Time.
Seals to that prison in the form of magical stones/glass start to break? Check
A society of female magicians? Check
King Arthur or someone with his name is in that world or part of its history? Check
Parallel worlds that may look very similar but there's something off between them? Check
There were more, this is just off the top of my head and I haven't read either in at least ten years.
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