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Originally posted by SpiritWarrior:
I recently read the "Dragonlance legends" trilogy, six years after reading the "Chronicles" (I know, I started backward).
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Chronicles are before Legends that's not backward, though I suspect you changed them as you're talking about chronicles down.
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It was only after finishing the series that something else began to nag at me, a strange familiarity I couldn't quite put my finger on while I was reading the trilogy dawned on me: This series, the storyline, the events told suspiciously like The Lord of the Rings. Is it me or has anyone else noticed this? Before people start demanding why, let's look at the undisputable similarities:
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I have a collector's edition and on the back of it it says 'Finally something to read after the rings.' That's where I thought about it. And I found it's definitely familiair and it might even be that without LotR there would be no DL as we know it.
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Dragons = Nazgul, same terror, same stuff.
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There's a IMO large difference between the different series on this comparison. While in LotR the Nazgul are only few in number and undead evil humans, in Dl there are lots of dragons and the large difference, which makes them IMO not comarable there are good dragons as well.
I actually like DL more as there is another difference and you can see it in the book-a-minute reviews
The LotR:
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Gandalf: Bilbo Baggins, your Ring is evil. In a couple decades, we'll try to destroy it. In the meantime, leave it for Frodo to play with.
Bilbo Baggins: It's not evil. It's mine. My precious. Mine! MINE, I TELL YOU!! MOOHOOHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
(Frodo takes it to RIVENDELL. Some FRIENDS come with him. They are attacked by black riders a LOT, and it is SCARY.)
Elrond: Frodo Baggins, if Sauron ever gets this Ring, the world will be destroyed, and evil will reign forever. We must act quickly. Take the Ring to where he lives.
(They do some travelling. Some more FRIENDS come with him. Gandalf DIES in the mines of Moria, but will later be RESURRECTED in GLORIFIED form having triumphed over EVIL, an obvious literary ALLUSION to that movie where the guy comes back as a DOG.)
Boromir :Frodo Baggins, give me the Ring.
Frodo : No.
Boromir: What have I done? (dies)
THE END
(Gandalf frees THEODEN and overthrows SARUMAN. A bunch of IRRELEVANT stuff happens. Then the PLOT starts up again.)
THE END
Aragorn: We must travel the Paths of the Dead.
Eowyn: You'll die. (They don't.)
Gandalf: The Hordes of Mordor will destroy Minis Tirith.(They don't.)
Gandalf: We must attack Mordor. We'll all be killed.(They aren't.)
Gollum: Mmmm, yummy finger! (dies)
Frodo: The Ring has been destroyed, but now we will die in Mordor.
Sam: Buck up, Master Frodo.
(A bunch of feathered DEUS EX MACHINAS come out of NOWHERE and save EVERYBODY.)
THE END
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DL:
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Tanis:I am a half-elf, tortured by my half-elven, half-human nature.
Flint:I am a dwarf. I am dour and grumpy but secretly loving and tender.
Sturm:I am a knight. I exist so I may die with honor and make everyone sad.
Caramon:I am a doofus warrior. I exist solely to give Raistlin someone to insult.
Raistlin:I am an ultra-smart wizard, but I'm secretly evil. Har har har. Caramon, you're a doofus.
Tasslehoff:I am a Kender. I'm here for comic relief.
Tanis:We are together again after five years of separation. Let's go do all the important stuff in the war that's about to happen, rise to amazingly high levels in our AD&D® character classes, and become heroes.
(They do, and the reader hears DICE rolling in the background.)
THE END
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The DL characters have lots more personality shown in the books. They all have different ways to solve situations while in the LotR there's a more race cliché, I'm not saying it doesn't happen but a lot less than in DL.
Sometimes I found LotR boring (hides behind the couch [img]tongue.gif[/img] ) compared to DL cause when there is a boring part in DL the characters make it fun to read while in LotR there is barely such a thing.
[ 01-02-2004, 04:37 AM: Message edited by: philip ]