> Is there even a shadow of truth in this allegation? I certainly don't see it. Rings of Power is set as a distant prequel to Lord of the Rings; Polychron's no

> Is there even a shadow of truth in this allegation? I certainly don't see it. Rings of Power is set as a distant prequel to Lord of the Rings; Polychron's novel was an immediate sequel. There are necessarily some characters and other elements of the setting which appear in both, but that's because they're both derivative works of Tolkien's writings, not because one is derivative of the other. Here's the specific list of similarities claimed by Polychron. To my eye, most of them are either trivial (e.g. a woman rides a horse, a character is dark-skinned, someone says "this is a map", someone makes a heroic last stand), or involve the shared usage of elements from Tolkien's work (e.g. the doors of Khazad-dûm, orcs as corrupted elves, a character is named Théoden). https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.881511/gov.uscourts.cacd.881511.1.2.pdf https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.88...