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Jan 8, 2023 · Warning: Spoilers for Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time novels Before the debut of the Prime Video series, Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson's epically long Wheel of Time novels found life in 1990 (and like many high fantasy books, seemed to bear influences from JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings). Considering how the 2021 series is faithfully adapts the novels, it is not surprising to find ...
- Staff Writer
Oct 20, 2008 · RJ started off the series with a bit of lotr element to it to give the readers familiar starting ground. Later after the readers were hooked, he started to move away from the lotr(i would say as early as book 3/4), although he put certain references to lotr in the later books (like the fact that rand' favorite book is the "the ring" or the how one of the asha'man calls himself "mr.underhill".
- read all 3 eragon books recently and the guy clearly read RJ and JRR Tolkein, RJ expanded off tolkien but that guy pretty much took characters and...
- OMG i totally agree with you there. i hate CP for that. he even took the names from lotr and used them in his book......wtf and for rohan i woulnd'...
- For inheritance Paolini copied of everybody, Tolkien, Lucas, Brooks, RJ and many others; yes I noticed the roran/perrin thing too. Most authors may...
- Nice, an Eragon bashing! I *hate* Eragon because the plots of the books are exactly Star Wars and the setting is pretty much an LOTR/WOT hybrid. Wh...
- I believe that RJ said in one of his interviews that he designed Eye Of The World stylistically to feel like Fellowship Of The Ring. For familiarit...
- Perrin= Merry combined with Pippin In he Great Hunt they stayed at an Inn called The Nine Rings.
- And Karldin went by the name "Mr. Underhill" in one of the later books (WH?). RJ had a few little homages to Tolkien in there. Btw, Perrin is an ac...
- I hear ya, I just thought it was interesting the way that worked.
- Peregrine is also a species of falcon. Faile :P Moiraine came off as a Gandalf like character for the first two books. Different order of events, b...
- green man = ents ogier = kinda ents
Sep 5, 2021 · The Wheel of Time is based on a lengthy series of high fantasy books by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson, first published in the 1990s. Although influences from J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth are evident, the world that the series takes place in also has major differences. There are no Elves or Dwarves, and the human societies are still ...
- Mira Jacobs
Oct 11, 2023 · In its second season, the Amazon fantasy series Wheel of Time, based on the unending Robert Jordan novels that start out like a Lord of the Rings rip-off, is a TV series that has figured itself ...
- Kathryn Vanarendonk
- Critic
The Wheel of Time is an American fantasy television series developed by Rafe Judkins for Amazon Prime Video. The series is based on the book series of the same name by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson. The first season, consisting of eight episodes, premiered on Prime Video on November 19, 2021, with the first three episodes released ...
Sep 16, 2023 · That was Amazon’s best Nielsen performance to date and compares well with the streamer’s next fantasy epic, “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,” which pulled in 1.25 billion ...
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Nov 19, 2021 · The Wheel of Time review: Flat-pack fantasy fills time before Lord of the Rings returns. Gather round the fire, travelers, for I must weave a tale of another age: an age of rings and thrones ...
