The creating of 🧝Elves,Drwafs and men

[jetcyrings]

Hi, I wonder if Tokien created all of them.Does anybody read Eragon,the dragondriver written by Christopher Paonili in USA?There's some datails are similar to LOTR.Such as, in this story, there's Elves,Drwafs, men(of course) even dragon!The Elves also came from the sea on their ships (and they may return to it).The drwafs live inside mountains, too.There are even fights between Elves and dragon.Very similar to LOTR!Oh my God,is it the legend of the English literature or it is the creation of Tokien only?
I don't know what to say now........

 

[baragund]

If I understand your question correctly, Tolkien was not the first person to come up with the idea of Elves, Dwarves, dragons and other fantasy-related creatures. They have been knocking around in various European myths and legends for centuries. Tolkien used them as part of his own mythology and he put his own intepretation to them but they were in English legends and folk lore wayyyyyyy before his time.

I'm not familiar with Christopher Paolini's work, but if was written after LOTR was published in 1954-55, then I would suggest that he might have been inspired by Tolkien's Middle-earth. Lots of contemporary fantasy authors have been inspired by Tolkien's writings.

Finally, if you would like to find out about the origin of Elves, Dwarves, Men, dragons and other inhabitants of Middle-earth, you definitely want to get yourself a copy of The Silmarillion. That will tell you most of what you want to know...in the context of Tolkien's mythology.

Hope this helps.

 

[Eledhwen]

I found a sample chapter here, so judge for yourselves. It reminds me of Stephen Donaldson's very derivative Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Unbeliever series (I believe SD's recently written book 9, though the hero died in book 8).

 

[baragund]

Hmmm... Reminds me a quite a bit of the stuff we write in the RPGs both here and over at MERPG. Either Mr. Paolini shouldn't quit his day job or some of us are pretty good!

 

[Flame of Udûn]

The Dwarves live in the Beor Mountains at their capital Farthen-Dûr. It seems original nomenclature is not Paolini's strength.

 

[Eledhwen]

Either Mr. Paolini shouldn't quit his day job or some of us are pretty good!

Some pretty dire authors have been able to quit their day jobs - more's the pity for literature!

 

[Arvegil]

Some years ago, I predicted that the dark side of a successful film production of LOTR would be a horde of lesser derivative films trying to capture the same magic and the same demographic.

An Eragon film is in the works. Mr. Paoilli can safely quit his day job, in all likelihood.