Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-48285-20140807162517/@comment-4783583-20141121092240

Disagree,  people are just fucking jelly about him making it big with his books in which he barrowed from other people, Guess what every author, every creator barrows from others and yes I did it quite heavily, however there is enough originality there to call it an original series and not plagiarism. There are five kinds of idea/concept/name etc. lending those are:

 1 Stealing stuff                                  Taking stuff and changing it in such a way that you can positively pass it off as your own. Stealing requites originality. The primary premiss is always kept the same.

 2 Barrowing stuff                                             Taking stuff and changing it in such a way that it is your own new original thing the primary premiss of the thing you barrow from is significantly changed.

 5 Homage stuff                                 You refer to somebody else  work in an elaborate and intentional way, like having your characters perform a very famous musical.

 4 Referencing stuff                         Generally just a line or a prop in the background.

 3 Copying stuff                                  You basically copy everything from a story(aspect) and change only the names and places.

When talking about lending Copying is worse Stealing.



Paolini does a bit of copying which is bad, he has a few covert references, no homages, a lot of barrowing and he steals a lot of stuff. But he does not comit outright plagiarism.



JK Rowling has taken as much from Lord of the Rings as Paolini did.

