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Similarities and one hell of a difference (startrek.website)

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Christopher Paolini, the author of Eragon, mentioned that he based the personality of the dragon in his book off of his cat. Makes sense.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I guess he had to steal it from somewhere. Nothing else in that series was original.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Even Tolkien wasn't original. His mythos is the polyamorous lovechild of Suomi, Germanic, Celtic, and Christian mythology.

And everyone bases characters on people they know.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Yep that's how inspiration works, honestly it's not really worth giving credit to the "inspiration is stealing" arguments as all of them are bad faith.