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From: adam@tucson.princeton.edu (Adam J. Thornton)
Subject: Re: Question about Infocom release dates
Date: 26 Apr 1996 05:26:01 +0000
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In article <wlU4yXO00WB2EyPKxL@andrew.cmu.edu>,
Andrew C. Plotkin <erkyrath+@CMU.EDU> wrote:
>adam@tucson.princeton.edu (Adam J. Thornton) writes:
>> It's much too directly ripped off from Tolkien. 
>I'm gonna issue a general call for proper Usenet documentation... ie,
>be careful to make sure your post makes sense. I had to search
>backward several messages in order to figure out that this comment was
>about _Journey_.

Sorry.  _Journey_.

>Journey certainly ripped off the setting (a world with a bunch of
>races, dwarves, wizards... sigh) and the general plot (honest simple
>country dude leads contentious multiracial party through dangers in
>search of croissants and lox.) It didn't do much *with* those
>elements. Dwarves, dangers, whatever. If it were a book, nobody would
>buy it. (If anyone mentions Terry Brooks I'll break my own arm, ok?)

More than that.  The dwarven mines thing?  The "speak, friend, and enter"
puzzle?  (OK, so you had to read *SPOILER*




















backwards, big deal)?  I guess the worst offense is the whole dwarven
thing, which seemed directly plucked from Moria to me--the tomb of the
Great Dead Dwarf, the orcs, the whole business.

Adam
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