
Originally Posted by
Galendir
Squatch, I'm unfamiliar with anything remotely similar to this in any of Tolkien, but I've only read the Hobbit and part of the Silmarillion. (I've had the full set of Lord of the Rings since junior high and have never yet read it. Shameful, I know.) Could you provide a more specific reference to to the material you think this plagiarizes?
I was being somewhat facetious, sometimes the jokes fall a bit flat on the internet sorry. I meant to play off the phrase "But not all that glitters is gold..." which is similar to Tolkein's poem:
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be the blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_th...es_not_glitter
[Though to be appropriately critical of myself, I didn't realize the phrase originated with (or before) Aesop.]
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