WC3 IS A RIP-OFF OF LOTR! - Warcraft 3 Forums

Sansui

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NY
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#162006-03-28

Ummm... orcs and every other race tolkien uses came from mythology so he ripped myths off.

Lord Finarfin

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#172006-03-28

Re: Most.Idiotic.Topic.Ever.

BlackArmsShadowNightmare, WARCRAFT IS BASED ON LOTR! - and several other things, such as Dungeons and Dragons and The Chronicles of Narnia. Blizzard wasnt creative enough to make an original idea, so they just combined the main ideas of these different creations, and they made Warcraft.

The Chronicles of Narnia aren't based off LoTR. Tolkein and Lewis(author of the Narnia books) actually knew each other and were friends. They may have swapped some ideas for their respective stories, but one is not based off the other.

olofmoleman

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#182006-03-28

SansuiUmmm... orcs and every other race tolkien uses came from mythology so he ripped myths off.

To my knowledge Tolkien invented Orcs
but he probably got Dwarves, Elfs, Trolls, etc. from ancient viking beliefs, because they believed in all of those.

BlackArmsShadow

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#192006-03-28

Re: Most.Idiotic.Topic.Ever.

Lord FinarfinThe Chronicles of Narnia aren't based off LoTR. Tolkein and Lewis(author of the Narnia books) actually knew each other and were friends. They may have swapped some ideas for their respective stories, but one is not based off the other.

Finarfin, I knew that already - you misread my original comment, BUT... as I said before - Warcraft takes almost all its concepts from previous modern-day mythology creations. Speaking of which, one of you go and e-mail one of the creators of Warcraft and ask them if they in fact took concepts from other things.

DeadDogNoGoWoof

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#202006-03-29

WHO CARES

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Mecheon

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#212006-03-29

Yeah, Warcraft takes its concepts from past mythologies and such

But so do most fantasy related things

ChrisLee162006

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joined 2005-06-11

#222006-03-29

indeed, c. lewis and jrr tolkien were friends, but.. to my knowledge c. lewis made chronicles of narnia BEFORE jrr tolkien made LOTR, he just didnt publish it.. then he got jrr tolkien into writing, then he published LOTR.. and it got so much hype.. c. lewis got over jealous and published chronicles of narnia... yeah and that meens that chronicles of narnia cant be a rip off lotr... if anything is the other way around.. but i doubt that..

Sansui

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NY
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#232006-03-29

In Beowulf, ll: 112, the term Orc-néas, which seems to mean "corpses of Orcus," appears in a list of the various monsters that sprang from the race of Cain. Orcus, in Roman mythology, was an alternative name for Pluto, Hades, or Dis Pater, god of the land of the dead. The name "Orcus" seems to have been given to his evil and punishing side, as the god who tormented evildoers in the afterlife. Like the name Hades (or the Norse Hel, for that matter), "Orcus" could also mean the land of the dead. Tolkien derived his 'Orcs' from a passage in Beowulf.