IP Law might've gotten a bit out of date after a thousand years of tyrannical dick-rule.
[Flipping over the casing, looking for a mention of Tolkien. Or maybe JRR Vulcan.]
[And don't be ridiculous, he'd start with 'Sense and Sensability and Seamonters' or 'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter'.]
Might be parallel development, too. Someone on some planet that's never even heard of Frodo Baggins gets an idea about how tiny ordinary people can change the world, puts it to paper, that's the version that takes off in this reality. Then hundreds of years later some alien finds the Earth version and writes a college thesis about the universality of narrative themes across separate cultures or something.Sorta like how a whole bunch of places on Earth all have pyramids, only with elves and riddle contests.
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[Flipping over the casing, looking for a mention of Tolkien. Or maybe JRR Vulcan.]
[And don't be ridiculous, he'd start with 'Sense and Sensability and Seamonters' or 'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter'.]
Might be parallel development, too. Someone on some planet that's never even heard of Frodo Baggins gets an idea about how tiny ordinary people can change the world, puts it to paper, that's the version that takes off in this reality. Then hundreds of years later some alien finds the Earth version and writes a college thesis about the universality of narrative themes across separate cultures or something.Sorta like how a whole bunch of places on Earth all have pyramids, only with elves and riddle contests.