User blog comment:SunflashtheAwesome/Lord of the Rings Similarities/@comment-1427879-20120228152630

Interesting idea. I think it's quite possible that BJ never read JRR Tolkien's work and merely had similarities. The boar the fighter thing is probably simply because a boar is a male badger which is where Boar's name comes from. The similarities between Martin and Aragorn are interesting though.