User blog comment:Gott wisst/Hypothesis about why B. J. is wrong about J. R. R. Tolkien/@comment-1209332-20090405051301

By "plunder", I think BJ meant how Tolkein's book ideas were not very original. Just like Christopher Paloni's Inheritance cycle was based of the Star Wars type of story, Tolkein's books were a little more than inspired by Norse and European mythos. Shakespeare did it too with Hamlet, it's a common practice. Originality is hard to come by when almost everything has been done.