User blog comment:Gott wisst/Hypothesis about why B. J. is wrong about J. R. R. Tolkien/@comment-1209332-20090423133119

London is a setting. Charles Dicken's ides were not already in existence. I beleive JRRT is an author because he had enough original ideas. My major problem is taking ideas. See, mice and abbeys may be in existence, but was the idea of mice living in an abbey in existence? My rule does not apply to setting. (I hate Twilight because it diverges from normal vampires) It only applys to ideas. CP took ideas, Tolkein took setting and a few ideas. BJ was mostly justified in saying that.