Quote Originally Posted by landorl View Post
There's something oddly familiar about that world... I just can't put my finger on it...
Well, it is earth... Just what it would look like if several historical events didn't play out in the same way. Such as World Wars I and II, the Japan-Russia wars of the early 1900s, and many of the the brush-fire wars by the gunpowder empires.

Quote Originally Posted by overlordchuck View Post
Just another Middle-earth clone. Everyone copies Tolkien for some reason.


A. That's not very nice.
B. It is not Middle Earth.
C. I really don't understand how you arrived at it being a middle-earth clone. Was it my use of the term 'secondary world', because that's not exclusively Tolkien.
D. Any modern fantasy is inherently Tolkien-esque due to his profound influence on the genre. So even if an author didn't reference Tolkien directly, simply by being in genre, they are copying him.