From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!utah-cs!utah-gr!thomas Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Title: Re: The Elfstones of Shannara Article-I.D.: utah-gr.551 Posted: Fri Sep 3 13:36:51 1982 Received: Sun Sep 5 03:03:20 1982 References: ucf-cs.767 I thought the first book was a pretty blatant ripoff of Tolkien. Also thought that people walked MUCH too fast. Either that, or the whole place was only about a hundred miles across. =Spencer