[lolinder]

> Tolkien-rip off fantasy

You're free to dislike the books, but this is an extremely unfair characterization. Sanderson's books bear very little resemblance to Tolkien's beyond the genre and the elaborate nature of the worldbuilding.

[edgyquant]

It’s not unfair. The genre he writes is a genre of Tolkien ripoffs of which he is the most prolific.

[space_fountain]

There are Tolkien rip offs, but Tolkien didn’t invent fantasy, and unlike a lot of fantasy authors Sanderson doesn’t include elements like dwarfs, or elves or really anything that Tolkien came up with as far as I can tell. Are you maybe confusing him with someone else?

[lolinder]

If you're including Game of Thrones and Wheel of Time, then I guess Sanderson broadly falls into that same category. I'd hardly label any of them "rip-offs", though, especially given that there are books out there blatantly ripping off Tolkien right down to elves, dwarves and halflings.

[bradly]

I’ve only read the Mistborn series, but I didn’t find it all similar to Tolkien–not in style or themes.

[justinpombrio]

By "Tolkien ripoff", do you mean anything beyond "fantasy novel"?