When someone writes something dazzlingly brilliant, people want to imitate it. The result is a lot of less-than-brilliant knock-offs. Elves, Dwarves, Goblin army, cursed ring, evil sorcerer. Tolkien did it. It rocked. Let's move on. Let's do something new.
![When someone writes something dazzlingly brilliant, people want to imitate it. The result is a lot of less-than-brilliant knock-offs. Elves, Dwarves, Goblin army, cursed ring, evil sorcerer. Tolkien did it. It rocked.](http://cdn.quoteddaily.com/images/patrick-rothfuss/when-someone-writes-something-dazzlingly-brilliant-people-want-to-imitate-it-the-result-is-a-lot-of-less-than-brilliant.jpg)