User blog comment:Hawbz/All dwarves accounted for/@comment-2006360-20120113173000/@comment-1728211-20120115114803

Terrible, isn't it? Then again, I've heard the "LOTR rip-off" line being used about the books of Clark Smith and Poul Anderson, both of whom were prominent fantasy authors before the Lord of the Rings was published, in Smith's case before The Hobbit was published. So it goes, eh?