They are quite different just like Tigana is different from say the Troubadour History and ancient French language of Aquitaine southern France that he uses as his basis for the book A song for Arbonne or the Byzantium influenced Sarantine Mosaic books. He wrote it after editing with Christopher Tolkien the Sillmarilion and has said himself that the Fionvar Tapestry was influenced by that experience rather than the LOTR itself , like I said it pleasantly surprised me at the time and yes it is beholden to High Fantasy and it's his first work but I rate it up there with the best work in the Tolkien type fantasy genre, it takes off slowly but each book in the trilogy betters the one before and I recommend it to you.
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