[Suzerain of Sheol]

Well, huh. That's, um, wow. And I did read through that blog post, that was... enlightening.

I remember when I was 11 years old, I wrote a fantasy story. It came out sort of like that, with some very heavily "borrowed" elements, including names. But, hey, I was 11. Then I wrote another book when I was 17... still garbage, but I dare say it was more original than that. Didn't see that becoming an international best-seller, though... I like to think I've gotten to somewhere around "decent" nowadays, though I haven't actually finished a novel since that one.

Anyway, that list of names is kind of funny. For a lot of them, it almost looks like he thought "who even reads the appendices to LotR anyway? No one will notice if I steal some names from there." :p

About the mark on the hand, though, I think I'd more or less excuse that. Sure, it isn't terribly original, but from what was described there, it doesn't seem like a flagrant of a plagiarism as the others.