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The Lord of the Rings influenced La quête d'Ewilan (Ewilan's Quest)
Added by Media Influence Map · 18 September 2026
The influence
The Lord of the Rings
Book · 1954
The work it shaped
La quête d'Ewilan Ewilan's Quest
Book · 2003
The evidence
This is by far the most explicitly acknowledged influence. Bottero described his adolescent discovery of Tolkien as a decisive encounter, and "Sur les traces d’Ewilan", a Rageot publication about the series, explicitly notes that La Quête d’Ewilan borrows substantially from Tolkien.
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