.... I'm going to assume your making a very dry sarcastic remark there, as I've totally fired a .45

I could hear the Star Trek alert noises immediately upon reading that. Well done.

All I could think of was a kidnapping...

No actually that's just how I communicate, are you currently attacking me??? I feel it, even if you don't. and I was stating pretty pure facts there Bub. I was relating my personal opinion regarding not just this but all bandwagon auctioning and pointing out, that the original 'attack on Jim for not caring was backed by real fan's knowing that's not what's going.
I wish this forum didn't have people trying to make mountains out of molehills, something I think you and the Op have in common here now.

You mean like him saying Mirror Mirror is from an episode of Star Trek that has the same exact title?  Like I said before, if you put your own spin on something you aren't violating a copyright issue.

Almost every story ever written is based on some story the author has read or heard about.  There hasn't been a truly original story in probably thousands of years.

Actually, if Star Trek wanted to push, they might be able to stir up trouble, however the name itself isn't copywrite. Also why Jim has avoided quite a few DnD monsters despite most being under an open umbrella because one group could later claim rights if they so choose. Now if They could viably prove Jim was taking from their revenue/base by putting out something of the exact same nature then yea, Look at fortnite being sued by PubG, they aren't the same, but that one little aspect was Battle royale enough to force Fortnite to shut down soon.
Star trek being sci-fi and a show it's kinda hard to say any such thing, but a book on fantasy where in Merlin archetypes are prevalent? Yea.... absolutely. Ya'll seem to forget this is America and they can choose to sue over the slightest provocation regardless of an assured victory. You seem to forget the guy who patented the motor vehicle and waited 20 years until they were being produced to press the patent, which caused ever single competitor to fold and give royalties except Henry Ford whose work helped overturn said patent.... After a lengthy legal battle that would in our case, basically kill the DF.

*compare it to mythology, compare it to works already in the public domain like Shakespeare. Stop saying it's a rip off of protected works before someone decides to take it seriously in the wrong way.

Na, but I bet when he summons Harry he has to look in a mirror in order to pull his duplicate from another realm. So it's likely a mirror.... it'd be Crazy if a mirror was looked into in each of those books at that point in time in our timeline, I know he has to use mirrors even if not to look directly at himself.

Yep, yep and yep.

I mean his last novel (Aeronauts Windlass) was published Sep 2015. 3-4 years between books is about average for most Authors; Jim has just been well ahead of the curve until now.

He had youthful vigor and an idea well thought ahead to go from, of course he could pump them out faster. I'm not really sure how old he is, but i'm thirty and i'm feeling it already so...