How GREAT Lord of the Rings is compared to Harry Potter and how it COPIED LOTR.

Ok. I have read PLENTY of fantasy literature. PLENTY. adn sure there are lots of fantasy cliches, but none with so close or so many "simirallities" to lotr as harry potter.

Cermiestar how could you say that star wars is bad?
i know where you live by the way........well not exactly, i know your fone number.......

dude, "smoky" dude i never said it was BAD. Though I don't actually like Star Wars...that is my own OPINION! I am ALLOWED one. right? I just said that Star Wars ripped off Lord of the Rings. Not A LOT. just a bit. and u even said so urself. u and hannah were discusing it while i was trying to watch LOTR.
Oh no. Now i am going to get killed by the millions of Star Wars freaks round the globe.

*retreats to corner and curls up in a ball* 😕

for like the 100th time

I don't do it purposely. And smoky, don't forget YOUR star Wars freakaholic days. I know there are photos SOMEWHERE.

SOMEWHERE!

I wrote this a year ago...

Similarities between Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter.
„h There is a wizard with a pointy hat and a long white beard.
„h Evil guy doesn¡¦t have a body.
„h Hero is a short guy with strange eyes and unfashionably long hair.
„h Hero's wear cloaks as everyday attire.
„h Hero¡¦s parents are both dead.
„h Hero's were both raised by their uncle.
„h Harry and Frodo both have a precious object (Ring / Stone).
„h Frodo and Harry go invisible.
„h They use invisibility to get away from nasty people.
„h They fight a Troll, which gets killed by their companion.
„h Troll has a wooden weapon.
„h Movies are to be continued...
„h Movies were written as books first.
„h Movies came out about the same time (good competition guys).
„h Movies highly reliant on SFX
„h 3 books were written before the movies came out.
„h Check out the similarities between JRR Tolkien and JK Rowling.

Which proves who copied who.Oh yeah, and the similarities between JK Rowling and JRR Tolkien are just that they lived in the same place, were teachers and a few other bits and bobs.

Some of those don't check out.

Which ones? As I said I wrote it a year ago...

Well, there were four HP books before the films, for a start.

Yeah but that dopesn't negate the truth of that statement. Yes JK Rowling had written 4 books in TOTAL, which also means that 3 were written (just not including the 4th).

Yeah but you may as well say they were both written on paper for all the relevance that has for saying they are similar.

Yeah all right, whatever.

well in my opinion, Tolkien inspired many authors and you cant look at a modern fantasy novel without being able to see similarities. Now in saying that all those authors would say that they drew inspiration from tolkien. now with Harry potter i am sure that the author wouldnt deny that there was a tolkien influence, but the sad thing about potter is that it is a more blatent rip off. when certain characters are so similar (even in name) it appears obvious that this has crossed the line of inspiration to rip off. there is just too many things in common. now i know that tolkien drew inspiration from norse legends and even quenya was inspired by an ancient form of finish, but he was trying to create a mythology for Europe so where better to draw from than the legends that already exist. Rowling was trying to create the almighty buck.

That is a better list than mine kiwifrodo! i am dead impressed.

Lle ume quel

I won't even bother to vote in this thread. And not only because i don't fit into any of those options.
I don't especialy like harry potter but i'm really not that bothred with it.
I think it's even good, for kids...and i probably would've loved it 5 years ago.
After submerging into tolkien's world i really don't care how they say lotr is plagiated. Because i KNOW it's not. So why bother to argue..

Because it it FUN!

🙂 that's a dumb answer

🙁 I'm a dumb person🙁

No I'm not. 🙂