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

hi. again. i am NOT dumb person. and it was SO not a DUMB answer.
anywho. i have a site! it is REALLY cool!.

www.geocities.com/ejlogic

GO! it is cool!

🙂 spam!...that's pretty dumb too
tisk! tisk!...wasting web space around like that

Spam? what spam?

i don't remeber it exactly nut i think it's:
stupid pointless advertising message. (i'm not sure about the stupid pointless part🙂)

basicly..don't advertise in a post. Just write the link or whatever in your siggie and everyone's happy.

Tolkien was trying to make a mythology for England, specifically. VERY specific; he wouldn't even accept British.

i think the elves are german in origin.

Uhh, we could be until the end of time debating the origins of fantasy mythology.

Anyway, I think it is extremely flimsy to try and accuse Rowling of plagiarism on such vague grounds especially as the two works are so fundamentally different. Also not worth criticising her just because she wants to make money. In any case, she brings joy and pleasure to millions and opened up their imaginations and the source of much criticism from the LOTR community is simply because some Tolkien fans are annoyed that anyone could like anyone else more.

Well, they can and do, and Rowling deserves all the praise she gets for achieving that.

Britain, England. basically the same thing. adn dude. my site is way cule. it deserves to be in the post.

Hey u know in iceland. they TOTALLY believe in elves. they won't build over ground where they think elves live. Isn't that COOL!
Anywho. Rowling is just not aware of copyright infringement lawas.

no advertising message deserves that.
Besides....why would you want to make a site that interests noone. Those are just personal data of yours.
Besides..i only took a short glimpse...but is that just HTML code?

Tolkien was rather direct about specifying England and not Britain, as I said.

And yes Rowling DOES know them, and has broken none. Else she would be being sued.

No. u must be using a strange browser. and hey, my site is very interesting. please don't diss it. Personal data?

no matter...back on topic.

She has being sued already. and i LIVE in britain/england. it is BASICALLY the same thing. B-A-S-I-C-A-L-L-Y

It's not the same thing at all, basically or otherwise.

She is not being sued by Tolkien's estate, that I have heard.

Do u live in England?

Cermiestar, this is a British owned site. Most of the most active members live in the UK or nearby. England, Netherlands, Belgium, Norway...

I, on the other hand, am a Californian boy from the USA. That makes me different. And what does it matter if you live in England?

JK is not being sued for anything right now.

Harry Potter is a good book/movie in my opinion. Lord of the Rings is a good book/movie in my opinion. If I was a mod I'd probably close this because it is somewhat pointless and you keep advertising your site, which is what we call spam, btw.

You can put the link with your Hello Kitty! pic if you want.

Cermiestar thinks I cannot know what I am talking about unless I live in England, which is odd to think, but it only takes a glance at my details on the left to see that I do anyway (at least, I imagine most English people would know where Essex is).

As for the topic... obviously spamming is frowned upon, and the poll is a bit pointless, but if people want to talk about how Tolkien has influenced just about all fantasy written since his (and I prefer terms like 'influenced and inspired' as opposed to 'copying and plagiarism) then that is fine. Though no-one should forget how 'influenced' Gandalf was by Merlin... in fact Gandalf pretty much IS Merlin with a different name.

Ok. 1) i will not "spam" anymore. but that is a stupid rule anywho.
2)if u didn't like the topic why did u come in here anyway?
3) this is a british site? that rox. and yes it does matter if u come from england.

adn btw, it is because of u, i quote, "Californian boys from the USA" that JK.Rowling had to change the name of the first harry potter book.
What is wrong with "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone?"
You know they had to film each scene where they mentioned the stone twice. Once with Sorcerer and once with philosopher. That is just dumb.
There is a whole mythology behind the philosopher's stone. why did it have to be changed for the americans anyway?