I don't like Harry Potter

wow, listen to all of you.. you've read the books which makes you think you're the authority. its the same as admitting that the film is spectacular, but didnt capture the depth of the books! 🙄

the flm is great but it didnt catch the greatness of the books

im only saying you do not have the right to call lotr shallow if you have not read the books, its a well known fact the films can NEVER be as good as the books

the lotr book and HP books are both masterpieces. though there are ALOT of similarities, however I don't think that JKR INTENDED for things to be so similiar.

Yes, I would agree that most fantasy/adventure books are based on LOTR. And the movies are just AWESOME.........the HP movies are on the shallow side....they could have been ALOT better than they actually were. The books are great though.

Trickster: Yes Tom Bombil(sp) his char. rocked! 🙂 Don't mess with him!

my point exactly✅✅
there's only so much you can do in films✅

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this is tiring.. i'm just gonna say this to whoever started this thread - I DONT LIKE LORD OF THE RINGS - but i'm not opening a thread saying that in the LOTR boards.

i rest my case Phoenix! 😗

yeah you dont like lotr fair enough thats a shame, really is 🙁

but you cant say its shallow just from the films, you HAVE to read the books too before you critisize

it's no use tryin to change their minds - people are usually very stubborn abt their own opinions✅

hmm whats a book?

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lol

What's Harry Potter about?

wizards/magic

I don't like HP either...JK based some of her stuff after actually witch practices...and frankly, I have no desire to read any of that (though I have read the first one, but only for a debate, and I didn't like it) They're not even written well!! Why people like them I reallydon't know...the kids aren't even good examples...LOTR written better, has more thought put into it (the books mind you), and is just over all better....think about it, it's been around for about 30 years...somehow I doubt HP will last that long, I mean, look at Pokemon....it was this huge thing for about 2 years, and then it totally died...can't wait till that happens with HP...but frankly, it won't happen with LOTR, because it's a classic! Ah, feels good to say that 🙂

Yeah, but at least you've read em both! 😛

Please, of course that Harry Potter is NOT A COPY OF LOTR!!! the fact is they are both BRITISH FICTION as a matter of fact in many fan fics. from Great Britain is usual to have got similar characters, like wizards, elphes, trolls....etc.
Both movies are distinctive from one another, there are no comparrasing between to say that are copies of one another.

so your trying to tell me dementors arent based on nazgul...or aragog on shelob

of course she copied, she copied loads, serioulsy i like the potter books ok they are worth a read but anyone who says its better/ in the same league as lotr is clinically insane and should be locked in a padded room, the lotr books are better so are the films, get over it, god just cos hp is the new book on the scene you all say its going to challenge lotr...erm no...remember pokemon oohh this is going to challenge the simpsons, and now it utterly DIED as will hp die beofre lotr

Tolkiens books are the inspiration of alot of fatasy-fiction books and movies i think it would be pretty damn hard not to slightly copy lotr. 👽

Originally posted by chica16
i think a lot of things in it are copied from LOTR... like that retarded dobby creature... the spiders... the trolls...

This is very immature of you to just flow into the HP thread and say something like that. They're both respectable books and movies. I'm a major fan of LotR but I'm also a fan of HP too.

Rowling herself based many of her material from Tolkien's great writing, which does not mean she copied. She is a well respected writers and I think that all her books and works should be respected as we respect LotR and Tolkien.

If you do not likee HP than DON'T come into this thread. You don't see HP fans come into them LotR thread saying things like this, so DON'T do it to them.

This thread will be closed in a few days.

Originally posted by sauron
so your trying to tell me dementors arent based on nazgul...or aragog on shelob

of course she copied, she copied loads, serioulsy i like the potter books ok they are worth a read but anyone who says its better/ in the same league as lotr is clinically insane and should be locked in a padded room, the lotr books are better so are the films, get over it, god just cos hp is the new book on the scene you all say its going to challenge lotr...erm no...remember pokemon oohh this is going to challenge the simpsons, and now it utterly DIED as will hp die beofre lotr

Dangit guys, give them their rights! Good lord, you cannot just come in here and just bash HP like that, Rowlings did NOT copy do you hear me? She based her material on Tolkien's inventions, BASED AND COPIED ARE TWO DIFFERENT TERMS. Learn them, and grow up.