I don't like Harry Potter

In this day and age it is very rare to find something that is totally original and is not based on a already laid out platform. Tolkien laid out the platform of good vs. evil on the biggest table of all time. He is the master of it. I think that it is a credit to his work that other wonderful authors ( I really like Rowling and think she is a wonderful author) are basing there theories around ones he wrote long ago. I think that basing a book on something is great but to say that she ripped of or copied somehting is wrong. I can see the similairity between the books but more so in the HP movies. I think that LOTR is a completly diff. story and while HP might have barrowed idea's they did not copy them. does that make any sense or am i just talking a circle.

Complete Sense Aurora, and I hope our lectures went through their big heads

Hum Kit I do think that they should listen to us. We are smart you know!

Oh yeah! *high fives Aurora*

*highfives back* woohoo

i love the lotr books and films wheras with harry potter the books are good (just underneath lotrs) but the films are crap!

and i heard a rumpour from 'member' dat jk rowling woz on drugs but i meself cant see that

I really enjoied the movies, I didn't read the HP at first because I thought that they were children's books. After watching the first movie I decided to read the books and I really loved them. The movies are great, although I wish they would put more of the books into the movies, but I guess they can't all be as long as the LOTR movies are.

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...

Alright, first of all...

Spiders had existed before Tolkien, in fact, giant spiders were well featured in Germanic fables.

Trolls were scantily found in Celtic stories, but featured predominantly in Stories from the Middle Ages.

Gollum was originally (in the first Hobbit, not the re-edited one) based of the Slavonic "Leshy", both in appearence and behaviour.

In fact, Tolkien didn't make up any of the Human names.

Originally posted by Kitoky
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 [B]based her material on Tolkien's inventions, BASED AND COPIED ARE TWO DIFFERENT TERMS. Learn them, and grow up. [/B]

i have grown up, im quite tall il have you know

kit did you even read the previous pages......i started off sayin hp was quite good i just didnt like the movies, then someone started saying lotr is shallow and hp is deep which i disagreed with, he then proceeded to say he hasnt read the books, which angers me slightyly....them someone else comes along and starts bashing lotr aswell, i mean come on im not stening for that......plus its an argument, i HAVE to be involved 😛

I think that they are both imaginative books for two different kinds of audience - and I love them both!

Anyway, if they are so similar, then why the hige divide?

well

you may remember that to preven a war in 1918 europe split into two major halves, therfore there couldnt be a war, unfortunatly that plan was bollocks, all it needed was a small pebble to fall and it would cause an avanche, in other words one small misunderstanig boom ww1

we are quite peaceful at times, but all we need is one lotr member to say something bad about hp, or vice versa and boom argument breaks out

Originally posted by sauron
i have grown up, im quite tall il have you know

kit did you even read the previous pages......i started off sayin hp was quite good i just didnt like the movies, then someone started saying lotr is shallow and hp is deep which i disagreed with, he then proceeded to say he hasnt read the books, which angers me slightyly....them someone else comes along and starts bashing lotr aswell, i mean come on im not stening for that......plus its an argument, i HAVE to be involved 😛

Ohhh I seem, I'm sowwy sauron,

its ok, even though you made me DIE ! 🙁

I wanted the thread to die, not you, silly sauron

I would have been more amused if it was Frodo who fell into that pit with the ring instead of gollum!

Once again, pathetically PREDICTABLE!

Sauron: I got it, let's distract the eye!

Gandalf: Oh yeah, why didnt I think of that! Awesome plan dude!

Legolas: Yeah, and i'll perform my amazing archery skills, that'l get him!

*Gandalf does the air-guitar - Legolas & Sauron joins in* 😆

very impressive guys! clap-clap-clap!!!
oh hail, high halleluiahs for LOTR woohoo!!! <-- critical acclaim

Notice that Legolas came out of the battle without a speck of dirt in his face? yeah, very realistic guys!

LOTR franchise: Orlando Bloom should always look pretty & air-brushed or the fans will get mad..

oh yeah, this movie is pure perfection - bravo guys!

That wont stop the Academy from giving the Best Picture award to LOTR-ROTK --> coz the critics says so! 🙄

sorry guys, but with no codes to break, no mysteries to unravel, no clues and hints to discover -- everything in LOTR is served on a silver platter & spoon-fed to the audience -- i find it rather shallow indeed -- not to mention BORING! 😈

well, you were asking for it.. Christina Aguilera says "if you can dish it out, you gotta learn to take it back!" 💃

Argh......I tried I honestly did! But they just won't GROW up dammit!

I understnad if you're upset about chica just comin' in a voicing out that HP is stupid but can't ANYONE be mature and ignore this childish act!?

My god...

I think that LOTR is a completly diff.

Exactly! You cannot class them in the same catagory because they are two completely different books despite the fact that they are both fantasy. JK Rowling has based her writings on a lot of mythology, Greek and otherwise. Additionally Tolkien is not the first person to come up with trolls and I seriously doubt that he'll be the last. JK's books are wonderful and imaginative. She created an entire world based on magic; even the games are magic e.g. Quidditich. Sure OotP was a bit repetitive of the previous four but it was still well done in my opinion. Both the LOTR and HP books are great in their own rights. I thoroughly enjoy reading HP and personally I can't wait for the PoA movie which is my favourite of all the books thus far.

I understand if you're upset about chica just comin' in a voicing out that HP is stupid but can't ANYONE be mature and ignore this childish act!?

Agrees with Kitoky. The fact remains that people have different tastes and people should learn to respect that. Additionally the edit button exists specifically so that you don't have to triple post to get your point across.