Personally I think the Harry Potter movies/books are way better than the LOTR movies/books, but thats not the discussion in this topic. Does HP borrow from LOTR, probably but I don't know/care enough about LOTR to know for sure. I always thought JKR borrowed more from George Lucas anyways. You have your good wizards like the Jedi and the bad ones like the Sith. Dumbledore is the Yoda of HP and HP is the Luke Skywalker and Voldermort is the Sidious. But thats besides the point, the only original stories are the old Roman/Greek myths and everything else is different variations from those original ideas such as SW, HP, and LOTR. Everybody likes what they like and it shouldn't matter who borrowed from who because everyone borrowed from something else anyways.
It is really unfair to compare them in the first place.
Think about it...harry potter and LOTR are of different generations. Hoe can you compare two things with equally admirable qualities, intended for different age group?
harry Potter is for a younger, more modern age range, whereas LOTR could now be called a classic by all writes.
Stop comparing because they are both good for what they are - AND THEY ARE BOTH BLOODY GREAT!
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http://www.mugglenet.com/parallels.shtml
a lot of storys are a like just look at that page! geez maybe its why we love these stories so much is because they are a like, but diffrent at the same time. so get over it -_-
How ignorant do you have to be to start threads like this one? Isn't it obvious even to the most half-witted individual that everything in literature is a copy of something that has been done before? Where else could author's get inspiration? Space? Tolkien very ostensibly copied the story of Beowulf and Andvari's Ring (amongst others) in his Middle Earth stories. Both the Dementors AND the Ringwraiths are derived from the Grim Reaper which has been used countles times in Western Literature.
Ok, I said this once and I'm going to repeat it: Demetros, Elfs, Orcs and stuff like belong to mythology, neither to Jk nor to Tolkin! I'm fed up of people coming to this forum saying that LOTR is better that HP, cause ITS NOT!!!!!! If u don't think so stay at LOTR forum, for Melin's sake ! This HP Forum and JK here rules!
HP 's got a dimension that LOTR doesn't have it ! Its the modern time, it takes place NOW ! While for LOTR we don't know the time, location! HP 's got a paralel dimesion!
So stay at LOTR forum, its got a plenty of place! Have some one from here come there bit.... about HP????