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| | | (...) I barely remember seeing this title once or twice. To what, more precisely, are you alluding to, Bruce? Just curious... -- Hop-Frog (23 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | Re: Harry Potter? —Richard Marchetti
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| | | | | (...) Richard writes: (...) Ah, I see -- the Lord of the Rings, right? Since I haven't read either series I would be interested in the kinds of similarities that appear to exist in both works. Just for extra fun, in what ways does the Lord of the (...) (23 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | Re: Harry Potter? —James Simpson
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| | | | | | | (...) O' Mighty Tolkien! Who can stand in thy counsels? Sword of Shanara? I don't recall that referenc in the Great Books, but I could be wrong. (...) Entirely culturally revelvant. (...) Creativity is one thing...Harry vs. Larry Potter is quite (...) (23 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | Re: Harry Potter? —Andrew Weiner
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| | | | | | (...) well lotr doesn't have that much to do with euro mythology in my eyes, it has dwarves and goblins, and giant animals but thats it mainly oh and dragons, to me it is just a fun story and i hope for the movie to be great! (23 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Harry Potter (um, very loosely) —Mark James
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| | | | | | | For those of you too busy with little bits of plastic to read books, check out this url: (URL) Return of The King is a particular favourite. (23 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Harry Potter? —Aaron West
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| | | | | | (...) A great deal of the alternate reality in LOTR/Tolkien books is based upon his understanding of Norse Mythology. He admitted publicly long ago that it was a prime influence for him, his initial interest was in drawing out mythical maps (from (...) (23 years ago, 22-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | Re: Harry Potter? —Bruce Schlickbernd
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| | | | (...) Terry Brooks' The Sword of Shanara (or the Sword of Sha-na-na, for those of us who like to sneer at it), illustrated by the Brothers Hildebrandt (at the height of their Tolkien-illustrating fame). It is a character-for-character, (...) (23 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle)
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