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Re: Harry Potter?
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lugnet.castle
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Wed, 21 Mar 2001 19:42:08 GMT
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Bruce writes:
> > Sword of Shanara
Richard writes:
> To what, more precisely, are you alluding to?
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 Rings lift from
Northern European mythology? I have heard that it does so quite
extensively. Does that feel like plagarism, or does it feel like an
appropriate mining of culturally relevant archetypes?
I am not exactly going to mount an argument in favor of plagarism, but I
will say that there is nothing new under the sun...especially not with 5
billion fairly creative creatures running around on earth at the present time.
-- Hop-Frog
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle)
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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! (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle)
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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 (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle)
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