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Re: Harry Potter?
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lugnet.castle
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Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:06:00 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Richard Marchetti writes:
> Bruce writes:
> > > Sword of Shanara
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> Richard writes:
> > To what, more precisely, are you alluding to?
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> -- Hop-Frog
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!
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 22-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle)
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle)
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