do you find some thing common in hp and...?

Question

dont you think there is someting coomon between lord of the rings and harry potter
dementors in harry potter and same kind of creatures in lord of the rings only differnce is that they come on horses.

the dark lord in lord of the rings is named as him-who should-ot-be-named and in hp it is he-who-must-not be named

Answer 1

They may have minor details in common, but really they are two different stories, yes they deal with a protagonist on a quest to Trump evil, and on the way there come upon self discover, but really so does every book in one way or another.

Answer 2

There's a lot in common between HP and LotR. A lot more than just the fact that they're dealing with a "dark lord" who would best remain unnamed. Aside from his name, I think it's neat that the dark lord is vanquished at the very start of the story, then exists with a supernatural presence (an eye and a vapor), then gains strength again, before ultimately finding defeat.

Here's a link to the mugglenet page comparing HP and LotR... some of the things are quite a stretch while some of them are really odd connections. http://www.mugglenet.com/funlists/hpvslotr.shtml The list is quite old, so there's probably many more connections from the later HP books.

I don't know if you've finished the 7th book, so I'll add a spoiler warning here...

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The trio wearing that locket which keeps getting heavier and manipulating them and making them feel worse and downtrodden so they have to take turns. And then it talks to Ron and tries to get him not to destroy it. I was really glad they finally got rid of that thing because it was obnoxiously like Frodo carrying the ring.

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I've found a lot of books that have a lot in common with the Harry Potter series. LotR is the really big one though.

Answer 3

The dark lord in LOTR is named Sauron, and I can clearly remember people calling him by his name. :|

Honestly, I think you're grabbing at threads, because the way dementors and the Nazgul are portrayed in movies are not the way I pictured either of them in my head. Your mind is a lot more useful than the visions of a director (although it is interesting to see what other people think those brings look like). The Nazgul and the dementors have completely different backgrounds, and are really nothing alike.

Nazgul are essentially dead human kings (I guess they could be regarded as zombies). The dementors are creatures of their own kind- even though they can turn people into things similar to themselves. They're different.

Sorry I couldn't do the accent on the word "Nazgul". My computer doesn't seem to have that function.

Answer 4

There were several places, expecially in book 7, that I felt many strong similarities to LOTR. The wandering in the forest part in HP felt a lot like the section of The Two Towers where Frodo, Sam, and Gollum are wandering around on their way to Mordor. The horcrux necklace also felt like the ring in LOTR, the way it seemed to make Harry and his friends angry and such while theu wore it. Not that there similarities make me enjoy either book less, but they certainly came to mind while I was reading.

Answer 5

Sure, plenty of similarities. They're in the same genre, so there are likely to be *some*. Some books (like the Shanarra series) have *way* too many similarities with Tolkien. These literary "devices" that you've mentioned are hardly original in Tolkien. Many have used them, and many will in the future. Minor similarities are too useful to the author's story to remove them for the sake of originality.

Jim, www life-after-harry-potter com

Answer 6

The Ringwraiths in Lord of the Rings were men. The nine kings of man to whom the nine rings for the race of man went to. The dementors were never human, always creatures.

Answer 7

well they're in the same genre...so its not really that surprising but they are only basic simularities that you get in lots of books, and voldemort is also referred to as you know who. But the simularities kinda stop there, theres no wizading school in lord of the rings, and LOTR is set in middle earth....where as hp is set in now. Well, its your opinion I suppose......but I don't agree

Answer 8

I've written about this in my 360 blog - an entry entitled "It Is Finished"

There are commonalities - not just in surface elements, but in plot lines and themes.

Sauron and Voldemort - yes, the embodiment of evil.

Answer 9

Of course. Those connections are well known. It is no secret that Harry Potter is anything but original. Pax - C

http://www.geocities.com/sayswamp/worst.htm

Answer 10

Well i think you have found the main diff.s so why are you asking this????!!!!!!!