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Re: Re:Any opinions of Harry Potter?
(What, I'm the only child?)
To clarify:
JKR had not read any Tolkien when she wrote the books. (I read that in an interview, the One Ring or something.) Her magic is the 'abracadabra' type (Actually she uses latin.)
The books are very good. Really. They're magical realism, or something.
Actually, I was once a 'major HP freak' - that's the reason I'm online in the first place, I used to roleplay at a hogwarts and it was through 'Hogwarts' taht I became adicted to the computer. <img src=tongue.gif ALT="
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Seriously, they're very good. The thing that actually struck me most as a similarity is 'He who must not be named' - Rowling and 'He who we do not name' - Tolkien. Also the 'Wormtail' and 'Wormtongue' (I only know for sure that she hadn't read Tolkien in the beginning.)
And in closing:
JKR admits to copying a lot of names and so on. I've found quite a lot of HP names in other places, and almost all the names in her books are word plays - Remus Lupin, a werewolf (there's a legend behind the Remus, 'boy raised by wolves', and Loup is moon in french.) Almost every name in the book has a meaning behind it; from a language or a legend or a book.
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Hannah~*~,
The caged bird sings with a fearful trill
Of things unknown, but longed for still
And his tune is heard on the distant hills
For the caged bird sings of freedom. ~Maya Angelou, 'Caged bird', 'Shaker, why don't you sing?'</p>