Ok, J.K rowling stole. most new fantasy books do. you know what. Tolkien re-invented the kind of mythology he used, and mixed it up with new things he invented by himself. the giant spiders came from many things, but the thing that made him use them so frequently was the big toxic spider that bit him when he was a boy. only as an example. and the ents are from some shakespear story where the trees rises and fight. The fact that tolkien loved trees more than some people made him invent the new mix he called the ents.
tolkien "stole" all the dwarven names too. they all came from the dwarves of the icelandic edda, including gandalf.
So.
So, did the oak steal from the flower when it invented its leaves?
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