Plagiarism? Or Simple Coincidence?

[Lord Halsar]

Originally Posted by Alfirin

As for Star Wars practically any fantasy can seem to be the origin of it. Lucas based all of the Star Wars charcters and the plot of the movies itself on mythological archetypes (He said so much) therefore all fantasy stories will seem to resonate with them since many of them draw from the same meta-legends. In fact I once read a great essay which drew parallels between Luke and Yoda's relationship in The Empire Strikes back and that between Miyamoto Yoshi-tsune and Sojobo the Tengu King in the classic Japanese legend Ushiwaka Maru .
as for Giant Spiders they too have a long an honorable history in fantasy, from the Japnese legend of the spider woan metioned earlier to the Lovecraft Mythos's Atlach-Nacha.

You sure know your Japanese folklore don't you. I can't even read most of their names, let alone the legends themselves(and believe me, I've tried).