Star Wars and Middle-Earth

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There are plenty of similarities between SW and LOTR. Jean Tang, a writer for the website Salon.com said,

Both movies feature mentors who duel bad guys atop narrow passageways, as well as secondary villains - Darth Vader and Saruman the White, both deserters to the dark side, both fond of telekinetic violence - who provide the more visible nemesis. Along the way, both heroes encounter women in white gowns, cynical older-brother types, sidekicks playing for laughs and faceless cannon fodder (storm troopers and orcs). Both make use of mystical languages, mystical spiritual beliefs and pivotal scenes in bars and in watery mucky - mucks (compare the swamp at the gates of Moria to the garbage chute in the Death Star.

If you think about it, all these are true.

There are also many other similarities:
1. Gollum - Yoda (greenish raggedy midget with speech impediment)
2. Magic swords (Sting, Glamdring, Anduril) - Lightsabers
3.Gandalf - Obi-Wan Kenobi
4. Eowyn - Princess Leia
5.Saruman - Darth Vader
6. Sauron - Palpatine
7.Bilbo digs his magic sword out of an old wooden box and gives it to Frodo.
Obi-Wan digs Anakin's lightsaber out of an old wooden box and gives it to Luke.
8. Gollum bites off Frodo's finger, which plunges into the abyss with the Ring.
Vader chops off Luke's hand, which plunges into the abyss with his lightsaber.
9.Galadriel foretells the future, and Sam must decide whether to help his friends or not. Yoda foretells the future and Luke must decide whether to help his friends or not. They both warn that they've only seen one possible future.
10. Saruman tries to convince Gandalf to join the evil wizards, thereby bringing order to ME. Darth Vader tries to get Luke to join the dark side, thereby bringing order to the galaxy.
11.Mundane name and special name (Strider and Aragorn, Ben and Obi-Wan0
12. Mysterious figure throws back hood of robe to reveal that he's Gandalf. Mysterious figure throws back hood to reveal he's Obi-Wan.

That's pretty cool, all those similarities.