Is Harry Potter copied from Lord of the Rings?

Is Harry Potter copied from Lord of the Rings?

Because The Lord of the Rings was written several decades before Harry Potter was, many think all those similarities between the two works aren't coincidence or inspiration, but rather a copy of one another. ... However, there are some actual similarities in Harry Potter that have copied The Lord of the Rings.

Did JK Rowling read Lord of the Rings?

Rowling maintains that she had not read The Hobbit until after she completed the first Harry Potter novel (though she had read The Lord of the Rings as a teenager) and that any similarities between her books and Tolkien's are "Fairly superficial.

Did JK Rowling copy anyone?

That claim was rejected earlier this year. It alleged Rowling copied elements of Jacobs' 1987 book, among them a wizard contest and the notion of wizards travelling on trains. ... The first Harry Potter book was published in 1997 and the series has sold more than 400 million copies worldwide.

Who did JK Rowling copy from?

Harry Potter. Rowling modeled her young hero after her childhood neighborhood friend, Ian Potter, who once lived four doors down from her in her home near Bristol.

Is Dumbledore a copy of Gandalf?

Dumbledore = Gandalf Let's start with the obvious. Dumbledore and Gandalf are so similar that for an embarrassing percentage of my misled youth, I thought Michael Gambon (who plays Dumbledore in the films) and Ian McKellan (Gandalf) were actually the same person.

Which is older Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter?

For the record, J.R.R. Tolkien published "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" in 1954. ("The Hobbit" was published several years earlier in 1937.) The first Harry Potter book, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" came out in 1997.

Did the worst witch inspire Harry Potter?

Rowling has not acknowledged that Murphy's work was an inspiration, although The Worst Witch was first published in 1974 and had become a best-selling series by the time Rowling sat down to write her first Harry Potter story. ... The Worst Witch heroine is Mildred Hubble, who Murphy, 70, said was partly based on herself.

Is Harry Potter a copy of The Worst Witch?

Rowling has not acknowledged that Murphy's work was an inspiration, although The Worst Witch was first published in 1974 and had become a best-selling series by the time Rowling sat down to write her first Harry Potter story. ... The Worst Witch heroine is Mildred Hubble, who Murphy, 70, said was partly based on herself.

Who really wrote Harry Potter?

J. K. Rowling Harry Potter/Autores J.K. Rowling first had the idea for Harry Potter while delayed on a train travelling from Manchester to London King's Cross in 1990. Over the next five years, she began to plan out the seven books of the series. She wrote mostly in longhand and amassed a mountain of notes, many of which were on scraps of paper.

Do you think J.K.Rowling stole The Lord of the Rings?

• No, J.K. Rowling did not rip off The Lord of the Rings. The stories of her Harry Potter books are so dissimilar to The Lord of the Rings that no one familiar with both works would consider her to have ripped off Tolkien.

How did J.K.Rowling borrow ideas from Tolkien?

• He helps Frodo in his quest Of course, J.K. Rowling has a lot of original ideas of her own, such as the concept of muggles, and the game of Quiddich. My opinion is that she borrowed too many themes to be a coincidence. For sure she was "inspired" by Tolkien's Lord of the Ring, at least partially.

Is the Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter the same?

• If you read the Lord of the Rings series and the Harry Potter series, they are; indeed, very alike, but saying J. K. Rowling ripped the idea of Harry Potter off of Lord of the Rings, is a little bit of an overstatement.

Is the Lord of the Rings a copy of LotR?

• These are literary ideas that precede Tolkien by hundreds (if not thousands) of years. Walven Walker To all those saying that LOTR was a copy in the first place, makes JKR looks even worse! I mean she copied off a copy!!