Is there any connection between Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings?

Is there any connection between Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings?

10 Ways The Lord of the Rings & Harry Potter Universes Could Be Connected. ... Both Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings are giants of the fantasy genre — in fact, the Rowling narrative is rather similar to Tolkien's imagination in quite a few ways.

Is JK Rowling better than Tolkien?

The last reason why J.K. Rowling is so much better than J.R.R. Tolkien is that her books and all that came along with them, made for mmore money and did mach better things with it than Tolkien. The movies for Lord of the Rings Trilogy had made 2.924 billion dollers.

What did JK Rowling copy from Lord of the Rings?

Horcruxes + the Invisibility Cloak = the One Ring The Ring grants the wearer the power of invisibility, and it also corrupts them in a way that's super Horcrux-like.

Are there any hobbits in Harry Potter?

I would say that there is no connection at all. The Hobbit was completed 27 years before Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series, was born. The Hobbit is what we would now call High Fantasy, taking place in a world of Faerie, while the Rowling books are low fantasy, happening here on Earth in our time.

Did Lord of the Rings copy Harry Potter?

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.

What are the houses in the worst witch?

Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches is a girls-only boarding magic school, described as a stone castle atop a mountain, surrounded by pine forest. In the 1998 TV series, non-magic people believe the school to be the ruins of Overblow Castle.

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 Harry Potter series similar to The Lord of the Rings?

• 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. J. R. R. Tolkien and J. K. Rowling did a lot of extensive research on the genre they were writing.

Who are some of J K Rowling's literary influences?

• J.K. Rowling's literary influences -- We spot the ''Harry Potter'' author's nods to ''Macbeth,'' ''The Lord of the Rings,'' and Jane Austen