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04-13-2003, 05:06 PM
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04-13-2003, 07:38 PM
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Hmm...don't remember Merry having a scar on his forehead...
 And the Fellowship didn't really fight a troll. 
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04-13-2003, 09:24 PM
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I think Merry did have a scar on his forehead. I forget exactly how he got it. It's somewhere in RotK
But that's not slealing ideas just because HP has a scar too. I think stealing would be copying the storyline, not all the little details. The one about Dumbledor though I don't know. I still don't think that that's copying. Maybe she just used the first word to pop into her head or something like that. It sounds like a made up name anyway, maybe she did think she was really making up a new name.
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04-14-2003, 04:09 AM
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the Shrike
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Did Merry get it on the way to Fangorn, when he was with the orks? Wasn't there a scuffle or something?
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04-14-2003, 03:02 PM
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 As if Tolkien invented most of those things anyway! The hero with deceased parents is hardly original to Tolkien. He knew better than anyone that he was following in the tradition of ancient mythologies. And if "a mischevious pair" is a copy of Tolkien, writers (of children's books especially) have been copying Tolkien for a couple of centuries
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04-15-2003, 04:17 PM
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Elf Lord
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Most of the similarities in the site are redicolous. In many stories I can find a troll, or an evil sorcerer. I don't think HP is a copy of LOTR - I can find many stories that are more similar. Lotr fans think it is because it's a succesfull book.
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