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Compare Harry Potter to Lord of the Rings?
I'm looking to add to the list below:
Harry Potter_//_Lord of the Rings.
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Dementors_//_Nazgul.
Deatheaters_//_Orcs.
Haggrid_//_Beorn.
Hog's Head_//_Prancing Pony.
Invisibility cloak_//_Invisibility ring.
Horcruxes_//_The rings of Men & Dwarves.
Ring horcrux_//_The One Ring.
Butterbeer is served at the tavern_//_Butterbur serves the tavern.
Dumbledore_//_Gandalf.
Gryffindor's sword_//_Sting & Anduril.
Voldemort_//_Saruman & Sauron.
Dursleys_//_Sackville-Bagginses.
Bowtruckles_//_Ents.
Sirius Black_//_Aragorn & Boromir.
Pensive, Erised mirror_//_Galadriel's mirror.
House Elves_//_Tolkein-style Goblins (Physical appearance).
Rowling-style Goblins_//_Dwarves (Smithing, weaponcraft, infatuation with gems & shiny metals).
Ron Weasley_//_Samwise Gamgee.
Kreacher & Dobby_//_Smeagol (Gollum).
Harry's murdered parents_//_Frodo's drowned parents.
Harry lives with uncle_//_Frodo lives with uncle.
Forbidden Forest_//_Old Forest, Mirkwood, Fangorn.
Wormtail_//_Wormtongue.
Aragog_//_Shelob.
Werewolf army_//_Wargs.
Womping Willow_//_Old Man Willow.
Harry's wandmade scar_//_Frodo's Morgul Blade scar.
Harry's permanent head scar-//_Merry's permanent head scar.
Parseltongue_//_Blackspeech.
Don't say Voldemort_//_Don't say Mordor.
Skull & snake_//_Eye of Sauron.
Harry's telepathic dreams of Voldemort_//_Sauron's connection to the ring & the Morgal scar bearer's ability to sense Nazgul.
Hippogryff rescues Sirius from Hogworts tower_//_Giant eagle rescues Gandalf from Orthanc tower.
I forgot to mention that I was looking for examples & not opinions. Reguardless of the vote, nobody wins.
Okey, so Ron is probably starts like Sam & ends up more like Pippin.
You can dislike comparisons all you want, but you know what they say; if you're going to steal, steal from the best...& then deny it.
Aragorn is like Sirius because he is the "chosen one's" promary guardian, & when they are first introduced, the author basically describes them both as being untrustworthy looking. Also, the were initially not trusted by the main character at first. But I will give you one thing; Siriius is a total prick while Aragorn is nice.
The ring grants invisibility to almost everyone; when Frodo wears it, his friends cannot see him. That's insisible enough.
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- NawniLv 41 decade agoFavorite Answer
In general, I heartily dislike comparisons between Tolkien's work and Rowling's. However, I will presume that when you say "compare" you are not saying that these things are the same, but that they have enough passing similarities to be worthy of being looked at; one against the other. I think you could write an essay on every one of these comparisons and what they do in their respective stories.
That said:
Deatheaters aren't really like Orcs, except insofar as they both serve Dark Lords (but they have that in common with Dementors, werewolves, the Nazgul, trolls, etc). If anything Deatheaters are more like the Nazgul, who were men corrupted by the Dark Lord. They wear dark cloaks, you can't see their faces... that would be a more sensible connection. In which case you could compare Bellatrix to Angmar (the Lord of the Nazgul).
When you compare "Don't say Voldemort" with "Don't say Mordor", it should really be "Don't say Sauron" I'm pretty sure Faramir refers to Sauron as 'he who we do not name'.
I don't know if you've ever noticed, but Rowling's centaurs share some characteristics with Tolkien's Wood-elves. Particularly in the way they both dwell in the woods, both distrust outsiders, both prefer bow and arrow, both are sometimes feared.
Of course, a more interesting thing to compare would be the different treatments of "monsters" in the two series. Rowling treats them as though they are a stigmatized racial group who need not necessarily be bad (this is most notably the case with werewolves and giants). Tolkien treats them as creatures that once were good ("Nothing is evil in the beginning, not even Sauron." -Gandalf), but have become corrupted and now are genuine monsters.
- lupinesidheLv 71 decade ago
There are so many things wrong with your comparisons that it's difficult to know where to begin.
WHat invisibility ring are you talking about if not the One Ring? and if you are talking about the one, there's no way you can compare it to an invisibility cloak. The cloak grants true invisibility...the one does not. All the cloak does is grant invisibility...the one has a HOST of other powers that it grants to its wielder as well as the ability to drive the wielder insane if they don't possess the personal power to master it. Though, the act of mastering it is enough to drive a person insane. The cloak does not has a sentience of it's own. The ring does.
Aragorn is absolutely nothing like Sirius Black. Nothing. Sirius is a bit like Boromir...but even that is a stretch.
Is this an assignment for school? If not, don't try to compare Lord of the Rings to Harry Potter. Aside of being to very different styles of fantasy and incredibly different stories, they were written in completely different time periods making the writing vastly different. They were also written for two completely different audiences. They're both good in their own right, but they should not be compared to each other.
- 1 decade ago
Can I just say that Ron is not the equivalent of Sam. Ron abandons Harry twice when Harry is most in need of his best friend. Samwise would never do that. Just saying...I mean, I love Ron, but he's no Sam.
