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just_call_me_dookie
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 | June 15th, 2007 at 06:44pm Indeed. |
Meski
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 | June 15th, 2007 at 06:47pm I must sleep!
But I can't sleep
24:47 h over here. |
Meski
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| June 15th, 2007 at 06:51pm I've recently been reading the Lord of the Rings and I think that Dumbledore is like Gandalf. And Sauron is like Voldemort. I don't know maybe I'm too tired |
Flaming Phalanges!
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Posts: 17669 | June 15th, 2007 at 07:13pm I couldn't get on with LOTR. Too much description and it just seemed to drag on and on.
I did read the entire first book though, so I spose that's something. I just think it's a bit too much...I mean, I know HP is really long, but there's always something happening, and the description is never too detailed and stuff, cos then it gets boring. |
Meski
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| June 15th, 2007 at 07:36pm Well the point is that I think JK based the HP characters on the LOTR characters. |
just_call_me_dookie
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| June 15th, 2007 at 10:11pm I think HP is loosly based off Star Wars. |
Meski
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| June 16th, 2007 at 05:18am just_call_me_dookie:I think HP is loosly based off Star Wars.  Star Wars? But there's no magic. |
Flaming Phalanges!
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Posts: 17669 | June 16th, 2007 at 05:46am just_call_me_dookie:I think HP is loosly based off Star Wars.
I don't think it's based on Star Wars, just that there's loads of similarities, and it's a bit like the formula for an epic saga. |
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| June 16th, 2007 at 06:49am Look, there is always a villain and a good guy who is ought to save the world. And a some form of a mentor-helper.
Harry & Dumbledore & Voldemort
Frodo & Gandalf & Sauron
Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy Pevensie & Aslan & White Witch (Chronicles of Narnia)
Eragon & Brom & King Galbatorix (Eragon)
Its all very similar. |
Flaming Phalanges!
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Posts: 17669 | June 16th, 2007 at 07:13am Yeah, there's all these different formulas that I was studying in media but I threw it all out when I dropped out. Something about the main characters, and they had it as the Princess, the Hero, the Villain, the Helper, all stuff like that, because all good stories have them. |
just_call_me_dookie
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| June 16th, 2007 at 07:34am Meski:just_call_me_dookie:I think HP is loosly based off Star Wars. Star Wars? But there's no magic. But the dark side...the Prophecy...  |
just_call_me_dookie
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| June 16th, 2007 at 07:34am Flaming Phalanges!:just_call_me_dookie:I think HP is loosly based off Star Wars.
I don't think it's based on Star Wars, just that there's loads of similarities, and it's a bit like the formula for an epic saga. That's what I was meaning  |
just_call_me_dookie
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| June 16th, 2007 at 07:35am Vukodlak.:Look, there is always a villain and a good guy who is ought to save the world. And a some form of a mentor-helper.
Harry & Dumbledore & Voldemort
Frodo & Gandalf & Sauron
Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy Pevensie & Aslan & White Witch (Chronicles of Narnia)
Eragon & Brom & King Galbatorix (Eragon)
Its all very similar. I hate LOTR |
Meski
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| June 16th, 2007 at 07:45am Vukodlak.:Look, there is always a villain and a good guy who is ought to save the world. And a some form of a mentor-helper.
Harry & Dumbledore & Voldemort
Frodo & Gandalf & Sauron
Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy Pevensie & Aslan & White Witch (Chronicles of Narnia)
Eragon & Brom & King Galbatorix (Eragon)
Its all very similar. Yeah but in LOTR, the only thing Frodo has to do is destroy the ring, and the only wizards are Gandalf and Sauron |
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| June 16th, 2007 at 07:50am Meski:Vukodlak.:Look, there is always a villain and a good guy who is ought to save the world. And a some form of a mentor-helper.
Harry & Dumbledore & Voldemort
Frodo & Gandalf & Sauron
Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy Pevensie & Aslan & White Witch (Chronicles of Narnia)
Eragon & Brom & King Galbatorix (Eragon)
Its all very similar. Yeah but in LOTR, the only thing Frodo has to do is destroy the ring, and the only wizards are Gandalf and Sauron If all the story plot lines were the same, then all books like this would be boring. 
I said that you have the basic idea, its on the author to make an interesting story line out if it. |
Meski
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| June 16th, 2007 at 07:55am Vukodlak.:Meski:Vukodlak.:Look, there is always a villain and a good guy who is ought to save the world. And a some form of a mentor-helper.
Harry & Dumbledore & Voldemort
Frodo & Gandalf & Sauron
Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy Pevensie & Aslan & White Witch (Chronicles of Narnia)
Eragon & Brom & King Galbatorix (Eragon)
Its all very similar. Yeah but in LOTR, the only thing Frodo has to do is destroy the ring, and the only wizards are Gandalf and Sauron If all the story plot lines were the same, then all books like this would be boring.
I said that you have the basic idea, its on the author to make an interesting story line out if it. Sorry  |
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| June 16th, 2007 at 08:44am Vukodlak.:Look, there is always a villain and a good guy who is ought to save the world. And a some form of a mentor-helper.
Harry & Dumbledore & Voldemort
Frodo & Gandalf & Sauron
Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy Pevensie & Aslan & White Witch (Chronicles of Narnia)
Eragon & Brom & King Galbatorix (Eragon)
Its all very similar.
Arthur and Merlin and Morgan le Fay  |
Flaming Phalanges!
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Posts: 17669 | June 16th, 2007 at 10:06am justxlies:I read a book once that was so similar to LOTR once.Instead of Aragorn they had Aragoth 
and instead of Gondor they had Krondor etc etc etc. It was still really good though.
All these sce-fi fantasy types are similar because they fit into the stereotypes of the genre 
The genre just so happens to be my fav tbh
Was it Bored of the Rings? I haven't read it, but it was basically a parody of LOTR. |
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| June 16th, 2007 at 11:12am Bloodraine:Vukodlak.:Look, there is always a villain and a good guy who is ought to save the world. And a some form of a mentor-helper.
Harry & Dumbledore & Voldemort
Frodo & Gandalf & Sauron
Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy Pevensie & Aslan & White Witch (Chronicles of Narnia)
Eragon & Brom & King Galbatorix (Eragon)
Its all very similar.
Arthur and Merlin and Morgan le Fay omg I forgot about that.  |
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| June 16th, 2007 at 11:45am Flaming Phalanges!:justxlies:I read a book once that was so similar to LOTR once.Instead of Aragorn they had Aragoth
and instead of Gondor they had Krondor etc etc etc. It was still really good though.
All these sce-fi fantasy types are similar because they fit into the stereotypes of the genre
The genre just so happens to be my fav tbh
Was it Bored of the Rings? I haven't read it, but it was basically a parody of LOTR.
Barry Trotter is better than Bored Of The Rings |
