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 Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings come first?

“Harry Potter” came out a few years after Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings.” Ahead of Peter Jackson’s “Lord of the Rings” prequel, “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,” an adamant fan took to IMDB’s message boards to note the many similarities between “The Lord of the Rings” and “Harry Potter.” Cool.

Did JK Rowling rip off 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.

Did JK Rowling really copy the Harry Potter series?

The whole thing is pretty silly, of course. The publisher is vehemently denyingany copying, and it seems unlikely that any copying did actually happen. However even if you didgrant the premise and say that Rowling was “inspired” by some other book, so what?

Is JK Rowling borrowing from her books?

Even J.K. Rowling, the pinnacle of all human endeavor, is not immune to the temptation of borrowing—as evidenced by some of the stuff in her books that you might recognize from a little thing called The Lord of the Rings. And we ain’t even mad.

Did JK Rowling plagiarize Willy The Wizard?

The latest is that Rowling’s publisher, Bloomsbury Publishing, has been sued again for plagiarismover the Potter books, this time by the estate of Adrian Jacobs. It seems that Jacobs once wrote a book about a boy wizard called Willy The Wizardthat has some distant similarities to some stuff that happens in the Potter books.