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It seems to me that there are an awful lot of parallel characters between Harry Potter and LotR. On of them jumped out at me immediately when I read DH, but there are a lot of others… (cut for spoilers!!!)
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So, really, does anyone think these are valid/invalid or just a long reach? Would you change any of them? Have you thought of any more obvious or less obvious that we missed? None of them are *exact* equivalents, of course--several of them had different fates. Still, it seems that cases could be made for the parallels drawn here.
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So, really, does anyone think these are valid/invalid or just a long reach? Would you change any of them? Have you thought of any more obvious or less obvious that we missed? None of them are *exact* equivalents, of course--several of them had different fates. Still, it seems that cases could be made for the parallels drawn here.