And it seems like complete rubbish in my humble opinion.
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Slytherin_Goddess — 15 years ago(June 26, 2010 11:29 PM)
No reason to pick apart tiny mistakes I make in my post. Also, when has JKR ever admitted to stealing ideas from the sword in the stone? I have looked all over and cannot find anything about that. If you could please reference something, I would appreciate it.
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phonenumberofthebeast — 15 years ago(June 27, 2010 07:09 AM)
Actually, I did that because I was replying to two different posts in one. JKR once referred to Wart as "Harry's spiritual ancestor".
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phonenumberofthebeast — 15 years ago(July 01, 2010 03:40 PM)
But it's true. Fantasy is a very narrow genre; there aren't that many tropes to draw on. Pretty much everyone is either ripping off Tolkien (who was ripping off Beowulf and Germanic mythology), Lewis (who was ripping off Judeo-Christian and Romano-Greek mythology) or White. Nearly everyone stole from Dunsany and they're all ultimately aping fairy tales anyway. Horror is even worse. King steals openly and proudly from Lovecraft, who stole openly and proudly from Poe.
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Slytherin_Goddess — 15 years ago(July 02, 2010 08:50 AM)
Well that's similar to what I'd posted poreviously. Pretty much all topics have been covered in books. I could write about a teacup trying to quit smoking and someone somewhere has already written something very similar. It's damn near impossible to write something these days that's not sharing ideas or themes with another book. It's bound to happen. But saying that writers deliberately take ideas from other works of literature is a very generalized statement and can't be said for every single author out there.
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dlmedley2003 — 15 years ago(August 13, 2010 10:44 PM)
'Re: The Books of Magic. Gaiman has come to Rowling's defence on this. He pointed out that he stole most of his ideas for that story from TH White's The Sword and the Stone, which Rowling has also admitted stealing from. So they're both equally guilty there. Can't say about The Worst Witch, but I do feel sorry for Jill Murphy, who's never made much money off her creation and is constantly being heckled for ripping off HP.
For crying out loudThere is nothing wrong with setting up some of the biggest fantasy cliche's or at least what's popular at the moment and re-imagining themHarry Potter is simply superior world building to all these books that came beforePlus her writing is simple and meaningful like early Beatles musicShe is the best
LOL! You stole my ideas then broke my balls on a Metalocalypse extra!
