I agree on tolkien being the ultimate in fantasy literature and world
creation, though again with the horcrux and the ring I don't think there is
really a paralell, sinse both are part of the more general concept of
dangerous magical objects with some degree of sentiencewhich this goes right
back to griek or naus mythology.
Indeed, Nordic myths had the ring of the neibelung (sorry if I'm mangling
spelling), which was not Richard vargna's invention, and griek myths had the
ring of gorgias, a ring that would make it's wearer invisible and thus
outside of all moral responsability, so would be bound to corrupt them.
So Again, both tolkien's ring and the idea of a horcrux I see more
asvariations on a central concept, than direct copies of anything.
Likewise, both voldemort and sauron use the title "the dark lord" (as in
fact does morgoth in the silmarillion), but neither can be said to be a copy
sinse that title is more a general description of a powerfull evil ruler,
and the two characters are extremely different.
if however someone wrote a book with a dark lord who lived in a black tower,
was never seen and most of who's power was contained in a magical object
that he was searching for, or a dark lord who was an undead sorcerer who's
soul had been split into peaces, ---- well then you could probably say
originality was lacking.
Beware the Grue!
Dark.
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