Title research? WAS Chalice of Fire (was GoF Leaks) offlist
Amy Z
lupinesque at yahoo.com
Mon Apr 7 07:59:36 UTC 2003
No: HPFGUIDX 54884
I wondered:
> > Also, UUs know that that logo is called the flaming *chalice,*
> but wouldn't you have to walk into a church and hear people
> talking about it to discover that? You wouldn't know it just by
> seeing it on a church sign. <<
Pippin responded:
> Probably a market researcher made the discovery and informed
> JKR. If you type "chalice" into Google, the first thing that pops
up
> is a link to "The History of the Flaming Chalice" at the Unitarian
> Universalist Website www.uua.org/chalice.html
Sorry, Pippin--you meant to send this offlist but I think it's quite
relevant, and interesting. You're right; authors do check to see if
their chosen titles (or something close) appear anywhere else.
I tried "Doomspell" to see if its incidence somewhere else might be a
reason behind JKR's dropping the title Harry Potter and the Doomspell
Tournament. Having discovered that Doomspell is the name of a series
kickoff by a Cliff McNish, I tried again: +doomspell -rowling -
mcnish. The first non-HP, non-McNish item that cropped up was a He-
Man comic: Masters of the Universe Adventure Magazine (UK, Issue
#13, 1989). I wonder if that's what turned DT into GF?
Amy Z
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