[HPforGrownups] Just a question....

[bufo_viridis at interia.pl]

No: HPFGUIDX 93652

djrfdh:
> I'm sure most of you have either read, or seen, Lord Of The 
> Rings...is it just me, or has anyone else noticed certain 
> similarities between that and Harry Potter? There are many things 
> that are related....

Of course they are, as they are related with myriads of other fantasy and non-fantasy books, mythological stories and folktales. The great work of segregating basic themes of a thousands folk-tales was done by Vladimir Propp in 1928. For those who are to lazy to rea the Russian orignal (shame on you) or even the English translation of his "Morphology of the Folktale" (more shame on you) I present the links below: 

http://mural.uv.es/vifresal/Propp.htm
http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/wyrick/debclass/propp.htm
And especially interesting, because compares ao stages proposed by Campbell and Van Gennep:

http://faculty.gvsu.edu/websterm/Hero.htm

You can trace HP story through it quite easily - just remember the Propp's stages does not necessarily follow in very ordered manner, different combinations are allowed.

Cheers, Viridis
P.S. Don't ask me if I've read Propp - I haven't :)

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