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Originally Posted by teddylupin  Hm... that might be possible, its' an intresting thought.
Random possible similarities:
Merry and Pippin always reminded me very strongly of the Weasley twins. The penchance for trouble and mischeif, certainly, is the same.
Gandalf and Saruman, and Dumbledore and Grindelwald, who were both contemporaries of each other at some point- and later enemies. Both Saruman and Grindelwald were defeated by Gandalf (admittedly in a less direct way) and Dumbledore, but not killed until later on, neither times by someone who was on the winning side.
Giant spiders- Shelob in LOTR, and Aragog (well, his family, at least) in HP.
The Forests, Old and Forbidden, navigatable by Bombadil and Hagrid. Obviously, the difference being that the trees themselves are the threat in the Old Forest, while the creatures that inhabit the Forbidden are dangerous. However, Bombadil and Hagrid both have some measure of control over these dangers.
Dementors find their forerunners either in the Nazgul, or in the Barrow-wrights. In that case, the Nazgul are representative of Voldemort's Inner Circle, summoned at their's master's will. |
Well yes and no. I think most of these things are some kind of archetypes.
The spider in both storys for example. There are a lot of storys who work with the fear of spiders (giant or not).
Also dark forests, with wathever unknown and scary in there you can find often enough even in very old fairy tails.
Between Dementors and Nazgul I can not see that they have anything in common.
Also between the Nazgul and the Inner Circle.
I mean every "big evil" has something like that in any way.
Also Satan is usually surrounded by whatever.
Or Dracula, or anyone else on this side of the Bad and the Good.
And they are always creatures without theire own will or thoughts. Because usually when they start to think on their own (again) they change the side (Snape, Regulus) or they are killed.