just Potter-Ring around

I am absolutely in love with LotR (Lord of the Rings) and other brilliant Tolkien works. I also adore J.K.Rowling's Harry Potter series. Both according to me are incomparable works of creative genius. They are two different genres of books addressing (and enticing) two different types of readers. Both are rich in detail and both paint vivid pictures of fantasy-fiction in the readers' minds. After reading (and reading and re-reading) both the series, about a zillion times, I am forced to admit to some similarities between the two.

1) Hogwarts is Harry's 'Shire'

2) Attention to detail: the Weasley/Black family tree vs the shire-folks' family trees
3) Who is more powerful: Dumbledore or Gandalf?
4) Who is darker: Sauron or Voldemort?
5) Aragorn-Legolas-Gimli team vs. Harry-Hermoine-Ron team.
6) Gandalf is to Frodo what Dumbledore is to Harry
7) Moria vs. the Cave on the rocks.
8) Eowyn-Aragorn vs. Hermoine-Krum
9) Aragorn's mom vs. Harry's mom.
10) Boromir vs. Marietta.
11) Fellowship of the Ring vs. Dumbledore's Army/Order of the Phoenix.
12) The Old Forest/Fangorn Forest vs. The Forbidden Forest.
13) Brego was to Aragorn what Buckbeak was to Sirius
14) flying Nazgul vs. flying Voldemort & Death eaters
15) Eagles in LoTR/Hobbit vs. Thestrals/Hippogrifs in Potter books - both helpful in battle/emergency transport.
16) Was the One Ring Sauron's Horcrux?
17) Phoenix-core wand is to Harry what Sting is to Frodo.
18) Grindelwald preceeds Voldemort as dark wizard in the potter books; Morgoth preceeds Sauron in Tolkien books - all 4 appeared to be good & turned bad later.
19) Shelob vs. Aragog.
20) Gandalf's dragon vs. Fred's & George's dragon (fireworks)?
21) 'Lights' in the Dead Marshes vs. Inferi in the Cave.
22) Pranksters: Merry & Pippin vs. Weasley Twins.

23) Round-faced & fearful: Fatty Bolger vs. Neville Longbottom.

24) Gay-couple: Legolas-Gimli vs. Dumbledore-Grindelwald.

25) Teams: Bilbo + 13 Dwarves with 3 Trolls (The Hobbit) vs. Harry + Hermoine + Ron with 1 Troll.

26) Pathetic position: Gollum or Winky

27) Better betraying the bad guy's trust: Saruman or Regulus

28) Final Battles: Before the Black Gate vs. Battle of Hogwarts

29) Prophecies: Malbeth the seer vs. the 2 Trelawney women.

30) Forced to consort with the bad guys: Wormtail Wormtongue vs. Draco.

More questions will undoubtedly occur to me - I will post them on my blog as they arise...

I have to say this though, Tolkien came up with the tale of one Horcrux being destroyed & Rowling came up with a story of seven such things being destroyed and I am glad to have had the pleasure of reading both.

my potential blog-roll

Predictably, I will be blogging about my favorite books, movies & tv shows. So here's a list of the stuff I like &(potentially) what you'll be reading about here.

Books
Read recently:
Michael Scott - The Alchemyst, The Magician, The Soceress, The Necromancer, The Warlock (The Enchantress; to be published in 2012)
Alison Croggon - The Naming, The Riddle, The Crow, The Singing (series complete)
Stephanie Meyer - Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn (series complete)

Old favorites:
Louisa May Alcot - Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom
JK Rowling - Harry Potter series
JRR Tolkien - The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, Unfinished Tales of Numenor, Middle Earth collection
Anne Rice - The Vampire Collection (Interview with a Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned, The Vampire Armand, Pandora)
Jules Verne - Twenty thousand leagues under the sea
Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe
Oscar Wilde - The picture of Dorian Gray

TV Shows
Animation:
Avatar - the last airbender (The Avatar can 'bend' the elements air, earth, water & fire and fights the evil 'fire-lord)
Jackie Chan adventures (Jackie Chan is a evil-magic-battling archaelogist; fun to watch)
Cardcaptor Sakura (little girl captures magic cards; two movies were also made to go with the series; childish but fun)

Regular (non-anim):
Bones (wry/witty humor;crime; Season 1 episode 19 is one of my favorite episodes for it's witty one-liners)
Numb3rs (for those who love math, humor & crime)
Psych (very funny/ridiculous; crime)
Criminal Minds (very serious; crime)
NCIS (good balance between seriousness & fun;crime/mystery)
Merlin (fun; fake myth; action; romance)
Perry Mason (with Ray Burr, Will Hopper & Barbie Hale)
Agatha Christie (always awesome)
Xena (cheesy; fake myth; action; romance)
The adventures of Sinbad (with Zen Gesner...enough said.)

Movies
Recent:
Toy Story 3
Eclipse (the whole twilight series is worth watching if you can endure crappy acting; silly but fun with decent action/special effects)
Harry Potter 7.1 & 7.2
Chocolate (thai movie with Jeeja Yanin)
Ong Bak (thai movie with Tony Jaa)
Ip Man & Ip Man2 (with Donnie Yen)
Ransom (old Mel Gibson movie; decent kidnapping plot/thriller)
The lovely bones (Thriller; not exactly nail-biting but engaging)
Murder by Death (directed by Bob Moore; one of the best mystery comedies I've ever seen; very witty dialogues - definitely a must-see)
Old favorites:
Lord of the Rings triology
The Potter movies
The Twilight movies
The X-men series
The Matrix trilogy
The Transporter series
The Touch (Michelle Yeoh at her best)
Jason Bourne trilogy (Matt Damon's special 3)
Sudden Death (typical Van-Damme action movie)
Die Hard series (Bruce Willis' action movies; sort of set a new trend for action movies)
3 ninjas series (kids' martial arts movies)
Blue Streak (funny crime movie; thief acts as a cop to get his loot)
Baby Geniuses (one of the cutest movies I've ever seen; must watch)