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Harry Potter influences and analogues

Index Harry Potter influences and analogues

Writer J. K. Rowling cites several writers as influences in her creation of her bestselling Harry Potter series. [1]

223 relations: A Tale of Two Cities, A Wizard of Earthsea, Absent-minded professor, Achilles, Aeschylus, Albus Dumbledore, Allison & Busby, Ancient of Days, Animal Farm, Anthony Buckeridge, Anthony Horowitz, Aslan, BBC, BBC Radio 4, Beatrix Potter, Bible, Bloomsbury Publishing, Boarding school, Byronic hero, C. S. Lewis, Catch-22, Charles Band, Charles Darnay, Charles Dickens, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charmed Life (novel), Chris Columbus (filmmaker), Civil and political rights, Clement Freud, Cold Comfort Farm, Colette, Comic Book Resources, Daily Mirror, Daniel Defoe, Darth Vader, David Aaronovitch, David Copperfield, DC Comics, Declan Lynch, Diana Wynne Jones, Discworld, Dodie Smith, Dorothy L. Sayers, Draco Malfoy, Dylan Horrocks, E. Nesbit, Elizabeth Goudge, Emily Brontë, Emma (novel), Ender's Game, ..., English folklore, Entertainment Weekly, Eustace Scrubb, Eva Ibbotson, Fantasy literature, Fantasy tropes, Gandalf, Geoffrey Chaucer, George Lucas, George Orwell, George's Marvellous Medicine, Gothic fiction, Gríma Wormtongue, Greensleeves, Grimble, Hamlet, Harper Lee, Harry Flashman, Harry Potter, Harry Potter (character), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Heathcliff (Wuthering Heights), Hector, Hogwarts, Homo sapiens, I Capture the Castle, Iliad, J. D. Salinger, J. K. Rowling, J. R. R. Tolkien, Jack Kirby, James and the Giant Peach, Jane Austen, Jane Yolen, Jedi, Jennings (novel series), Jessica Mitford, Jill Murphy, John Bunyan, John Carl Buechler, John Granger, John Hodge (screenwriter), Joseph Heller, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Katherine Mansfield, Kenneth Grahame, Legal disputes over the Harry Potter series, Legend Entertainment, List of minor 2000 AD stories, List of supporting Harry Potter characters, Lloyd Alexander, Lolita, London King's Cross railway station, Lord Voldemort, Luke Skywalker, Macbeth, Macbeth (character), Magical creatures in Harry Potter, Magical objects in Harry Potter, Magician (fantasy), Magneto (comics), Manxmouse, Marvel Comics, Matilda (novel), Maya Jaggi, Merlin, Ministry of Magic, Morris dance, Muggle, MuggleNet, Mutant (Marvel Comics), Nazgûl, Neil Gaiman, New Orleans, New York (magazine), Newsweek, Noah Hathaway, O, The Oprah Magazine, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Old Man Willow, One Ring, Order of the Phoenix (fictional organisation), Orson Scott Card, Over Sea, Under Stone, Patroclus, Paul Gallico, Plot twist, Professor X, Quakers, Red herring, Roald Dahl, Robinson Crusoe, Roddy Doyle, Romanticism, Ron Weasley, Royal Society of Literature, Rubeus Hagrid, Sauron, School story, Severus Snape, Shelob, Sith, Sonny Bono, Spanish Civil War, Spellcasting (series), Spellcasting 101: Sorcerers Get All The Girls, Stan Lee, Star Wars, Stella Gibbons, Stephen Fry, Steve Meretzky, Sunday Independent (Ireland), Superhero, Susan Cooper, T. H. White, Terry Pratchett, The Book of Three, The Books of Magic, The Canterbury Tales, The Catcher in the Rye, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Chronicles of Prydain, The Colour of Magic, The Commitments (novel), The Dallas Morning News, The Dark Is Rising Sequence, The Force, The Harry Potter Lexicon, The Hobbit, The Leaky Cauldron (website), The Little White Horse, The Lord of the Rings, The Mail on Sunday, The New York Times, The Once and Future King, The Pardoner's Tale, The Pilgrim's Progress, The Scotsman, The Secret of Platform 13, The Seeker (film), The Story of the Treasure Seekers, The Sunday Times, The Sword in the Stone (novel), The Tale Of Two Bad Mice, The Van (novel), The Wind in the Willows, The Worst Witch, Thomas Hughes, Three Witches, Timothy Hunter, To Kill a Mockingbird, Tom Brown's School Days, Tom Brown's Schooldays (2005 film), Tom Shippey, Troll (film), University of Missouri, Unseen University, Ursula K. Le Guin, Victorian era, Vladimir Nabokov, Walt Disney, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. v. RDR Books, Welsh mythology, William Penn, William Shakespeare, Wired (magazine), Wizard's Hall, Wuthering Heights, X-Men, Young Sherlock Holmes, 1 Corinthians 15, 2000 AD (comics). Expand index (173 more) »

A Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution.

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A Wizard of Earthsea

A Wizard of Earthsea is a fantasy novel written by American author Ursula K. Le Guin and first published by the small press Parnassus in 1968.

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Absent-minded professor

The absent-minded professor is a stock character of popular fiction, usually portrayed as a talented academic whose academic brilliance is accompanied by below-par functioning in other areas, leading to forgetfulness and mistakes.

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Achilles

In Greek mythology, Achilles or Achilleus (Ἀχιλλεύς, Achilleus) was a Greek hero of the Trojan War and the central character and greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad.

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Aeschylus

Aeschylus (Αἰσχύλος Aiskhulos;; c. 525/524 – c. 456/455 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian.

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Albus Dumbledore

Professor Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore is a fictional character in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.

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Allison & Busby

Allison & Busby (A & B) is a publishing house based in London established by Clive Allison and Margaret Busby in 1967.

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Ancient of Days

Ancient of Days is a name for God in the Book of Daniel: in the original Aramaic atik yomin עַתִּיק יֹומִין; in the Septuagint palaios hemeron παλαιὸς ἡμερῶν; and in the Vulgate antiquus dierum.

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Animal Farm

Animal Farm is an allegorical novella by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945.

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Anthony Buckeridge

Anthony Malcolm Buckeridge OBE (20 June 1912 – 28 June 2004) was an English author, best known for his Jennings and Rex Milligan series of children's books.

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Anthony Horowitz

Anthony Horowitz, OBE (born 5 April 1955) is an English novelist and screenwriter specialising in mystery and suspense.

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Aslan

Aslan is a main character in C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia series.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a radio station owned and operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history.

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Beatrix Potter

Helen Beatrix Potter (British English, North American English also, 28 July 186622 December 1943) was an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist best known for her children's books featuring animals, such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit.

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Bible

The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, tà biblía, "the books") is a collection of sacred texts or scriptures that Jews and Christians consider to be a product of divine inspiration and a record of the relationship between God and humans.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

Bloomsbury Publishing plc (formerly M.B.N.1 Limited and Bloomsbury Publishing Company Limited) is a British independent, worldwide publishing house of fiction and non-fiction.

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Boarding school

A boarding school provides education for pupils who live on the premises, as opposed to a day school.

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Byronic hero

The Byronic hero is a variant of the Romantic hero as a type of character, named after the English Romantic poet Lord Byron.

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C. S. Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, broadcaster, lecturer, and Christian apologist.

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Catch-22

Catch-22 is a satirical novel by American author Joseph Heller.

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Charles Band

Charles Robert Band (born December 27, 1951) is an American film producer and director, known for his work on horror comedy movies.

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Charles Darnay

Charles Darnay, Charles D'Aulnais or Charles St.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic.

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 1964 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl.

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Charmed Life (novel)

Charmed Life is a children's fantasy novel by British author Diana Wynne Jones published by Macmillan Children's Books in 1977.

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Chris Columbus (filmmaker)

Chris Joseph Columbus (born September 10, 1958) is an American filmmaker.

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Civil and political rights

Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals.

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Clement Freud

Sir Clement Raphael Freud (24 April 192415 April 2009) was a British broadcaster, writer, politician and chef.

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Cold Comfort Farm

Cold Comfort Farm is a comic novel by English author Stella Gibbons, published in 1932.

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Colette

Colette (Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, 28 January 1873 – 3 August 1954) was a French novelist nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948.

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Comic Book Resources

Comic Book Resources, also known as CBR, is a website dedicated to the coverage of comic book-related news and discussion.

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Daily Mirror

The Daily Mirror is a British national daily tabloid newspaper founded in 1903.

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Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe (13 September 1660 - 24 April 1731), born Daniel Foe, was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy.

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Darth Vader

Darth Vader (birth name Anakin Skywalker) is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise.

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David Aaronovitch

David Morris Aaronovitch (born 8 July 1954) is an English journalist, television presenter and author.

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David Copperfield

David Copperfield is the eighth novel by Charles Dickens.

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DC Comics

DC Comics, Inc. is an American comic book publisher.

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Declan Lynch

Declan Lynch (born 1961) is an Irish journalist, writer and playwright.

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Diana Wynne Jones

Diana Wynne Jones (16 August 1934 – 26 March 2011) was a British writer, principally of fantasy novels for children and adults.

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Discworld

Discworld is a comic fantasy book series written by the English author Terry Pratchett (1948–2015), set on the fictional Discworld, a flat disc balanced on the backs of four elephants which in turn stand on the back of a giant turtle, Great A'Tuin.

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Dodie Smith

Dorothy Gladys "Dodie" Smith (3 May 1896 – 24 November 1990) was an English children's novelist and playwright, known best for the novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians (1956).

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Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (13 June 1893 – 17 December 1957) was a renowned English crime writer and poet.

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Draco Malfoy

Draco Lucius Malfoy is a character in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.

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Dylan Horrocks

Dylan Horrocks (born 6 October 1966 in Auckland, New Zealand) is a cartoonist best known for his graphic novel Hicksville and his scripts for the Batgirl comic book series.

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E. Nesbit

Edith Nesbit (married name Edith Bland; 15 August 1858 – 4 May 1924) was an English author and poet; she published her books for children under the name of E. Nesbit.

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Elizabeth Goudge

Elizabeth de Beauchamp Goudge FRSL (24 April 1900 – 1 April 1984) was a British author of novels, short stories and children's books as Elizabeth Goudge.

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Emily Brontë

Emily Jane Brontë (commonly; 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature.

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Emma (novel)

Emma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance.

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Ender's Game

Ender's Game is a 1985 military science fiction novel by American author Orson Scott Card.

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English folklore

English folklore is the folk tradition which has developed in England over a number of centuries.

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Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is an American magazine, published by Meredith Corporation, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books and popular culture.

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Eustace Scrubb

Eustace Clarence Scrubb is a fictional character in C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia.

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Eva Ibbotson

Eva Maria Charlotte Michelle Ibbotson (née Wiesner), better known as Eva Ibbotson (21 January 1925 – 20 October 2010), was an Austrian-born British novelist, known for her children's books.

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Fantasy literature

Fantasy literature is literature set in an imaginary universe, often but not always without any locations, events, or people from the real world.

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Fantasy tropes

Fantasy tropes are a specific type of literary tropes that occur in fantasy fiction.

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Gandalf

Gandalf is a fictional character and one of the protagonists in J. R. R. Tolkien's novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

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Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – 25 October 1400), known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages.

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George Lucas

George Walton Lucas Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an American filmmaker and entrepreneur.

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George Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic whose work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism and outspoken support of democratic socialism.

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George's Marvellous Medicine

George's Marvellous Medicine (known as George's Marvelous Medicine in the US) is a book written by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake.

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Gothic fiction

Gothic fiction, which is largely known by the subgenre of Gothic horror, is a genre or mode of literature and film that combines fiction and horror, death, and at times romance.

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Gríma Wormtongue

Gríma, called (the) Wormtongue, is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.

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Greensleeves

"Greensleeves" is a traditional English folk song and tune, over a ground either of the form called a romanesca; or its slight variant, the passamezzo antico; or the passamezzo antico in its verses and the romanesca in its reprise; or of the Andalusian progression in its verses and the romanesca or passamezzo antico in its reprise.

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Grimble

Grimble is a children's book by Clement Freud, published by Collins in 1968.

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Hamlet

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare at an uncertain date between 1599 and 1602.

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Harper Lee

Nelle Harper Lee (April 28, 1926February 19, 2016), better known by her pen name Harper Lee, was an American novelist widely known for To Kill a Mockingbird, published in 1960.

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Harry Flashman

Sir Harry Paget Flashman is a fictional character created by Thomas Hughes (1822–1896) in the semi-autobiographical Tom Brown's School Days (1857) and later developed by George MacDonald Fraser (1925–2008).

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Harry Potter

Harry Potter is a series of fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling.

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Harry Potter (character)

Harry James Potter is the title character and protagonist of J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is a fantasy book written by British author J. K. Rowling and the seventh and final novel of the Harry Potter series.

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is a fantasy novel written by British author J. K. Rowling and the sixth and penultimate novel in the Harry Potter series.

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Heathcliff (Wuthering Heights)

Heathcliff is a fictional character in Emily Brontë's novel Wuthering Heights.

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Hector

In Greek mythology and Roman mythology, Hector (Ἕκτωρ Hektōr) was a Trojan prince and the greatest fighter for Troy in the Trojan War.

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Hogwarts

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, shortened to Hogwarts, is a fictional British school of magic for students aged eleven to eighteen, and is the primary setting for the first six books in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.

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Homo sapiens

Homo sapiens is the systematic name used in taxonomy (also known as binomial nomenclature) for the only extant human species.

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I Capture the Castle

I Capture the Castle is the first novel by the British author Dodie Smith, written during the Second World War when she and her husband Alec Beesley (also British and a conscientious objector) were living in California.

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Iliad

The Iliad (Ἰλιάς, in Classical Attic; sometimes referred to as the Song of Ilion or Song of Ilium) is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to Homer.

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J. D. Salinger

Jerome David "J.

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J. K. Rowling

Joanne Rowling, ("rolling";Rowling, J.K. (16 February 2007).. Accio Quote (accio-quote.org). Retrieved 28 April 2008. born 31 July 1965), writing under the pen names J. K. Rowling and Robert Galbraith, is a British novelist, philanthropist, film and television producer and screenwriter best known for writing the Harry Potter fantasy series.

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J. R. R. Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, (Tolkien pronounced his surname, see his phonetic transcription published on the illustration in The Return of the Shadow: The History of The Lord of the Rings, Part One. Christopher Tolkien. London: Unwin Hyman, 1988. (The History of Middle-earth; 6). In General American the surname is also pronounced. This pronunciation no doubt arose by analogy with such words as toll and polka, or because speakers of General American realise as, while often hearing British as; thus or General American become the closest possible approximation to the Received Pronunciation for many American speakers. Wells, John. 1990. Longman pronunciation dictionary. Harlow: Longman, 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor who is best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.

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Jack Kirby

Jack Kirby (born Jacob Kurtzberg; August 28, 1917 – February 6, 1994) was an American comic book artist, writer, and editor, widely regarded as one of the medium's major innovators and one of its most prolific and influential creators.

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James and the Giant Peach

James and the Giant Peach is a popular children's novel written in 1961 by British author Roald Dahl.

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Jane Austen

Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.

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Jane Yolen

Jane Hyatt Yolen (born February 11, 1939) is an American writer of fantasy, science fiction, and children's books.

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Jedi

The Jedi are the main protagonists in the Star Wars universe.

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Jennings (novel series)

The Jennings series is a collection of novels written by Anthony Buckeridge (1912–2004), as children's literature, and concern the humorous escapades of J.C.T. Jennings, a schoolboy at Linbury Court preparatory school in England.

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Jessica Mitford

Jessica Lucy 'Decca' Freeman-Mitford (11 September 1917 – 22 July 1996) was an English author, journalist, civil rights activist and political campaigner, and was one of the Mitford sisters.

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Jill Murphy

Jill Murphy (born 5 July 1949) is a British writer and illustrator of children's books, best known for the ''Worst Witch'' novels and the "Large Family" picture books.

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John Bunyan

John Bunyan (baptised November 30, 1628August 31, 1688) was an English writer and Puritan preacher best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress.

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John Carl Buechler

John Carl Buechler (pronounced Beekler) is an American director, actor, and special effects and makeup artist.

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John Granger

John Granger is a speaker and writer whose principal focus is the intersection of literature, faith and culture.

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John Hodge (screenwriter)

John Hodge (born 1964) is a British screenwriter and dramatist, who adapted Irvine Welsh's novel Trainspotting into the script for the film of the same title.

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Joseph Heller

Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923 – December 12, 1999) was an American author of novels, short stories, plays and screenplays.

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Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Julia Scarlett Elizabeth Louis-Dreyfus (born January 13, 1961) is an American actress, comedian, and producer.

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Katherine Mansfield

Kathleen Mansfield Murry (née Beauchamp; 14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a prominent New Zealand modernist short story writer who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield.

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Kenneth Grahame

Kenneth Grahame (8 March 1859 – 6 July 1932) was a Scottish writer, most famous for The Wind in the Willows (1908), one of the classics of children's literature.

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Legal disputes over the Harry Potter series

Since first coming to wide notice in the late 1990s, the Harry Potter book series by J. K. Rowling has engendered a number of legal disputes.

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Legend Entertainment

Legend Entertainment was an American developer of computer games, best known for their complex, distinctive adventure titles throughout the 1990s.

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List of minor 2000 AD stories

This is a list of minor 2000 AD stories.

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List of supporting Harry Potter characters

The following are supporting characters in the Harry Potter series written by J. K. Rowling.

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Lloyd Alexander

Lloyd Chudley Alexander (January 30, 1924 – May 17, 2007) was an American author of more than forty books, primarily fantasy novels for children and young adults.

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Lolita

Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian American novelist Vladimir Nabokov.

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London King's Cross railway station

King's Cross railway station, also known as London King's Cross, is a Central London railway terminus on the northern edge of the city.

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Lord Voldemort

Lord Voldemort (in the films; born Tom Marvolo Riddle) is a fictional character and the main antagonist in J. K. Rowling's series of Harry Potter novels.

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Luke Skywalker

Luke Skywalker is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the original film trilogy of the ''Star Wars'' franchise created by George Lucas.

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Macbeth

Macbeth (full title The Tragedy of Macbeth) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare; it is thought to have been first performed in 1606.

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Macbeth (character)

Lord Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, is the title character and titular main protagonist turned primary antagonist of William Shakespeare's Macbeth (c. 1603–1607).

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Magical creatures in Harry Potter

Magical creatures are a colorful aspect of the fictional wizarding world contained in the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling.

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Magical objects in Harry Potter

The following is a list of magical objects used in the Harry Potter series.

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Magician (fantasy)

An enchanter, enchantress, mage, magician, sorcerer, sorceress, warlock, witch, or wizard, is someone who uses or practices magic derived from supernatural, occult, or arcane sources.

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Magneto (comics)

Magneto is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, commonly in association with the X-Men.

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Manxmouse

Manxmouse: The Mouse Who Knew No Fear is a 1968 children's novel by Paul Gallico.

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Marvel Comics

Marvel Comics is the common name and primary imprint of Marvel Worldwide Inc., formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, a publisher of American comic books and related media.

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Matilda (novel)

Matilda is a book by British writer Roald Dahl.

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Maya Jaggi

Maya Jaggi is a writer, literary critic and editor who, as one of Britain's most respected cultural journalists, is "an influential voice on world literature".

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Merlin

Merlin (Myrddin) is a legendary figure best known as the wizard featured in Arthurian legend and medieval Welsh poetry.

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Ministry of Magic

The Ministry of Magic is the government of the Magical community of Britain in J. K. Rowling's Wizarding World.The magical government in Britain is first mentioned in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the Ministry makes its first proper appearance in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

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Morris dance

Morris dance is a form of English folk dance usually accompanied by music.

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Muggle

In J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, a Muggle is a person who lacks any sort of magical ability and was not born in a magical family.

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MuggleNet

MuggleNet is a Harry Potter fansite founded by Emerson Spartz.

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Mutant (Marvel Comics)

In American comic books published by Marvel Comics, a mutant is a being (usually otherwise human) who possesses a genetic trait called an X-gene that allows the mutant to naturally develop superhuman powers and abilities.

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Nazgûl

The Nazgûl (from Black Speech nazg, "ring", and gûl, "wraith, spirit", possibly related to gul, "sorcery" or a wordplay on "ghoul"), also called Ringwraiths, Ring-wraiths, Black Riders, Dark Riders, the Nine Riders, or simply the Nine, are fictional characters in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium.

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Neil Gaiman

Neil Richard MacKinnon GaimanBorn as Neil Richard Gaiman, with "MacKinnon" added on the occasion of his marriage to Amanda Palmer.

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New Orleans

New Orleans (. Merriam-Webster.; La Nouvelle-Orléans) is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana.

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New York (magazine)

New York is an American biweekly magazine concerned with life, culture, politics, and style generally, and with a particular emphasis on New York City.

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Newsweek

Newsweek is an American weekly magazine founded in 1933.

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Noah Hathaway

Noah Leslie Hathaway (born November 13, 1971), is an American actor and a former teen idol.

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O, The Oprah Magazine

O, The Oprah Magazine, sometimes simply abbreviated to O, is a monthly magazine founded by Oprah Winfrey and Hearst Communications, primarily marketed at women.

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Obi-Wan Kenobi

Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi is a fictional character in the ''Star Wars'' franchise.

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Old Man Willow

Old Man Willow is a fictional character In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, appearing in The Lord of the Rings.

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One Ring

The One Ring is an artefact that appears as the central plot element in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings (1954–55).

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Order of the Phoenix (fictional organisation)

The Order of the Phoenix is a secret organisation in the Harry Potter series of fiction books written by J. K. Rowling.

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Orson Scott Card

Orson Scott Card (born August 24, 1951) is an American novelist, critic, public speaker, essayist, and columnist.

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Over Sea, Under Stone

Over Sea, Under Stone is a contemporary fantasy novel written for children by the English author Susan Cooper, first published in London by Jonathan Cape in 1965.

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Patroclus

In Greek mythology, as recorded in Homer's Iliad, Patroclus (Πάτροκλος, Pátroklos, "glory of the father") was the son of Menoetius, grandson of Actor, King of Opus.

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Paul Gallico

Paul William Gallico (July 26, 1897 – July 15, 1976) was an American novelist, short story and sports writer.

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Plot twist

A plot twist is a literary technique that introduces a radical change in the direction or expected outcome of the plot in a work of fiction.

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Professor X

Professor Charles Francis Xavier (colloquial: Professor X) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics and is the founder and leader of the X-Men.

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Quakers

Quakers (or Friends) are members of a historically Christian group of religious movements formally known as the Religious Society of Friends or Friends Church.

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Red herring

A red herring is something that misleads or distracts from a relevant or important issue.

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Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl (13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a British novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and fighter pilot.

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Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719.

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Roddy Doyle

Roddy Doyle (born 8 May 1958) is an Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter.

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Romanticism

Romanticism (also known as the Romantic era) was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850.

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Ron Weasley

Ronald Bilius "Ron" Weasley is a fictional character in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.

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Royal Society of Literature

The Royal Society of Literature (RSL) is a learned society founded in 1820, by King George IV, to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent".

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Rubeus Hagrid

Rubeus Hagrid is a fictional character in the Harry Potter book series written by J. K. Rowling.

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Sauron

Sauron is the title character and main antagonist of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.

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School story

The school story is a fiction genre centering on older pre-adolescent and adolescent school life, at its most popular in the first half of the twentieth century.

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Severus Snape

Severus Snape is a fictional character in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.

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Shelob

Shelob is a fictional giant spider from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium.

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Sith

The Sith are major antagonists in the space opera franchise Star Wars.

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Sonny Bono

Salvatore Phillip "Sonny" Bono (February 16, 1935 – January 5, 1998) was an American musician, singer-songwriter, producer, actor, and politician who came to fame in partnership with his second wife Cher, as the popular singing duo Sonny & Cher.

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Spanish Civil War

The Spanish Civil War (Guerra Civil Española),Also known as The Crusade (La Cruzada) among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War (Cuarta Guerra Carlista) among Carlists, and The Rebellion (La Rebelión) or Uprising (Sublevación) among Republicans.

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Spellcasting (series)

Spellcasting is a series of three interactive fiction games designed by Steve Meretzky during his time with Legend Entertainment.

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Spellcasting 101: Sorcerers Get All The Girls

The text adventure game Spellcasting 101: Sorcerers Get All The Girls is the first installment of the Spellcasting series created by Steve Meretzky during his time at Legend Entertainment.

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Stan Lee

Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber, December 28, 1922) is an American comic-book writer, editor, film executive producer, actor and publisher.

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Star Wars

Star Wars is an American epic space opera media franchise, centered on a film series created by George Lucas.

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Stella Gibbons

Stella Dorothea Gibbons (5 January 1902 – 19 December 1989) was an English author, journalist, and poet.

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Stephen Fry

Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist.

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Steve Meretzky

Steven Eric Meretzky (born May 1, 1957) Infocom.

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Sunday Independent (Ireland)

The Sunday Independent is an Irish populist Sunday newspaper broadsheet published by Independent News & Media plc, under the control of Denis O'Brien. It is the Sunday edition of the Irish Independent, and maintains an editorial position midway between magazine and tabloid. The Sunday Independent is available on the Irish Newspaper Archives website up to 2004 you will only find "Black-And-White" microfilm pages but since 2005 the pages of the Sunday Independent online in colour.

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Superhero

A superhero (sometimes rendered super-hero or super hero or Super) is a type of heroic stock character, usually possessing supernatural or superhuman powers, who is dedicated to fighting the evil of his/her universe, protecting the public, and usually battling supervillains.

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Susan Cooper

Susan Mary Cooper (born 23 May 1935) is an English author of children's books.

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T. H. White

Terence Hanbury "Tim" White (29 May 1906 – 17 January 1964) was an English author best known for his Arthurian novels, The Once and Future King, first published together in 1958.

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Terry Pratchett

Sir Terence David John Pratchett (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English author of fantasy novels, especially comical works.

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The Book of Three

The Book of Three (1964) is a high fantasy novel by Lloyd Alexander, the first of five volumes in The Chronicles of Prydain.

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The Books of Magic

The Books of Magic is the title of a four-issue English-language comic book mini-series written by Neil Gaiman, published by DC Comics, and later an ongoing series under the imprint Vertigo.

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The Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales (Tales of Caunterbury) is a collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400.

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The Catcher in the Rye

The Catcher in the Rye is a story by J. D. Salinger, first published in serial form in 1945-6 and as a novel in 1951.

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The Chronicles of Narnia

The Chronicles of Narnia is a series of seven fantasy novels by C. S. Lewis.

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The Chronicles of Prydain

The Chronicles of Prydain is a pentalogy of children's high fantasy Bildungsroman novels written by American author Lloyd Alexander.

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The Colour of Magic

The Colour of Magic is a 1983 comic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett, and is the first book of the Discworld series.

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The Commitments (novel)

The Commitments (1987) (originally to be called The Partitions) is a novel by Irish writer Roddy Doyle, and is the first episode in The Barrytown Trilogy.

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The Dallas Morning News

The Dallas Morning News is a daily newspaper serving the Dallas–Fort Worth area of Texas, with an average of 271,900 daily subscribers.

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The Dark Is Rising Sequence

The Dark Is Rising is a series of five contemporary fantasy novels for older children and young adults, written by the English author Susan Cooper and published 1965 to 1977.

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The Force

The Force is a metaphysical and ubiquitous power in the Star Wars fictional universe.

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The Harry Potter Lexicon

The Harry Potter Lexicon is a fan-created online encyclopedia of the Harry Potter series.

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The Hobbit

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again is a children's fantasy novel by English author J. R. R. Tolkien.

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The Leaky Cauldron (website)

The Leaky Cauldron, also called Leaky, TLC, or Leaky News, is a Harry Potter fansite and blog.

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The Little White Horse

The Little White Horse is a low fantasy children's novel by Elizabeth Goudge, first published by the University of London Press in 1946 with illustrations by C. Walter Hodges, and Anne Yvonne Gilbert in 1992.

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The Lord of the Rings

The Lord of the Rings is an epic high fantasy novel written by English author and scholar J. R. R. Tolkien.

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The Mail on Sunday

The Mail on Sunday is a British conservative newspaper, published in a tabloid format.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Once and Future King

The Once and Future King is a work by T. H. White based upon Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory.

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The Pardoner's Tale

The Pardoner's Tale is one of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.

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The Pilgrim's Progress

The Pilgrim's Progress from This World, to That Which Is to Come is a 1678 Christian allegory written by John Bunyan.

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The Scotsman

The Scotsman is a Scottish compact newspaper and daily news website headquartered in Edinburgh.

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The Secret of Platform 13

The Secret of Platform 13 is a children's novel by Eva Ibbotson, and illustrated by Sue Porter, first published in 1994.

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The Seeker (film)

The Seeker (also known as The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising) is a 2007 American family drama-fantasy film adaptation of the second book in the five-book young adult fantasy series The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper.

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The Story of the Treasure Seekers

The Story of the Treasure Seekers is a novel by E. Nesbit.

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The Sunday Times

The Sunday Times is the largest-selling British national newspaper in the "quality press" market category.

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The Sword in the Stone (novel)

The Sword in the Stone is a novel by British writer T. H. White, published in 1938, initially as a stand-alone work but now the first part of a tetralogy, The Once and Future King.

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The Tale Of Two Bad Mice

The Tale of Two Bad Mice is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter, and published by Frederick Warne & Co.

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The Van (novel)

The Van is a 1991 novel by Roddy Doyle and the third novel in The Barrytown Trilogy.

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The Wind in the Willows

The Wind in the Willows is a children's novel by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908.

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The Worst Witch

The Worst Witch is a series of children's books written and illustrated by Jill Murphy.

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Thomas Hughes

Thomas Hughes (20 October 182222 March 1896) was an English lawyer, judge, politician and author.

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Three Witches

The Three Witches or Weird Sisters or Wayward Sisters are characters in William Shakespeare's play Macbeth (c. 1603–1607).

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Timothy Hunter

Timothy Hunter is a fictional character, a comic book sorcerer published by DC Comics.

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To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960.

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Tom Brown's School Days

Tom Brown's School Days (sometimes written Tom Brown's Schooldays, also published under the titles Tom Brown at Rugby, School Days at Rugby, and Tom Brown's School Days at Rugby) is an 1857 novel by Thomas Hughes.

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Tom Brown's Schooldays (2005 film)

Tom Brown's Schooldays is a 2005 British television adaptation of the Thomas Hughes novel of the same name.

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Tom Shippey

Thomas Alan Shippey (born 9 September 1943) is a British scholar and retired professor of Middle and Old English literature, as well as medievalism and modern fantasy and science fiction.

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Troll (film)

Troll is a 1986 American fantasy comedy film directed by John Carl Buechler and produced by Charles Band of Empire Pictures, starring Noah Hathaway, Michael Moriarty, Shelley Hack, Jenny Beck, and Sonny Bono.

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University of Missouri

The University of Missouri (also, Mizzou, or MU) is a public, land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri.

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Unseen University

The Unseen University (UU) is a school of wizardry in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of fantasy novels.

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Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (October 21, 1929 – January 22, 2018) was an American novelist.

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Victorian era

In the history of the United Kingdom, the Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.

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Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Влади́мир Влади́мирович Набо́ков, also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin; 2 July 1977) was a Russian-American novelist, poet, translator and entomologist.

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Walt Disney

Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901December 15, 1966) was an American entrepreneur, animator, voice actor and film producer.

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Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. v. RDR Books

Warner Bros.

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Welsh mythology

Welsh mythology consists of both folk traditions developed in Wales, and traditions developed by the Celtic Britons elsewhere before the end of the first millennium.

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William Penn

William Penn (14 October 1644 – 30 July 1718) was the son of Sir William Penn, and was an English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker, and founder of the English North American colony the Province of Pennsylvania.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

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Wired (magazine)

Wired is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.

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Wizard's Hall

Wizard's Hall is a 1991 fantasy novel by Jane Yolen.

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Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë's only novel, was published in 1847 under the pseudonym "Ellis Bell".

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X-Men

The X-Men is a team of fictional superheroes appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

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Young Sherlock Holmes

Young Sherlock Holmes (also known as Young Sherlock Holmes and the Pyramid of Fear) is a 1985 American mystery adventure film directed by Barry Levinson and written by Chris Columbus, based on the characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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1 Corinthians 15

1 Corinthians 15 is the fifteenth chapter of the First Epistle to the Corinthians by Paul the Apostle.

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2000 AD (comics)

2000 AD is a weekly British science fiction-orientated comic.

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