![Harry Potter plagiarism lawsuit could be billion-dollar case, says claimant | JK Rowling | The Guardian Harry Potter plagiarism lawsuit could be billion-dollar case, says claimant | JK Rowling | The Guardian](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Books/Pix/pictures/2008/07/21/jkrowling300.jpg?width=1200&height=630&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&overlay-width=100p&overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctYWdlLTIwMTAucG5n&s=44832532d424f26f54d59ab0d552e18d)
Harry Potter plagiarism lawsuit could be billion-dollar case, says claimant | JK Rowling | The Guardian
Why do people say that J.K. Rowling copied The Lord of the Rings when the high fantasy genre itself is a big old copy and paste of The Lord Of The Rings? -
![Harry Potter fan, 14-year-old Matthew Lawson, from Fife, on the front row at the Lyon and Turnbull auction house, Edinburgh, as his signed first edition book of Harry Potter And The Chamber Harry Potter fan, 14-year-old Matthew Lawson, from Fife, on the front row at the Lyon and Turnbull auction house, Edinburgh, as his signed first edition book of Harry Potter And The Chamber](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2D32TWW/harry-potter-fan-14-year-old-matthew-lawson-from-fife-on-the-front-row-at-the-lyon-and-turnbull-auction-house-edinburgh-as-his-signed-first-edition-book-of-harry-potter-and-the-chamber-of-secrets-was-being-auctioned-the-book-which-is-signed-by-the-author-jk-rowling-was-valued-at-1500-a-first-edition-of-jrr-tolkien-s-the-lord-of-the-rings-was-also-up-for-auction-2D32TWW.jpg)
Harry Potter fan, 14-year-old Matthew Lawson, from Fife, on the front row at the Lyon and Turnbull auction house, Edinburgh, as his signed first edition book of Harry Potter And The Chamber
![Queen's Platinum Jubilee: JK Rowling and JRR Tolkien missed off BBC's list of 70 Commonwealth authors | The Independent Queen's Platinum Jubilee: JK Rowling and JRR Tolkien missed off BBC's list of 70 Commonwealth authors | The Independent](https://static.independent.co.uk/2022/04/19/09/pjimage%20%2843%29.jpg?quality=75&width=1200&auto=webp)
Queen's Platinum Jubilee: JK Rowling and JRR Tolkien missed off BBC's list of 70 Commonwealth authors | The Independent
![I've seen people make LotR movie specific comparisons to the earlier HP books! Like JK Rowling got into a time machine, watched Lord of the Rings, and then copied it into HP I've seen people make LotR movie specific comparisons to the earlier HP books! Like JK Rowling got into a time machine, watched Lord of the Rings, and then copied it into HP](https://preview.redd.it/lt82ags0sw251.jpg?auto=webp&s=84273dce2b3dad10b125b078405a4536cc432ddf)