Huh turns out JK is even less creative than we thought and maybe/prolly cribbed off some (A LOT) of the concepts from Ursula K Leguin's works.
Huh turns out JK is even less creative than we thought and maybe/prolly cribbed off some (A LOT) of the concepts from Ursula K Leguin's works.
I've seen a lot of "JK Rowling Plagiarized..." lines that (a) really do not get the concept of plagarization and (b) don't seem to understand how banal the idea of "Wizard High School" was even back in the late 90s.
Before that even. That basically the setting for the Xmen. Weird boarding schools would be even more familiar to a brit
Yeah, heck, even the universities. You get why His Dark Materials was written because I swear Oxford exists in another reality and the bus from london switches over in the last 20 min.
Plagiarized? Nah, however I hate how JK is attributed as the "creator" of the wizard school concept in fiction when she clearly was not, and has not even offered resistance to that idea (i.e. liberals when they don't want to accept fiction like any field is built on the efforts and labor of multitudes).
Yeah, that shit is annoying, but more because of the way people incredulously buy into it.
Honestly goes to show how major corporate book and media entities were able to so effectively shove that shit into us as kids that we always have that subconscious thought on JK as "creator of wizard school"
I predated HP by a decade or two, so I must have missed that. LotR was always the benchmark for fantasy for me.
Yeah it's more for the millennials cuss that shit was everywhere (the author of this vid also has another great vid on the corporate media blitz on HP which she goes into detail on).
I was in middle school in the mid '90s and my buddy an I tried to write a fantasy novel, the first half of the book was set in a school for magic users. Every idea we had for that story was blatantly stolen from some other book we'd read.
I mean, Earthsea is from the late 60s/early 70s though.