Harry Potter vs. Lord of the Rings Quiz

Answer: 33

Both characters' birthdays were the ultimate turning points which set events in motion.

Harry Potter, who is documented as having been born on 31st of July, 1980, finds out, on the night of his 11th birthday, that he is a wizard. This is after Hagrid, the Hogwarts Gamekeeper, has to deliver Harry's acceptance letter to an island where Vernon Dursley, Harry's uncle, is attempting to hide from all the letters being delivered. This point, at which Harry's letter is delivered to him, starts a "chain reaction", whereby Harry is introduced to the wizarding world and goes to Hogwarts for the first time. It is also the start of many grand adventures with his two best friends, Ron and Hermione, which have the ultimate goal of defeating Lord Voldemort.

Similarly, Frodo's adventure is "sparked" on his 33rd birthday. Frodo Baggins is documented as having been born on the 22nd of September in the year of 2968 in the Third Age. Frodo Baggins and his cousin (sometimes called "Uncle"), Bilbo Baggins, share their birthday. On Frodo's 33rd and Bilbo's 111th birthday, in the chapter "A Long-Expected Party," when Bilbo disappears from Hobbiton, Frodo inherits the One Ring. Although the One Ring remains hidden for the next 17 years in Hobbiton (which is not shown in the movie), it is what ultimately causes Frodo to go on his long journey to Mordor. So his actual journey to Mordor starts when he is 50 years old.

Just as in Harry Potter, Frodo's ultimate goal is to destroy the One Ring in order for the Dark Lord Sauron to be destroyed along with it.

It is interesting to note that 11 and 33 are both multiples of 11, and that Bilbo Baggins was 111 years old, exactly 100 years older than Harry, when we are first introduced to him in "The Lord of the Rings" series.

Another parallel that can be drawn between Harry and Frodo is that they are both orphans sent to live with relatives. Harry's parents were killed by Lord Voldemort when he was only 1 year old. Thereafter, he was thereafter sent to live with the Dursleys. Frodo's parents were killed in a boating accident when he was 12. After living with Brandybucks for a few years, Frodo came under the guardianship of Bilbo Baggins.

Answer: They inherited it

Both protagonists inherited their invisibility device. In Frodo's case, it was the One Ring, which turned out to do more bad for him than good, and which he inherited from Bilbo Baggins. In Harry's case, it was the Invisibility Cloak, which he inherited from his father, James Potter, after it had been in Dumbledore's possession for a certain amount of time.

The One Ring, which is the "centre" of the story in "The Lord of the Rings" was found by Bilbo Baggins in Gollum's cave in the book "The Hobbit", also by J.R.R Tolkien. Aside from having the title "The One Ring", it is known as "The Ring of Power," and even has its very own rhyme:

"Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie."
[Taken from "The Lord of the Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkien, Chapter 2, "The Shadow of the Past."]

The whole point in the story of "The Lord of the Rings" is for Frodo to get to Mount Doom in Mordor, and destroy the One Ring so it will never fall back into the hands of its old master, Lord Sauron. Unfortunately, the Ring has something of "a life of its own", and begins to corrupt Frodo. It also gives the power of invisibility to the one who wears it, but this also means that Sauron's Great Eye would be upon that person, and would call the Ring-wraiths to it.

Harry Potter's invisibility device is far less sinister than the One Ring. It used to belong to his father, and was sent to him with an anonymous note on Christmas morning during his first year at Hogwarts. We later learn that it was Dumbledore who sent it to him. Using this cloak, Harry has been able to sneak into Hogsmeade, into the Forbidden Forest, and around Hogwarts Castle. It has been an invaluable tool to Harry, and, unlike the One Ring, has no side effects to using it.

Answer: Unicorns

In "Harry Potter", Fang is Rubeus Hagrid's ever-faithful dog, which also accompanies Harry and Ron into the Forbidden Forest in "The Chamber of Secrets". Despite the fact that Fang is a rather large dog, he comes across as being a bit of a sissy, and does not seem very brave in the books.

In "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, Fang belongs to the hobbit, Farmer Maggot (he has three dogs- Fang, Grip and Wolf). Farmer Maggot, despite the movie portrayal, actually gets on fairly well with Frodo, and told the Black Riders nothing about the Bagginses when they showed up asking about them.

In "Harry Potter", the goblins are the creatures that guard the wizard bank, Gringotts. According to Hagrid, they are not creatures that you would want to cross, and that anyone who wanted to break into Gringotts would have to be mad. They are described as having clever faces and long fingers.

In "The Lord of the Rings", the goblins are not talked about too much, but they are known as one of the less nice races of Middle-earth, who lived in caves. It is also said that Orcs are descended from the goblins.

In "Harry Potter", there are three different types of trolls: mountain trolls, forest trolls and river trolls, with the most dangerous being the mountain troll. In "The Philosopher's Stone", Professor Quirrell lets a cave troll into the castle to create a distraction so that he can get to the Philosopher's stone. The troll wanders into the Girls' bathroom, where Hermione has been crying after Ron made a nasty comment about her. It attacks her, and it is only thanks to Harry's and Ron's interference that she is saved from death.

Similarly, in "The Fellowship of the Ring," a cave troll attacks the fellowship in the Mines of Moria, along with Orcs. The fellowship only narrowly escapes this attack after a fight.

Unicorns only appear in the "Harry Potter" series, and appear nowhere in "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy. However, all the other characters/ creatures are common to both sets of books, as shown above.

Answer: No

No. While Harry's scar is given to him by Lord Voldemort, Frodo's is given to him by the Witch-king of Angmar who, while evil, is not actually "the Dark Lord". The "Dark Lord" in "The Lord of the Rings" is Sauron.

This question, aside from bringing up the subject of scars, also brings up the similarities between the villains in the stories: Lord Voldemort and Lord Sauron. Both are called "The Dark Lord" (Voldemort specifically by his followers) and both are trying to return to power and destroy the one person who can "save the world", as it were.

As far as the scars go, Harry's scar is on his forehead and is in the shape of a lightning bolt. It was given to him when he was 1 year old on the night of Halloween by Lord Voldemort at Godric's Hollow. The scar was caused when Voldemort attempted to perform the Avada Kedavra curse (the killing curse) on Harry, but it backfired and turned Voldemort instead into something less than human. Harry's scar has always let him know when Voldemort was feeling a particularly powerful emotion, such as anger, and always hurts when Voldemort was near him.

Frodo's scar is slightly more straightforward and less mysterious. It was given to him by the Witch-king of Angmar, the leader of the Nazgūl, with a Morgul blade at a disused watchtower on Weathertop. He is then taken to Rivendell, where he is healed by Elrond.

As it wasn't actually Sauron who stabbed Frodo, it cannot be said that it was the "ultimate" villain who gave him his scar.

Answer: Merry and Pippin

Fred and George Weasley are most easily likened to Merry and Pippin (i.e. their full names are Meriadoc Brandybuck and Peregrin Took). While they are only slightly mischievous in the books, they are shown in the movie as being real troublemakers.

Merry, described in the book as being one of Frodo's closest and most loyal friends, is also related to him somewhere down the line, and is also the less troublesome of the twosome. He is probably the brightest and most organised of all the hobbits. He is captured along with Pippin by Orcs, but escapes into Fangorn Forest, where he meets Treebeard, who gives him Ent-draught. The latter causes him to grow quite a few inches and he beats the record of Bullroarer Took, who was "three inches taller than he was supposed to be", when he returns to the Shire. He also is engaged in fighting at the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, under the care of Eowyn.

Pippin is the youngest of all the Hobbits who set out from the Shire (he has not yet come of age, which Hobbits do at 33), and who eventually joins the fellowship. He has a rather unusual "talent" for finding and getting into trouble, but has a little difficulty getting out of it again. Like Merry, he is also incredibly loyal to Frodo, and is also captured by a band of Orcs sent out by Saruman at Amon-Hen (he is also the one who is smart enough to drop his Elven brooch so that Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli can follow the trail). He is also the one, who in "The Fellowship of the Ring" wakes up the Balrog in the Mines of Moria, which caused Gandalf to call him "fool of a Took," and somehow, that name just seemed to stick.

Fred and George Weasley are the third and fourth youngest children of the Weasley clan, and are two years older than Harry, Ron and Hermione. It is almost impossible to write up separate "bios" for Fred and George, as they are inseparable, and are always together. They are a mischievous pair, who in "The Goblet of Fire", "The Order of the Phoenix", and "The Half-Blood Prince" are seen to be selling joke items (in "The Half-Blood Prince", we actually see that they have opened their joke shop, "Weasley's Wizard Wheezes"). They are both members of the original Gryffindor Quidditch team, playing as the Beaters. In a way that is similar to Merry and Pippin, they also love a joke or two from time to time, and have a curious knack for finding trouble, but still remain completely loyal to the main character of the story.

Answer: Bowtruckles

Ents, in "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, are guardians of the forest, who are supposed to protect the trees from all perils, such as Orcs. The Ents also look like trees, and more specifically the trees that they look after.

The most well-known Ent would have to be Treebeard, who also happens to be the oldest living Ent. We first meet Treebeard in the fourth chapter entitled "Treebeard" in "The Two Towers", the second book in the trilogy. Treebeard is described as "...a large Man-like, almost Troll-like, figure, at least fourteen foot high, very sturdy, with a tall head, and hardly any neck," and basically just a very Tree-like character. He picks Merry and Pippin up in Fanghorn Forest. Treebeard becomes a very likeable character, and plays a part in the defeat of Isengard.

In the "Harry Potter" series, we are first introduced to Bowtruckles in Chapter 13 of "The Order of the Phoenix" titled "Detention with Dolores". In a Care of Magical Creatures lesson with Professor Grubbly-Plank, Hermione correctly identifies "tiny pixie-ish creatures made of wood, each with knobbly brown arms and legs, two twiglike fingers at the end of each hand and a funny flat barklike face in which a pair of beetle brown eyes glittered."

Bowtruckles, like Ents, are tree guardians which live in wand-trees and eat woodlice, or fairy eggs when they can get their hands on them. When one wants to retrieve wood from a wand tree, it would be a good idea to have a plate of woodlice on hand, as, even though they don't look all that dangerous, they are not nice little creatures when they are angered, and will try to gouge out human eyes with their sharp little fingers. In the book "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" (really written by J.K Rowling for money to be donated to the fund, Comic Relief,) Bowtruckles are given a Ministry of Magic Classification of XX (harmless/may be domesticated).

In "Harry Potter", we don't actually meet individual Bowtruckles, as we do in "The Lord of the Rings". However, while there is a remarkable size difference, in that Ents are documented as being able to reach up to 15 feet in height, and Bowtruckles are commonly 8 inches long, both are unmistakably tree guardians.

Answer: They have all of these things in common

Yep, these two dark and powerful objects have all the above-mentioned characteristics in common. However, in the case of "Harry Potter", the Horcrux ring obtained from Morfin Gaunt is not the only dark object into which Voldemort placed a piece of his soul (the only other definite Horcrux that we know of is Tom Riddle's old diary).

The Horcruxes in the "Harry Potter" series are objects into which Voldemort places pieces of his soul, in order to try and reach his goal of immortality. It is believed (as it was suggested in the books) that he has seven pieces of his soul floating around (six Horcruxes, as well as the piece of soul that is still inside him). Dumbledore explained in "The Half-Blood Prince" that the only way to create a Horcrux is to commit the most atrocious act of all: that is to kill someone.

It is believed that Voldemort only made his Horcruxes from important deaths, and that Harry's death was going to be made into his final Horcrux. The Horcrux that was stored in Marvolo Gaunt's ring (it was passed down to Morfin), caused great harm to come to Dumbledore's hand in "The Half-Blood Prince", a few weeks before he came to pick Harry up from Privet Drive, as there was believed to be a curse upon it, that would hurt anyone who tried to destroy it. It caused Dumbledore's hand to take on a "withered, blackened and burnt look" which remained tender throughout the book, and which he could no longer use. In the upcoming "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", it is believed that Harry's attempts to destroy all of Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes will play a big part of the story.

The One Ring, which belonged to the Dark Lord Sauron in "The Lord of the Rings" can possibly be called more evil than Voldemort's Horcruxes, as this thing seems to actually think for itself! Instead of physically hurting the one who tries to destroy it, or who keeps possession of it, it corrupts them and tries to turn them into something evil and something that is completely out of character for them.

That said, without actually hurting the wearer by itself, it has always caused some form of injury to come to the one who bears it. For example, Isildur, who instead of destroying the Ring, allowed it to corrupt him so much that he refused to throw it into the fires of Mount Doom when he had the chance, and instead kept it, only to be attacked by a band of Orcs and killed; Gollum, was "mutated" one might say by the Ring; and Frodo, who was stabbed on Weathertop Hill because he was the bearer of the Ring. Even though it did have the one "perk" of being able to turn someone invisible (although they could then be seen by Sauron), it ultimately caused more evil than good in the story.

In the end, neither of these two things are objects that would you would like to find in your possession.

Answer: Shelob and Aragog

In "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, we first encounter Shelob in "The Two Towers" (in the movie, it was "The Return of the King"), when Gollum betrays the two hobbits, Sam and Frodo, and leads them into her lair. He hopes that she will kill the two hobbits and he will have the One Ring ("my preciousssss!") all to himself again. Shelob had met Gollum before, the last time he left Mordor, and had spared his life. The deal Gollum made with her was that he would bring her food.

Gollum leads Frodo and Sam into Shelob's lair, as they attempt to reach Mount Doom in Mordor to destroy the One Ring. Shelob attacked and paralysed Frodo. Sam, distraught at the thought that Frodo had been killed by Shelob, fought back with Frodo's sword, Sting. Eventually the spider impaled herself upon this sword and then rushed back into her lair. After this, Sam takes the One Ring, thinking that Frodo is dead. It is only when the Orcs come that Sam discovers that Frodo is, in fact, still alive. Shelob's final fate is not known.

In "Harry Potter," we meet Aragog in "The Chamber of Secrets", when Harry and Ron go into the Forbidden Forest, in order to try to prove Hagrid's innocence with regards to the re-opening of the Chamber of Secrets. Aragog is an acromantula. According to the book "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them", acromantula have a Ministry of Magic classification of XXXXX, meaning it is a known wizard killer and is impossible to be trained or domesticated. Hagrid was discovered trying to raise Aragog in the Hogwarts castle when he was in his third year. He was expelled because people thought that it was Aragog that had been harming the students. Hagrid kept Aragog in the Forbidden Forest, and found him a wife, Mosag. Because of this, Aragog remained grateful to Hagrid, and didn't allow his offspring to eat him. However, when Harry and Ron went to talk to Aragog, Aragog didn't extend the same courtesy to them. They narrowly escaped death after being rescued by the blue Ford Anglia.

Answer: Peter and Grima

Both of these characters are evil, treacherous little horrors that you would never ever want to meet, as both are slippery third-wheels.

Grima Wormtongue is a character in "The Lord of the Rings." He was the son of Galmod, who began to secretly work for the White Wizard, Saruman. He earned his nickname of "Wormtongue" by the fact that J.R.R. Tolkien included a description of him in the book, saying he had a "long pale tongue". Further, no one in Edoras liked him, as all he did was spread malicious lies and manipulate King Théoden's mind into believing that he was a weak king, and that Wormtongue was in fact the only person who remained loyal to him, when it was actually quite the opposite. Grima left Théoden when he was given the choice to ride into battle with him, or be banished into exile. He is eventually killed by Hobbit arrows when he tries to flee from the Shire after slitting Saruman's throat. Overall, he was an evil and traitorous little man.

Peter Pettigrew, or "Wormtail," is the character from "Harry Potter." He, like Wormtongue, is a murdering and horrible man, who rightly deserves his nickname of "wormtail". Although it is never directly said, most people assume that he received his nickname due to the fact that he was an Animagus that could transform into a rat. His nickname was derived from the long, "worm-like" tail he would have had. Wormtail is disguised as Ron's rat, Scabbers, for all of "The Philosopher's Stone," "The Chamber of Secrets," and for the most part of "The Prisoner of Azkaban," where his true identity and loyalties are revealed. Despite the popular belief by the majority of the wizarding world, it was actually Wormtail, and not Sirius Black, who betrayed Harry's parents to Lord Voldemort. Unfortunately, Wormtail evades Azkaban yet again by transforming into a rat whilst the group is occupied with Lupin's transformation into a werewolf, and he returns to his old master. In "The Goblet of Fire," he helps Voldemort to get back his own body. What is going to happen to Pettigrew in the new "Harry Potter" book is not clear, although many believe that he will pay his debt back to Harry, for saving his life in "The Prisoner of Azkaban."

Answer: Ring-wraiths

These guys have got to be THE creepiest things I've ever come across in ANY book (I've never been a great lover of hoods).

In "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, there are nine Nazgūl, or Ring-wraiths. Other names used for them are the Nine Riders, the Black Riders, the Dark Riders, the Nine, or, by the Orcs, the Shriekers. The Nazgūl are led by the Witch-King of Angmar. They are called to the One Ring and tasked with destroying the one who carries it. The Nazgūl were originally nine powerful men to whom rings of power were given. The rings ultimately corrupted them and turned them into immortal terrors.

The creepy hooded creatures in "Harry Potter" are called Dementors. They are the creatures that guard the wizard prison, Azkaban. They are awful creatures, as when they are near you, you get a feeling that you will never ever be cheerful again. They also force you to relive your worst memories and, due to this, they greatly affect Harry, to the point that he actually faints, as he has a great many horrors in his past. The worst thing that Dementors can possibly do is suck out your soul, which will leave you less than human. In the beginning of "The Half-Blood Prince," we discover that the Dementors have left Azkaban, and have gone to join Voldemort's side.

Overall, you wouldn't want to cross either of these terrifying hooded creatures (thank goodness we live in the real world, eh?).