I am reading the Iliad (the story of Troy by Homer) right now and I see some similarities also. One of them is the way the story is writen. ( I am reading the translated version, not the poem version) I can't remember what names exactly but there are names in the Iliad that are very similar to those in LOTR. Shakespeare must have been inspired by it too for there is a Laretes in both Hamlet and in the Illiad.
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Legolas 20 ales later: I feel something, a slight tingling in my fingers. I think it's affecting me.
Figwit on his name: Are you suggesting that I have the wit of a fig?
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