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Harry Potter or The Lord of the Rings?

Harry Potter 11

  • Hermione Granger Right Wrong

    A brilliant Gryffindor student and Harry and Ron's best friend, she knows the Hogwarts library better than anyone. Born to Muggle parents, she proves that talent has nothing to do with blood, and saves her friends more than once thanks to her reading.

  • Harry Potter Right Wrong

    The Boy Who Lived, with his lightning-shaped scar, is the hero of J. K. Rowling's saga. An orphan raised by the Dursleys, he learns at eleven that he is a wizard and enters Hogwarts, where he faces Voldemort, the sworn enemy who killed his parents.

  • Ron Weasley Right Wrong

    Harry's loyal friend, the sixth child of a red-haired wizarding family that isn't rich but is very close. A formidable chess player, he becomes Keeper of the Gryffindor Quidditch team and marries Hermione after the Battle of Hogwarts.

  • Albus Dumbledore Right Wrong

    Headmaster of Hogwarts with a long white beard, considered the greatest wizard of his time. He defeated the dark wizard Grindelwald in 1945 and guides Harry against Voldemort. He is often confused with Gandalf, yet he carries a wand, not a staff.

  • Severus Snape Right Wrong

    Potions master at Hogwarts and head of Slytherin house, he appears to loathe Harry. His true loyalty remains a mystery until the end of the saga, when we discover his love for Lily, Harry's mother. "Always."

  • Voldemort Right Wrong

    The dark wizard "who must not be named", born Tom Riddle. He split his soul into several Horcruxes to cheat death and spread terror across the wizarding world, until his final duel with Harry in the Great Hall of Hogwarts.

  • Hagrid Right Wrong

    A half-giant with a heart of gold, Hogwarts gamekeeper and later teacher of Care of Magical Creatures. He is the one who collects Harry from the Dursleys and tells him: "You're a wizard, Harry". He adores dangerous beasts, dragons and giant spiders included.

  • Bellatrix Lestrange Right Wrong

    A fanatical Death Eater and Voldemort's most faithful lieutenant, cousin of Sirius Black and aunt of Draco Malfoy. After escaping from Azkaban, she kills Sirius at the Ministry of Magic, before being defeated by Molly Weasley at the Battle of Hogwarts.

  • Draco Malfoy Right Wrong

    A Slytherin student from a wealthy pure-blood family and Harry's lifelong rival at Hogwarts. The son of a Death Eater, he is given a mission by Voldemort that is far beyond him: to kill Dumbledore. Behind the arrogance, he is not the monster he would like to be.

  • Dobby Right Wrong

    A house-elf serving the Malfoy family, he first tries to stop Harry returning to Hogwarts in order to protect him. Harry frees him with a sock slipped inside an old diary. Loyal to the end, he dies rescuing his friends from Malfoy Manor.

  • Dementor Right Wrong

    A hooded creature that feeds on human happiness and plunges anyone who comes near into despair. Guards of Azkaban prison, Dementors are driven off with the Patronus charm. Their kiss sucks out the soul. They are not Nazgûl!

Lord of the Rings 11

  • Gandalf Right Wrong

    A wizard with a pointed hat, a long staff and a grey beard, he guides the Fellowship of the Ring. After falling to the Balrog in the Mines of Moria, he returns more powerful as Gandalf the White. His line "You shall not pass!" has become legendary.

  • Frodo Baggins Right Wrong

    A hobbit of the Shire charged with carrying the One Ring to Mount Doom, in the heart of Mordor, to destroy it. Bilbo's nephew and heir, he leaves his peaceful Shire with his gardener Sam, and the burden of the Ring marks him for ever.

  • Aragorn Right Wrong

    A Ranger of the North known as Strider and heir of Isildur, he long hides his royal birth. A member of the Fellowship of the Ring, he eventually takes the throne of Gondor under the name Elessar and marries the elf Arwen.

  • Legolas Right Wrong

    An elven archer from Mirkwood, son of King Thranduil and member of the Fellowship of the Ring. Keen-eyed and never missing a shot, he forms an unlikely friendship with the dwarf Gimli, though their two peoples have distrusted each other for centuries.

  • Galadriel Right Wrong

    The Lady of Lothlórien, one of the oldest and most powerful Elves of Middle-earth. She bears one of the three elven rings and gives Frodo a phial of light. Tempted by the One Ring, she refuses to take it.

  • Sauron Right Wrong

    The Dark Lord, who secretly forged the One Ring to rule all the other rings of power. Deprived of his body, he is now no more than an eye of fire atop Barad-dûr, scanning Middle-earth from Mordor in search of his Ring.

  • Gollum Right Wrong

    A former hobbit named Sméagol, consumed by five centuries spent with the Ring, which he calls "my precious". Frodo's guide, then his betrayer, it is nonetheless he who, without meaning to, sends the Ring into the fires of Mount Doom. Nothing to do with Dobby!

  • Bilbo Baggins Right Wrong

    Frodo's uncle, the hobbit who found the Ring in Gollum's cave, an adventure told in The Hobbit. Having set off without a handkerchief with thirteen dwarves and Gandalf for the Lonely Mountain, he comes back rich, and far less respectable in his neighbours' eyes.

  • Nazgûl Right Wrong

    The nine Black Riders, former kings of Men enslaved by the rings Sauron gave them. Faceless wraiths, they hunt the Ring on horseback, then on winged beasts. Their leader, the Witch-king of Angmar, cannot be killed "by the hand of man".

  • Sam Gamgee Right Wrong

    Frodo's gardener and faithful friend, he follows him all the way to Mordor. He is the one who keeps him on the right path and carries him, quite literally, up the slopes of Mount Doom. For Tolkien himself, Sam was the true hero of the story.

  • Gimli Right Wrong

    A dwarf, son of Glóin, chosen to represent his people in the Fellowship of the Ring. Axe in hand, he keeps a tally of slain enemies with Legolas, and ends up admiring Galadriel so much that he asks her for a lock of her hair.

Magic wand or wizard's staff? Hogwarts or Middle-earth? These two sagas have captivated millions of readers and viewers, and their characters are sometimes more alike than you'd think: wise old men with white beards, dark lords, small creatures with big ears and hooded figures. For each character, say whether they come from the world of J. K. Rowling or that of J. R. R. Tolkien. Can you tell them apart without getting your cloaks in a twist?

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Frequently asked questions

Do the characters come from the books or the films?

All the characters come from the novels: J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, published from 1997 to 2007, and J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, with The Hobbit in 1937 and The Lord of the Rings in 1954 and 1955. The films, released between 2001 and 2014, then made them famous all over the world.

Why do the characters of the two sagas look so alike?

Both authors drew on the same sources: Norse and Celtic mythology, Arthurian legend and European folk tales. Tolkien, an Oxford professor, shaped modern fantasy, and Rowling grew up with his books. Hence the wizards, creatures and magical objects that echo each other from one saga to the other.

What is fantasy?

It's a literary genre in which magic and the supernatural are part of the world, with no scientific explanation. Tolkien set its rules in the 1950s, with his maps, invented languages and peoples. Harry Potter is closer to urban fantasy: magic exists, hidden within our own world.

Why do some names differ from one language to another?

Translators often adapt names: in French, Snape became Rogue and Baggins became Sacquet. Tolkien even wrote a guide for his translators, explaining which names should be translated. This quiz uses the original English names, the ones you know from the books and films.

Photo credits

Hermione Granger : © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. ; Harry Potter : © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. ; Ron Weasley : © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. ; Albus Dumbledore : © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. ; Severus Snape : © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. ; Voldemort : © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. ; Hagrid : © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. ; Bellatrix Lestrange : © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. ; Draco Malfoy : © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. ; Gandalf : © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. ; Frodo Baggins : © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. ; Aragorn : © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. ; Legolas : © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. ; Galadriel : © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. ; Sauron : © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. ; Gollum : © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. ; Bilbo Baggins : © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. ; Nazgûl : © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. ; Dobby : © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. ; Sam Gamgee : © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. ; Gimli : © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. ; Dementor : © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.