The Impact of Shahnameh and Ancient Themes on Characters in Harry Potter and Lords of Rings

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Khosro Mahmoudi (Department of Persian Language and Literature, Arsanjan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arsanjan, Iran)

Writers, scholars, and screenwriters have managed to write many stories in the form of comic stripe or illustrated stories inspired by mythological elements. Besides, directors use such stories to make fictional and fantastic stories. In his book, Literary Adoption for Children and Teenagers’ Cinema, Akbarlu writes “Mythology is the source of all literary narratives and it involves the employment of eternal themes which correspond to the creativity. Do the themes such as disposition to perpetuity, justice, anger, rightness, order, love … become old and mundane? There is a secret behind the endlessness of Shahnameh and other old texts which cannot be revealed except one is linked to such a secret. Shahnameh as literary work containing old traditions of the deep-rooted Iranian nation has not been investigated seriously and systematically (Akbarlu, 2005; 297).