This is just off the top of my head, but I can think of more if you'd like. Alas, it saddens me that it is an insult to one of the founding works of modern fantasy to compare a thing to it, but it is what it is, I guess.

And I am always led to this Bible quote: There's nothing new under the sun.

Gollum was the other side of pure obession and hate

moving away to avoid the earhquakes?  wow, that's lame...  LOL

Yeah, but I could still imagine Edmund putting on his best lolcat face,then asking the witch, "I can haz cheezburger?"

I'm a pretty big Beatle fan, and I would have to say that legend has to be a sorry rumor.  However, it does explain how bad Yellow Submarine ended up becoming.  It's the worst thing the Beatles ever did, include breaking up...  IMO.

I think LoS rips more off from Peter Jacksons overall illustration of the three modern films than the actual story.  I think Disney's Chronicles of Narnia would be a lot different had Lord of the Rings not been illustrated into the three films.  It would still be based from C. S. Lewis' books, but it would lack the luster that, before LotR's time, was considered a movie-making risk. (e. g. huge CGI detail in scenery, long effective pauses in the storyline that enhance emotion, and keeping elements of the original author's true--even for book to film.)

Coincidentally, I have a paper due soon, and the topic is C.S. Lewis.  In research, I found that Lewis did not like Disney Co.  Also, before production of "The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe" they considered modernizing and Americanizing the story.  (the rumor was that the kids moved from California because of the earthquakes rather than from London because of the bombings, and the witch tempted Edmund with cheeseburgers, rather than Turkish delight)  It wasn't until after the faithful adaptations of Harry Potter, that the LOTR trilogy was adapted, and after both of those successful illustrations, Disney decided to keep Narnia accurate to the books.  I guess we could thank J. K. Rowling for how DOTD came out.

Another thing I learned in my C.S. Lewis research, is that, according to legend, The Beatles were considering making a Lord of the Rings adaptation, with them as the voices.  Instead they made Yellow Submarine.  I'm sorta' disappointed because I'd have liked to see their adaptation, but Yellow Submarine is cool too.

I agree that DOTD copies more of Peter Jackson's directing.  I see a lot of things copied from Harry Potter, Star Wars, and LOTR.

LoS really does get a lot of things from LotR (and knock offs of it, like Dragonlance; this much is admitted by Mike Graham himself). It also does a fair bit of ripping off from the LotR games, from what I've heard, right down to the Golem being a Balrog.

But it's not just LotR that LoS rips off. It takes a lot of its story from Star Wars, in particular the new trilogy, as well.

Smegal and cynder...nope don't see it.

It's pure luck Wood was in the movies as he seems to be a decent voice actor= 9,Happy feet etc.

However Warfang is pretty much minas trinith

What best fits Cynder then??  Arwen? LOL

It's pure luck Wood was in the movies as he seems to be a decent voice actor= 9,Happy feet etc.

However Warfang is pretty much minas trinith

I would have liked it to be closer to the LOTR story.  Just make it an easier to follow version with dragons and anthropomorphic animals instead of hobbits and the other human-like creatures.  It should have the official Tolkien seal so people consider it a companion series or spinoff, rather than shameless knockoff.

I don't disagree with you, but Tolkien would have never wanted that.  Rule number one is don't tamper with or recreate his stories as it is a disgrace Tolkien's work.