I am reminded of a story about Freud. A fellow practitioner had come to Freud with a difficult case. Freud listened to the account and immediately diagnosed the problem.
The fellow practitioner asked: How can you be so sure without seeing the patient? Freud replied: I have seen a thousand cases like it.
The fellow responded: I suppose you have now seen a thousand and one.
I guess we can simply latch onto the explanation that we want without giving any credence to any other explanation, particularly explanations that are far more likely and credible.
Returning to the thread - much of Harry Potter was written in Edinburgh and much of the naming in Lord of the Rings is derived from Edinburgh and its surrounds. This could be an odd coincidence or it could be telling us something.
Here's a funny thing: I had an idea that a book about a boy adept would be a good idea...only a day or two later I found out about "Harry Potter." This was in the mid-nineties or whenever it was that "Harry Potter" came out.. You will also note the name "HARRY. Very close to "Heru" or "Horus". And yes, the archetypal powers had a good ol' time with this series. I was having a period where the number 36 was popping up EVERYWHERE in my face. Then we rented one of the Harry Potter movies - and there was a scene where Harry's nasty step-brother screams loudly, right in Harry's face: "THIRTY SIX? THIRTY-SIX?"
Oh, and JP Rowlings is being sued by someone who says she ripped off the Old "Willy the Wizard" series from the seventies. Quite possible.
I wonder if the thought was placed into the noosphere looking for a good home and Rowlings was the first human to anchor that thought - at which time she received an intensive download.
Why would we think that only humans have thoughts?