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== [[Literature]] ==

* Since [[J. R. R. Tolkien]]'s Middle-earth stories (''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', etc) span a world over thousands of years, and he wrote on it all his life, there is a lot of information on a variety of topics, history, and characters' lives. In fact, ''The Lord Of The Rings'' is more backstory with a novel than a novel with a backstory. Tolkien wrote the history of Middle-Earth as part of long running idea to create a British mythology that rivalled the far richer folklore such as Norse mythology. The novels themselves evolved out of this. His work went so far as to invent entire languages with their own character sets and long running genealogies detailing every major family, be they human, elf or otherwise.

** Don't forget about {{spoiler|Snape, who got a flashback in the fifth book that shows James and Sirius being bullies and explaining one part of why Snape hates Harry, and a whole chapter in the last book dedicated to why Snape even protected Harry, which was because of Snape's unrequited love for Lily, which would be the other part of why he hates Harry.}}

** One classmate of Harry's got a disproportionately large backstory: [https://web.archive.org/web/20100103152238/http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/extrastuff_view.cfm?id=2 Dean Thomas]. Rowling has written "I think Chris <ref>[[Chris Columbus]], director of the first two films</ref> was slightly taken aback by the amount of information I had on this peripheral character."