So Many Similarities!

I've just re-watched Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, and I've decided to make a list of all the elements that are similar between Harry Potter and the Lord of the Rings:

• Protagonists are orphans: Harry and Frodo
• As a result, they live with their uncles: Uncle Vernon (OK, and also Aunt Petunia and Dudley), and Bilbo
• Protagonists were scarred by the Enemy: Harry has his lightening-shaped scar on his forehead, and Frodo has the wound from the Morgul-blade that "will never truly heal"
• Said scars hurt whenever the Enemy is close
• There are Dark Lords who have been destroyed, but their souls lived on, and are slowly regaining their power: Voldemort, and Sauron
• At the beginning of their revivals, said Dark Lords couldn't take physical forms: Voldemort had to live in other people's bodies, and Sauron could only manage to embody himself in the form of a huge red eye
• There are evil, black, face-less wraiths that work for the Dark Lord: Dementors and Ringwraiths
• There was a prophesy about the protagonist that predicted him and something that had to do with the darkness: Harry's prophesy was that he would be the end of the Dark Lord, and Frodo's was about the darkness that was reawakening
• Protagonist has a wise wizard friend: Dumbledore (OK, Harry has other wise wizard friends, too, but Dumbledore's the only one who has a white beard), and Gandalf
• Protagonists look through a "basin of water", and see a different time: Harry looks into the water (which are actually snippets of Dumbledore's memories), and sees the past (in the form of Dumbledore's memories), and Frodo sees the future through Lady Galadriel's Mirror
• The true powers of the wise wizard friend whose powers are never truly revealed (though that might change with the new book): Dumbledore's the only one whom Voldemort fears, after all, and Gandalf probably had the power to ressurect people if he wanted to, but was forbidden to do so by the Valar (at least, if I remember correctly)
• The wise wizard friend "died", and was reborn into a different body: The actor who played Dumbledore in the first two movies (RIP Richard Harris) died, so they got Micheal Gambon to portray Albus Dumbledore in the proceeding movies, and Gandalf the Grey "died" after his fight with the balrog, and then was reborn as Gandalf the White
• The protagonist has a Man Friday: Ron (OK, he's nowhere as devout as Sam, but he's been Harry's friend from the start, and he is more of the follower, while Harry is the leader), and Sam (there is literally the same follower-leader relationship, after all, Sam is Frodo's gardener, and in a way manservant, but in the end, he becomes his own boss)
• The protagonist and his Man Friday gets attacked by a giant spider: Aragog (OK, Harry and Ron get attacked by Aragog's children and not Aragog himself, but damn, they are still giant spiders!), and Shelob (if you'll like, you can compare the giant spiders of Mirkwood to Aragog's children, but I'm not quite sure whether those spiders are Ungoliant's children or Shelob's. I simply wonder how they learned speech.)
• The protagonists meet with a suspicious, and scruffy man who later turns out to be one of their greatest allies: Sirius Black, who becomes a beacon of hope for Harry as something close to a relative he actually likes, dies in book five, but it just didn't seem final. A ressurection, perhaps? And Strider, who later turns out to be King Aragorn, helped divert Sauron's attention from the Ring-bearer, and distracted him long enough to give Frodo the chance to destroy the Ring
• The protagonist and his friends get attacked by a homocidal willow tree: the Womping Willow, and Old Man Willow (well, Old Man Willow didn't actually attack Frodo (only Merry and Pippin), but he (or it) certainly had the intention to)
• There are ugly, pitiful creatures who help the protagonist: Dobby (I used to call him Doddy), and Sméagol/Gollum (ok, so he betrays Frodo, and leads him into a trap, but he did lead them out of Emyn Muil, and to Mordor, and in the end, "helped" Frodo destroy the Ring

These aren't as strong as the above:

• The protagonist uses a sword that he inherited from his ancestor: Godric Gryffindor's sword (OK, so Godric wasn't really Harry's ancestor, but as Dumbledore said: "Only a true Gryffindor could have pulled that [the sword] out of the hat [the Sorting Hat], Harry", and Frodo inherited sting from his cousin Bilbo
• The Dark Lord's names are similar: "Voldemort" and "Lord of Mordor"
• The protagonists have a curly-haired friend: Hermione, and Sam, Merry and Pippin
• The story also had a wise, and quite old woman: Professor McGonagall, and Lady Galadriel
• The protagonist has a big, hairy, and slightly coarse friend: Hagrid, and Gimli (even though they didn't have much of a platonic chemistry, but we did see the interaction between Frodo, Sam and Gimli before they were ambushed by Haldir and his Merry Elves, and Gimli is a slight bit bigger than the Hobbits)
• There are two extremely confident blondes in the story: Draco and his father, Lucius, though they're more arrogant than confident, and Legolas (who is also quite arrogant when addressing Gimli at the beginning), and Haldir (also quite arrogant at the beginning)
• Aragog/Aragorn...
• Longbottom leaf/Neville Longbottom

That's all I have for today. Boy, my fingers are tired, especially after typing this TWO times (the site annoyingly signed me off the first time for inactivity).