Having only read The Lord Of The Rings and The Hobbit once and finding The Silmarillion easily put-downable, I've not picked up on what's in and what's not in the book when watching the films. I do enjoy The Hobbit movies more than The Lord Of The Rings, though - I really thought it would be the opposite - and really don't understand the criticism that there's too much CGI to be believable, simply because that's not been my impression at all when watching the films.

I think laying claim to a term (talking about "mannequin" skywalker here) three years after it had already been invented, regardless of whether you've heard the phrase before, would be hard to defend in a court of law! Easier to simply accept that you didn't come up with the term but perhaps you're just on the same wavelength as the person who first thought of it. It reminds me of when I used to write comedy routines back in the mid-nineties and would occasionally find that I'd written something that someone else had already thought of. Whenever this was pointed out to me or I found it out myself, I would drop the material and write something else, originality being the key.