Ideas For Spells Options

Okay, I've been on a horrifying and shameful Tolkien binge lately. Literally, horrifying. Three weeks and I read the Hobbit, all three Lord of the Rings books and the Silmarillion. I'm now working on the unfinished tales. Those of you who have access to the box of spells forum (for those who don't... you'll discover many things by the time you reach thirty posts, and access to more forums will be your reward) may have seen my spell for large-scale protective shielding. I got the idea from the Silmarillion. This is the point of this post: to point out the wonderful ideas for spells and things that books can give us. So these books have given me great ones (seeing as the majority of books that include magic are distinctly Harry Potter-esque in the style of the spells used; wave a wand and it will rain candy, the gold ideas are few and far between) and I was wondering: what books have given you great (or good... or average... or bad... you get the point) spell ideas?

Kaboom, it is not up to you to judge any field of study. I guarantee that most other people who dismiss cryptozoology also dismiss magick - which is significantly less logical, I will add. I will point out that the platypus was once a subject of cryptozoology and that even when one was brought before scientists they STILL claimed it was a stitched-together fake. Open your mind or close your mouth, because you're sounding like a true cretin.

I love the hasty response. Given that is the case, enlighten me. Bring me what information you know about these fire breathing-creatures. Where have they walked the earth? Where did Saint George end up burying his dragon?

On the topic of cryptozoology, could we also involve vampires and werewolves? I've seen aplenty of personal blogs professing their discovery that they were children of the shadow too.