[quote=“holybuble, post:6, topic:708”]
Why would you say J.K. Rowling cheated? Is it because she manages to introduce Harry without fanfare?[/quote]
She “cheated” (note the quotation marks) because the first chapter of Philospher’s Stone was about the Dursley’s and such before Harry could even form a coherent sentence, meaning it wasn’t from his point-of-view, and in Goblet of Fire, it was more out of the gardner’s point-of-view than anything. The point is, you can change point-of-view to people who aren’t your main character.
Depends on how separate those arguments are, I would say.
I don’t know exactly what the stories of Lord of the Rings are, but I would argue that Frodo’s Mission and Aragorn’s Mission(s) are separate enough, even if they started at the same place.