prillalar | It takes two.

I've been thinking about identical twins in literature and I decided to make a list. There's no real point to it, except that I think there's a higher than usual number of redheads among them.

Tom and Pat Bartlett
Time For the Stars by Robert Heinlein
Hair: Not sure, but not red

Castor and Pollux Stone
The Rolling Stones by Robert Heinlein
Hair: Red, I believe

Sandy and Dennys Murray
A Wrinkle in Time interalia by Madeleine L'Engle
Hair: No idea. In fact, I'm not even sure they're identical.

Elladan and Elrohir, sons of Elrond
Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
Hair: Dark

Brent and Stuart Tarleton
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Hair: Red

Fred and George Weasley
Harry Potter books by JK Rowling
Hair: Red

Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield
Sweet Valley High sort of by Francine Pascal
Hair: Blonde
And they were the only girls I could think of.

Who did I miss? Looking for identical twins here, so please don't bring up the Bobbsey Twins.

[Edited to correct spelling of "Bobbsey"]
[Edited again to correct factual error that nobody called me on]

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I am ~~stalking Hal~~ just wandering through, and my freakish love-hate obsession with the Olsen twins compels me to say that they actually played one character on Full House becasue of child labor regulations and such things.

Other twins in literature: Marilyn and Carolyn Arnold in the BSC series, and Anna and Abby Stevenson, also from the BSC. I think Marilyn and Carolyn have red hair, but that's just from my memory of the cover illustration. Anna and Abby have "dark, curly hair."

Anne Shirley was surrounded by twins her entire life, but never identical, if I recall correctly. See Davy & Dora and Nan & Diana. Oh, wait, their landladies while they were at university "Were born identical twins," but at age sixty, they stopped, when one "grew old, none too gracefully, and the other stayed sixty, less gracefully still." They, naturally, had white hair when Anne knew them.

There are identical baby twins in Lois Lowry's Switcheroo.

I don't know the color of the twins' hair in the original Parent Trap, but in the remake, they had red hair.

Do we know whether Padma and Pavarti are identical or not?

In both the Parent Trap versions, the 'twins' were played by a single individual, Hayley Mills (very blonde) in 61 and Lindsay Lohan (the red head) in 98. It was the 61 movie that gave television the split screen technology that allowed Patty Duke (ash brown) to play identical cousins Patty & Cathy in 63. Another example of that is Dead Ringer with Jeremy Irons.

I don't recall Padma and Parvati being twins, but I could have been imparting my own interpretation. They are not portrayed by twins in Goblet of Fire.

Yes, I do recall that the twins in both Parent Traps were played by the same actor.

"Moon"..., "Nott"..., "Parkinson"..., then a pair of twin girls, "Patil" and "Patil" (SS 121) Dunno if they're ident, but definately twins. (And if Harry knows they're twins, isn't it probable that they're identical?

Parvati & Padma are identical, yes. From GoF:

"Brothers and sisters usually go in the same Houses, don't they?" [Harry] said. He was judging by the Weasleys, all seven of whom had been put into Gryffindor.

"Oh no, not necessarily," said Hermione. "Parvati Patil's twin's in Ravenclaw, and they're identical. You'd think they'd be together, wouldn't you?"

It takes two.

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