tOLKIEN (WAS: Real Audio

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

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No: HPFGUIDX C3314
From: catlady_de_los_angeles
Subject: Re: tOLKIEN (WAS: Real Audio
Reply To: [Yahoo! #3312] Real Audio
Date: 7/4/00 5:15 pm  (ET)

> They compare Harry Potter to Toilken!! The Hobbit was as boring as Hell
(IMHO) and how are 10 year olds, never mind me - supposed to follow a
book that has a GLOSSARY at the back! Acck!

I loved THE LORD OF THE RINGS when I was 8 (it must have been the immoral
Ballantine paperback of 1966) and didn't understand it very well, and
loved it even more when I was 10 and understood it much better.

Except that I had nightmares about Black Riders for *weeks*.

When 8, I looked up to the big 10-year-old children who get to be squires
in the big battle. When I was 10, I thought "just like me!"

LOTR differences from HP: no humor! little daily life! and it's set in
the distant past.