Lord of The Rings or Harry Potter?

hmmm nor do I.

Brandan no offence but Witch Craft, we are not in the middle ages.(i wish) We do not persecute witch craft so get to the now already jeeze.

Now to say which i prefer Harry Potter all the way, the movies were practically an insult to the book, but the LOTRs movies all the way.

No offence but i tried reading the LOTRs an well i got quite far but got bored(too much description,I'll try to reread it).

Fontroy wrote:Brandan no offense but Witch Craft, we are not in the middle ages.(i wish) We do not persecute witch craft so get to the now already jeeze.

Now to say which i prefer Harry Potter all the way, the movies were practically an insult to the book, but the LOTRs movies all the way.

No offense but i tried reading the LOTRs an well i got quite far but got bored(too much description,I'll try to reread it).

Hey, no offense but you're the same, whats with this Knight stuff? Isn't that around the same time? Or even further back in the time line? To be honest, I wish there would be witches... That would be awesome. (Only if I was a witch though)

I think I already said something on here, but I'll say again. I prefer the Harry Potter books. Lord Of The Rings bored me to bits. Too much description made me lose interest easy. (I have a very short attention span)

Noxious wrote:I still don't get how it's against your religion.

I'm assuming that that he's talking about it being against Christianity. There are specific passages in the Bible that say to stay away from witch craft and magic. But I know people that don't read Tolkein for the same reason.

Mmm hmmm. Elves, rings that have to power to destroy all that's good in the world, Dark Lords, wizards with staffs that light up in the dark, ect. I think that's all magic. Just because it doesn't say the word "witch" doesn't mean there's no "witch craft."

*nods* but at the same time, if you read the books, they downplay alot of it and focus instead on the characters and the battles. And then of course the fact that Tolkien was himself a Christian and some people believe that the trilogy is a religious alagory (the author denied this)... I can see the cases for both sides...

There's actually a thread for this, if you care to go look for it.

I have immense respect for Tolkien, who practically created a whole new subgenre and style of writing with his Lord of the Rings books. It truly is an epic story, and I'm sure it will continue to be read alongside Homer, Virgil, and other great composers of epics throughout the years. He created a whole new universe of imagination that people are continuing to explore.

HOWEVER, I find it hard to really get into Tolkien's style, but that all boils down to plain and simple personal preference. As much as I respect Tolkien and his work, I prefer to read Harry Potter just for pleasure reading. It essentially does the same thing that the Lord of the Rings do, though on a smaller and more accessible scale.

Honestly I tried reading the Lord of the Rings. I managed to finish the first book in about a month, I am not bothered to read the other two since I've seen the films. I know theres alot more said in the book that they didnt film but I don't care. I enjoyed reading The Hobbit, its (in my opinion) much better than the Lord of the Rings.

Harry Potter. I am not a fan and I don't think I ever will be. I didnt like the films and got bored with the books. My sister has all six books and cried at the end of The Half-Blood Prince.

*sighs* I don't know why theres rivalry between Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings.

I agree the hobbit was good but the lord of the rings isn't i think people are only reading them because of the movies. Harry potter is not an extrodinary book like everyone makes it out to be. They are third grader books, I would never read them if i hadn't read the first couple or so in third grade. You must be really used to reading run of the mill books if you cried at the end.

i like both but HP is better. TLOTR doesn't seem very friendly.though THE HOBBIT was aimed at kids and i loved it. HP 5TH Wasn't very good but the rest esp. 3,4and 6 are excellent.

but the lord of the rings isn't i think people are only reading them because of the movies.

Excuse me?

Anyone who truly likes the series likes them for the books, not the movies. I read LotR before the movies came out. Yeah, I was... eleven, but I still loved them, even though I didn't understand some of it. Maybe it's style preference. But if you actually take the time to slow down and not rush through the books, it's worth it, in my opinion. You get so much more.

TLOTR doesn't seem very friendly.though THE HOBBIT was aimed at kids and i loved it.

Exactly. LotR is in no way aimed at kids. Most of the HP stuff isn't in the same age group AT ALL. It's the breadth of the idea in LotR, the complexity of the world... HP is a story.

I think the Harry Potter books are much more to the point, descriptions as the ones in LOTR are long and drawn out which makes them oh-so-boring. The Hobbit was good but I hated the others. Also, I think JR Tolkien speaks in a less-modern voice than JK Rowling. The LOTR movies were WAAAAYYYY better than the HP movies though.

glad to know that evvryone likes tlotr movies a 10000000 times and much more than hp movies. hp movies gives a bad impression to the books, someone persuade peter jackson to do the rest of the hp movies. maybe this 4th movie will be a tinsy winsy better-the movies go soooo off-storyline and Hogwarts doesn't look iompressive from the outside. i too cried a loooooooooooot when Sirius and Dumbledore died-they are my favourite chararcters. anyone in for more "chose betwwen 2 series?" read my new post on hp and eragon!!!

I am truly appalled. I feel put down, on behalf of Tolkien, in so many ways. Now I understand Tolkien didn't expect his series to take off the way it did, but still! What's all this about 'too much description'? Why is it so hard to read the Lord of the Rings? I'm taking this to the discussion board honestly...
I first read the books when I was 12, twelve! and I'm no genius. Sure the first time I read through it, I was lost on some concepts and words, but the second time, which I'm currently at, the series is/was completely coherent! In fact, the entire mythology is! It's not hard to follow, I mean your all old enough for the subject matter, and content. The books have meaning, just like most stories. One thing I find interesting, is the fact that Tolkien himself says he despised all forms of allegory, and stated himself, that his stories are not it in any form, unless on a sub-consious level, but only faintly. However, I find that he could have fooled us all, because the more I look at the Lord of the Rings and the Silmarillion, the more allegory I see, the more connections I make to the Bible, or at least to Biblical refrences, and the Christian faith in the whole. I could go on to discuss my favourite topic, but I'm running short on time. All i'll say is give th series a chance, read it! Don't get bored, your all old enough to handle a magnificant writing style, and what you call 'too much description', which no doubt enhances the tale! [/i]

I see that almost everyone is rooting for "Harry Potter". OK! Harry Potter's good but LOTR is amazing. Think of it, LOTR has been fascinating people for decades. Harry Potter has lasted alittle less than one, and already the Pottermania is on the wane.
For example, let us consider the way Rowling and Tolkien have handled the villains. Tolkien's
villain, Sauron is never seen by any of the characters, whereas Voldemort is seen at least once in every book. Morerover, Tolkien makes it more enthralling because we learn that Sauron was but a servant of the Dark Lord, of whom only references are made.
Also, the world Tolkien has created is much more detailed. It is to the extent that people may be inclined to call him nerdy. Harry Potter gets nowhere near Frodo Baggins.