Personally I like Harry Potter better, I tried reading LOTR many times but only got so far, it just doesn't have the way to grasp me. But which do YOU like better? and why?
At the moment Harry Potter, I tried to read LOTR last year but I think the films plus everything going on put me off. The films are just boring, when I went to see the first one I'd had my navel pierced a few hours earlier so sitting crouched for three or so hours was absolute agony - plus someone kept sniffing every ten seconds throughout the whole film. When I tried reading the book I had my GCSEs plus all these ideas for crappy stories I had to get down. Hopefully after I get my results I might be able to concentrate on the books more then so hopefully I'll read them soon.
Harry Potter I like because as the more books they are they do get more appealing for the older readers. When I read the first one it was like "oh my god I'm reading a kid's book" but the sixth one was more adult so it was easier to read.
Even though your 6 years older then me I have to agree that I like the newer ones (Oder of the Phenoix, Half Blood Prince) because their getting more adult and more intresting.
I think the storyline of LOTR is good, but the description is sooooooooooooooooo long and boring. I fell asleep three times reading "The Siege Of Gondor" which is the big battle scene in RoTK. And did he really need 4-5 chapters that basically are "They went back to The Shire"?
Harry Potter all the way.
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The story of Lord of the Rings is awesome, perhaps even awesomer than Harry Potter, but at the same time, I like the Harry Potter books better. Why? To the point, and the descriptions are more clear-cut.
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I like both. But I guess Tolkien was a little too long winded at times. You don't really need most of the background mythology and history he includes. Then again he wasn't a real author and had no time for doing revisions. If he had, it probably would have turned out differently. Still, his books are something special. Harry Potter is nothing special It just seems that way because of the massive success it has had.
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They're both extremely special.
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I think I personally prefer LOTR myself. But the end of the last HP book left me spellbound!
It's really tight!
But LOTR is still my fave, plus they made way better movies!
I like them both about equally. I honestly can't say one is better than the other, though I think Harry Potter is easier to pick up and read than LOTR. I read all of the LOTR books twice in one month, and it was a chore. I'm re-reading all six of the HP books now, and it's a lot easier, and I always seem to notice things I didn't before (or I just forgot them). I thought the sixth book was really good, it was also very funny at times (made me laugh out loud), but the ending made me cry.
It all depends on which books. book two of the lord of the rings was exeptionally dull. It spent like eight paged discribing Erond's ears. Actually not really, but I think you get it...
As a whole, I like Harry Potter. The end of book 6 made me cry too.
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Call me shallow, but I couldn't get past the first chapter in LOTR. The movies are awesome though! Way better than the Harry Potter movies, which kind of sucked. But with the books there's no contest. Harry Potter is extremely special. I cried at the end of the last book too. DUMBLEDORE!! *sobs*
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I prefer the Harry Potter books. I got half way through the LOTR and gave up, but that was when I was 10 or 11 so I might have another go at It.
I LOVED the Hobbit. I got this cool one with awesome illustrations in the library. I think the Hobbit is a lot better than LOTR. Simply because its more bearable to read.
But overall...HP is the winner. I got so upset when Dumbledore died. I cried a lot. J.K. Rowling makes Harry's world seem so realistic and I grew very attached to quite a few of the characters, including Dumbledore. This didn't happen at all to me when reading LOTR.
Hobbit > Hp in books
LOTR > HP in movies.
Never read lotr series.
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I cried a lot. J.K. Rowling makes Harry's world seem so realistic and I grew very attached to quite a few of the characters, including Dumbledore. This didn't happen at all to me when reading LOTR.
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