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Originally Posted by whitearrow
There are a lot of legitimate complaints that can be leveled at LotR -- that it's a "children's book" is not really one of them, IMO. It's 1100 pages and deals with some pretty serious themes. Though I suppose if you automatically define anything that doesn't contain explicit sex and gruesome violence as for children...
It's really not particularly difficult at all.
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I read the Hobbit as a child and enjoyed it. Strangely enough I found the Water Babies to be much more disturbing and that is a children's book.
Helen