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Originally Posted by applesauce
I have not read LOTR I have attempted to watch the movies with no success. Everybody in my house loved the movies and my husband has read the books. They would call it YA. I just found it a yawn. But then I found Harry Potter the same and I did read the first book to my kids. They liked the movies better.
LOTR and Harry Potter are just to child like for my tastes.
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In no conceivable way is LOTR "YA", any more than the Anglo-Saxon epics which Tolkien studied as his "day job" and was, in a sense, attempting to copy in LOTR, are children's stories. LOTR is written by a scholar, for an adult audience, dealing with adult themes.