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Old 08-01-2012, 06:12 AM   #121
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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.
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.
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