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That is true.... also often (and I speak as a former teacher ) it may be that it is not that they object to fantasy as such but they don't want you to read nothing but fantasy - and I know only too well that I can go a long time without reading much apart from Tolkien. Teachers like you to read a wide range. Also, when I was doing A-Levels and started university, I felt that I was "meant" to be reading more "serious" things and I think that attitude may linger... And it may well be that your teacher is not aware that there are some really good writers writing fantasy amongst the rip-off merchants.
However I am second guessing here what her objections may be.
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“But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.”
Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace
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