LOTR vs Harry Potter - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

08-14-2002, 10:26 PM

I've only read the PS and found it light and ejoyable but chose not the see the film until its release on DVD. And anyway, all my money at the time was going on Lotr!! After seeing it on DVD can I just say, Harry needed a serious dose of Fairy dust sprinkled on him. More animation would be the go. I did enjoy the other characters though. But my personal preference is still LOTR! Mornie; Tolkein writes about all those things you find disagreeable in HP, ie possession (ringwraiths), shape changing (Beorn) Frodo talks about spells and incantations in the Barrow-downs scene, or don't these count! Gimli even refers to Galadrial as a Sorceress. It's all a matter of perspective is it not, as Gimli found out later! HP may be fulled with witches and wizards good and bad, trolls and dragons or whatever, but the morals are just as profound, and easy to discover to the 10yr old thats reading it ... and yes such things as loyalty among friends, compassion, decency. As to the thought that if HP is in schools why not the Bible ... well 'shrug' The supreme court defind HP as a religion or witchcraft as a religion? Either way to try getting the Bible back into the school system via that argument, would seem to me to open up a whole hugh unwanted can of worms.OOOPS! THE 10YR OLD AND THE 90YR OLD! [ August 17, 2002: Message edited by: Eleventy1-tipsy-hobbits ]

08-14-2002, 10:26 PM	#11
Eleventy1-tipsy-hobbits Guest Posts: n/a	I've only read the PS and found it light and ejoyable but chose not the see the film until its release on DVD. And anyway, all my money at the time was going on Lotr!! <BR>After seeing it on DVD can I just say, Harry needed a serious dose of Fairy dust sprinkled on him. More animation would be the go. I did enjoy the other characters though.<BR>But my personal preference is still LOTR!<BR>Mornie; Tolkein writes about all those things you find disagreeable in HP, ie possession (ringwraiths), shape changing (Beorn) Frodo talks about spells and incantations in the Barrow-downs scene, or don't these count! Gimli even refers to Galadrial as a Sorceress. It's all a matter of perspective is it not, as Gimli found out later! <BR>HP may be fulled with witches and wizards good and bad, trolls and dragons or whatever, but the morals are just as profound, and easy to discover to the 10yr old thats reading it ... and yes such things as loyalty among friends, compassion, decency.<BR>As to the thought that if HP is in schools why not the Bible ... well 'shrug'<BR>The supreme court defind HP as a religion<BR> or witchcraft as a religion? Either way to try getting the Bible back into the school system via that argument, would seem to me to open up a whole hugh unwanted can of worms.<P>OOOPS! THE 10YR OLD AND THE 90YR OLD! <p>[ August 17, 2002: Message edited by: Eleventy1-tipsy-hobbits ]