Tolkien taught in school

[Morsul the Dark]

Originally Posted by Encaitare

It would take too long, though, to read the whole trilogy and really understand it. I think it's the kind of thing you need to read at least twice. Surely it could be completed in one school year, but teachers are into multitasking and all that crepe, and they just love jamming an impossible number of assignments into a tiny frame of time. Unless the teacher was really a Tolkien fan, the book would probably lose some of its magic.

And there would, of course, be the idiot kids who snickered at Frodo and Sam...

Good points certainly didn't think of them true many students would snicker at Sam and Frodo. It's a shame really. But you must hear what excuse one of my teachers had used.(It was my math teacher.)We were talking about this and she said, "LOTR shouldn't be taught because it isn't even literature I don't know why anyone likes it, it's so stupid." I do say insulting a work of art like that might as well say the earth is flat.