Grow Up!... Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings are for kids

I'm amazed at the amount of adults that are actually interested in this shit.

can I still play my video games?

anymore? Alice in Wonderland and Tom Sawyer were made for children, too, and I love reading these.
By the way: I don´t think, the Lord of the Rings was written for children.


edited for bad grammar...

i agreed to check on two cats for a 40-something childless couple a few weekends ago (i know. i know. with enough food, water... cats don't need us.).

anyway, when i went to the apartment to check on the cats, i noticed harry potter sheet music on the piano, harry potter books, DVD's, and posters on the walls. also, the entire book collection was devoted to fantasy sword-and-bodice-ripper paperbacks.

i don't get it.

is the explanation I think you're looking for. Some people can't face the harsh truth about the shit we're in at the moment, and need a bolt hole.

if you're gonna dis me -- make the list complete.

Go and take your medicine.

The Hobbit was written for kids not The Lord of the Rings series.

is so mature.

Righteo...

in large measure, for Christopher Tolkien, the author's son, a fighter pilot for the RAF in World War II who received large portions of the novel in serial form during his deployment in South Africa. The author, J.R.R. Tolkien, was at the time a professor of antiquities at Oxford University. Of course, a literate soul such as yourself can easily dismiss a tale you've never read as child's fare, same as I'm sure you can classify Wagner's operas as Mousketeer fare, and the poetry of Ovid, Homer, and Virgil "useless merriment." Ahh, to be a Philistine, disdainful of the unknown and devoid of the capacity to wonder.

Thank you, Journeyman, well said!

obviously the original post was written by "W" himself!

it's not all it's cracked up to be.

Lighten up.

Snob.

:eyes:

That is shit, I agree with you. :D

But LOTR is just gold baby. Solid gold.

that someone can dismiss quality art and entertainment simply because they belittle it as "kids stuff."

Get a life. Read some Beatrix Potter! :D

There's a echo in here.

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May as well complete my 'kid shit'.

I rather stay a kid forever then be a boring adult :D

all of your interests, so we can tell you which ones suck.

What's the problem?

LOLOLOLOL!

I think escaping for awhile make me better equiped to deal with the reality that we live in.

A thread worth using that little X-in-a-box on!

Hey Mods, I have an idea for a new forum on DU.

"Nasty Reviews of Books We Have Never Read and Movies We Have Never Seen."

what are you, nuts or somethin'? . . . who the hell wants to grow up? . . . takes all the fun out of living, and means you can't do things like play with yo-yos, build forts with blankets, and dig in the sandbox . . . grow up, indeed! . . . not for me, thank you very much . . . :silly:

very serious... :eyes:

Consistently among even English majors the books rank straight into the top 100 books of the 20th century.

It took 20th century literary norms of emphasizing on the everyman (ie the Hobbits) and crafted them into 19th century and earlier ideas of chilvary and folklore.

The Sauron figure easily dismissed as a nebulas enemy not worthy of stature of animate form is more accurately described as a symbol of greed and avarice in a changing world.

Many legends talk of shifting times but the rise of the age of Man and the nostalgia for early ages have great parity with what Tolkien saw in a changing world of the 20th century that could produce the Great War.

It was not the great knights or fading madmen kings that would rule the day in Tolkien's works. They would play their part for sure but instead the common man was the one that had to rise to the occasion and destroy the symbol of seduction (the ring).

The Hobbit was a simplier book and perhaps worthy of this dismissal but your offhand lumping of the Lord of the Rings into the same category as a book obviously written primarly as a children's work is silly and shallow.

All of them? The actual books not the Cliff Notes versions?

Just wondering.

I've never read the LOTR series but I've read every Harry Potter book and I just love the series. Very entertaining stories.

I guess I don't get your point. :eyes:

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