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Old 01-05-2003, 03:28 PM   #7
Gorwingel
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One interesting thing about Harry Potter, is that it would have never become as popular if so many adults had not started reading it.

For me I read more fantasy when I was younger, (I am only 16, I know this sounds weird) and then during middle school I kind of stopped, and the LOTR movies (yes, I am one who read the books after the movies) and everything have brought me back to it. I have heard many of these articles about, "Is fantasy good for our society", and "Is it too much of an escape". I think it is very cool, that so many people are interested in it. Because that is one of the sad things that you lose as you are growing up, the wonder and imagination of youth.

Yes, it is an escape, but like in books such as LOTR it is not like you are going to a land that has less problems, you are going to one that has major problems. But these authors are talking about that the answers to the problems in LOTR are too simple and in our world they are much more complicated.

I don't know, I know I kind of visited a bunch of topics.
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