Umm, having heard all these excellent points, I'm more confused than I was when I first started this thread... [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] Maybe there really isn't anything in common between fantasy-lovers, that it's about the same thing as liking chocolate icecream. Maybe, maybe not.
(or maybe there is a hobbit inside those of us who love Tolkien, and the rest are just plain dull humans...right? [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img])
Seriously: as Kalessin pointed out, there actually isn't a straight line between fantsy-books and others. (and by the way Kalessin: speak wisely -as you indeed have done- for you have chosen the name of my God. And don't be suprised if I occasionally bow down to you... [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img])
But I'll have to disagree with Willie. I certainly didn't read LotR, of any other book for that matter, without thinking anything. Quite the opposite. I think that reading is great excercise for the mind. I really can get lost in a book and in the same time think stuff like "would somebody really act like that, or is this pure fiction? would I act like that?" It's no obstacle for reading fantasy.
And by the way, sorry for my english. I'm way too busy dansing with all these polarbears to check my spelling. No, I'm just kidding. Here in Finland we only dance with them on weekends. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]
(don't listen to me. i've been weird all day.)
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