Can children appreciate The Lord of the Rings?

[Sindalómiel]

Originally posted by Carannillion:
<STRONG>This is quite healthy, I think, and in most cases, analyzing a book and writing a paper on it (simply writing it for yourself, not for any hand-ins at school) can be very fun.</STRONG>

You never went to my school did you? I hated analyzing books, they'd rip them apart to find some hidden meaning and it would ruin the book forever. I don't like a single book I had to read in school, even if I quite enjoyed it before it was utterly destroyed by the English curriculum.