Tolkien Is Officially Good For Boys!

[Selmo]

Originally Posted by The Might

And I thought that fantasy books like Tolkien or Rowling's books were not allowed because of the whole magic and pagan stuff...

The reading list is intended for British schools. We don't have neo-Nazi Evangelical book-burners in the UK; that's an American phenominon.

With regard to making The Hobbit compulsory reading or not: I own my own introduction to Tolkien to the fact that my brother's school set it for compulsory study, back in the early 1960s. My brother brought the book home, I read it and was hooked.
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