Tolkien in school?

[Narya]

Well, I come from Germany, but we didn´t go to see TTT and havn´t read any book by Tolkien.
But a girl in my class just made a report in our English- Class about LotR. She was a bit quicker choosing a topic than I; otherwise I would have taken LotR as my subject I am going to talk about...
Her report was good, but because she only had watched the movies and read FotR - as she told me -, it had some mistakes; sometimes, I think, one could notice how far she had got reading the books. But I don´t want to sound mean...

I don´t think it would be so good to read LotR in school. In generall I don´t like it when we are reading a book in class and have to answer many questions of our teacher that only lead us to his opinions about the issues in the book. I often tend to think, when we talk about a book in class that we haven´t read completly, that it will be less fun reading the book after our teacher talked about it with us.
As most of you said, some students will hate Tolkien after being forced to read it and I also think it´s better do discover such a book on your own; but maybe I´m the only one who has got this problem with reading books in class.

I am now in 11th grade and I would like to do something in school concerning LotR or Middle Earth and Tolkien´s work in generall.
A good idea to include Tolkien´s work in school would be a class about Middle Earth for all Tolkien- Fans who like to prove their knowledge and talk about LotR on a higher level.
Maybe this is possible in some of your schools; talking about LotR while studing English literature is a great thing, too I think.

[ March 11, 2003: Message edited by: Narya ]