Farenheit 451

[Lush]

Lush, whatever my love of Tolkien and personal respect and affection towards you, if I were your history teacher I would have banned Tolkien from my class, even more so for messing up Aragorn with Andropov, since the content of your schoolbag is your property and you are free to carry Tolkien wherever you want, but you are not supposed to read those in my class especially when...

Precisely, dearest. It was just my luck, however, that I had an "A" in the class, and that the teacher was a man.

As for your theory on the banning of books serving as good advertisement: bravo! I really had not thought about it in these terms, but as I recall now: The second I had learned that the French had originally banned Lolita, it was on my Christmas list. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

littleman, there is also the case of Tolkien's works being older than Rowling's. Books that have been around for decades seem safer somehow, but novelty tends to be feared by the sort of people you desrcribe, or so it would seem.