Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-25973561-20150216162959/@comment-26116279-20150224140644

Beijing1000 wrote: LotR movies are better because of their sheer epicness and embodiment of all the places and cultures of Middle-Earth. But I prefer HP books because the language used in the LotR books have always struck me as a bit... (don't murder me for this) pretentious? I don't know, I've just never found them as engrossing as HP books.

Beijing1000 (Admin) Send me an owl 06:33, February 24, 2015 (UTC) You have to remember they were written about 70 years ago and that they were written by one of the greatest masters of linguistics in the world. Tolkien was fluent in 7 or 8 languages and 2 of them were latin and gothic. he created several fictional languages and is the only person in modern history to get 2 professorships at oxford university.

By the way, TheMarauder, Harry potter is not terrible i like it but Lotr is in my opinion much better.

Spartenz300 the Lotr books are harder to read than harry potter but The Books Of Lost Tales are in my opinion almost impossible to read.