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View Poll Results: Which Is Better?
The Harry Potter Movies 13 24.07%
The Lord of the Rings Movies 41 75.93%
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Old 01-11-2010, 04:57 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Harry Potter vs. LOTR!


The Movies! Not The Books!



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Old 01-11-2010, 04:58 PM   #2 (permalink)
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i will be totally disappointed if lotr doesn't win this one. harry potter is lame...the movies bore me to death.
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Old 01-11-2010, 04:59 PM   #3 (permalink)
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I'd like if I could get a poll for this
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How can you even compare the two? I am a fan of both of the series but...

Rowling is actually a terrible writer. In all of the books there are a plethora of grammatical errors and very unaesthetic sentences. Tolkien on the other hand, is a fantastic writer and a brilliant scholar. He was an unbelievable linguist and created his own languages! Rowling just stole a bunch of latin phrases.

LOTR was pretty original for its time, whereas the Harry Potter series seems like a rip-off of everything that came before it. The Dark Lord Sauron vs. The Dark Lord Voldemort... the horcruxes that Harry has to find and destroy verses the rings and the Ring of Power that Frodo has to destroy... etc.

Lord of the Rings to me is a masterpiece, Tolkien was a very intelligent scholar and a brilliant writer. Harry Potter on the other hand, although I grew up with the books and do enjoy them dearly, is nothing compared to LOTR... it's not as epic, not as well-written, not as in-depth as the whole entire universe of Middle Earth that Tolkien created. I mean, look at The Silmarillion.

I don't think they are comparable at all, and if you do compare them, it's an insult to Tolkien IMO.
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why do you always create embarrassing threads ?! You must stop... and as soon as possible!
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They are comparable however. People compare them all the time. They also originated around the same time period. It is inevitable that people wold clump together the two biggest Fantasy movies of their time.




I'd never include Narnia though...
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why do you always create embarrassing threads ?! You must stop... and as soon as possible!
But you like Harry Potter more!
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They are comparable however. People compare them all the time. They also originated around the same time period. It is inevitable that people wold clump together the two biggest Fantasy movies of their time.




I'd never include Narnia though...
Uh, they didn't originate in the same time period...

The first Harry Potter book came out in 1997 and the Fellowship of the Ring came out in 1954 and The Hobbit in 1937-ish...
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Movies I meant.
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Well yeah.. but as a guilty pleasure (and I would've liked keeping it a secret lmao).

However, LotR is by far better, though I don't like it that much. I'm sure I'd get obsessed with it if I begin reading the books.
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