Potter vs. Baggins!!

[couch potato]

I just thought up another wonderful something vs. somethingelse thread!!!!

WHICH MOVIES AND/OR BOOKS DO YOU PREFER!!!!!!

[TaXi]

POTTER!~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!





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[fryincpus]

Lord of the Rings books have been around a long time now.

Harry Potter is more recent like the last 5 years???
But I think Harry Potter books are more popular with the young kids than Lord of the Rings.

But Lord of the Rings will Kick Harry Potter's ***** anytime in the theatre.



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[Fishsauce]

Lord of the Rings is a great book and everybody should read it. Movie wasn't so great missed a few parts (Tom Bombadil). Hopefully they will do better in the Two Towers.

[ironik311]

Yeah, I noticed alot of things missing from the movie as well. But... if they'd included it all then it would have been like a 10 hour movie. The screenplay was pretty decent compared to some others. I thought that casting was chosen extremely well!

Gandalf rules!

[mharolde]

My vote goes to Tolkien and the Rings Trilogy, hands down. I haven't read all the Potter books yet, but so far they are excellent as was the movie. However, it is hard to compare the two, at least from a parents point of view. I have an eight year old son and he loves Potter. There were a couple of parts in the movie that had him, I won't say scared, but startled. I won't let him see the Lord of the Rings. I am afraid he will walk away thinking only of the violence and therefore be turned away to one of the great literary works. The messages in Tolkiens work are very deep and often complex. I don't think anyone could call the books an easy read. Very crudely put, they are books about a war and I doubt written with children in mind. Potter on the other hand is very easy reading and authored with children in mind. Although the overlying theme is the same, the fight between good and evil, Rowling presents it in a more child friendly way.

[NJEnviroguy]

If anyone is into LOTR I defineatly recommend reading a bio on Tolkien....he led a pretty cool life and its amazing how the whole thing started. He used to create languages, but not just create them, he would develop them...much like how our present day languages developed from Latin and Old English and so forth.

Anywho, defineatly LOTR.

[couch potato]

Originally posted by Fishsauce
Lord of the Rings is a great book and everybody should read it. Movie wasn't so great missed a few parts (Tom Bombadil). Hopefully they will do better in the Two Towers.
I read the book after the movie, so it was like the book was an expansion of the movie. that way, when i see the movie, I don't notice that anything is missing!:) I remember thinking the Potter movie was ok, but when Lord of the Rings came out, I forgot about Potter all together:rolleyes:

[$1500-P4 gamer]

The lord of the rings! But it is more than one book its a series. I read 2 of them. The first one is call The Hobbit. It was required reading whe I was in school. Guess I'm old huh.;) The second one is where the movie starts! Not the first one "the hobbit". The second is about his nephew that always admired him in book 1 getting the ring after he couldnt handle the evils that camewith it anymore. The ring was possing him. Then in the second book he gets rid of the ring-oh I wont tell that it will ruin the new movie coming out, you'll see how the ring gets destroyed it really good! Heres a hint- Greed kills! So the movie you all saw is only the first half of book two. Wait untill they get into the mountain!:D

[mharolde]

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I don't want to be nit-picky, but Tolkien was also required reading for me in school and you don't have it quite right. Although The Hobbit introduces us to the rings of power, it is not part of the Rings Trilogy. It is more of a prelude or introduction into Middle Earth. The movie that is out now is the complete first book of the trilogy, right down to the ending. True, the movie didn't have everything that was in the book, but the essentials were there and none of us wants to sit in a theater for 10 hours. The Two Towers is the second part of the trilogy and The Return of the King finishes it. Tolkien also wrote a book detailing the first years of Middle Earth called The Silmarllion(doubt spelling is correct).
OK, I will put away my red pen. :r :D

[vibe666]

I can't believe you even asked the question!

it's like comparing fillet minion and hamburger! OK the Harry Potter books were OK, but they're still just kids books, and the film was a good family film, but there's just no comparison between J.K.Rowling and J.R.R.Tolkien in any way.

Tolkien was a genius beyond compare in the literary world and didn't just create stories and an imaginary world, but a practically real world full of civilisations with language and histories going back thousands of years. Rowling wrote a few books about a kid at a school with at best a couple of dozen in depth characters to the hundreds created by Tolkien.

Not to mention (which I think already has, here) the detailed languages that were built from the ground up by Tolkien with grammar and form unequalled by anything other than real languages in our world, you can forget Klingon (even though you can study it officially in some schools!!!).

[Bigjakkstaffa]

Neither...

Their both toss... as is all of that "fantasy" rubbish...

--Jakk:t

[$1500-P4 gamer]

Originally posted by mharolde
$1500 P4Gamer

I don't want to be nit-picky, but Tolkien was also required reading for me in school and you don't have it quite right. Although The Hobbit introduces us to the rings of power, it is not part of the Rings Trilogy. It is more of a prelude or introduction into Middle Earth. The movie that is out now is the complete first book of the trilogy, right down to the ending. True, the movie didn't have everything that was in the book, but the essentials were there and none of us wants to sit in a theater for 10 hours. The Two Towers is the second part of the trilogy and The Return of the King finishes it. Tolkien also wrote a book detailing the first years of Middle Earth called The Silmarllion(doubt spelling is correct).
OK, I will put away my red pen. :r :D

I stand corrected. You are right. It was YEARS since I read those books but yes, I remember how it ends- dont tell mharolde, it'll ruin it for the other guys when the sequil comes out.;)

[ironik311]

mmmm The hobbit was required reading when I was at school and I'm only 25... not that old!

I only read the lord of the rings just before the movie came out (having already seen the early animated version). I've read heaps of books before I picked them up, but they instantly became a favourite. I agree, Tolkien is a literary genius and I can see his influence in most of todays fantasy books and games.

I hardly think detailing what happens in the next 2 movies will give the story away, since its one of the most read books in history... but I won't be the one to do it, suffice to say the story only gets better!

[germanNiklas]

LORD OF THE RINGS................IT ROCKS
i read the book 4 times
2 times in german (caus im german:D ) and 2 times in english (caus i live in UK:D )
i LOVE the book
my favourit book ever
and the hobbit is kinda cool too
im like a lord of the rings fanatic, and harry potter.........NAAAA dont like it very much
LOL but my father got tickets for me and my mum and himself for the PREMIER in london
so im going to the harry potter premier JEAHAAAWWWW cant be bothered really but maybe i get in TV and see cool stars and if bbc asks me HOW DID U LIKE THE FILM..........i will say
IT SUCKS
LOL
i bet they wont show that on tv
well anyway :p
lord of the rings kicks ***
and i have seen the trailer of the two towers
http://www.lordoftherings.net/
there u can get it
i love it:D

[Optimus Prime]

my vote goes out to LOTR as well, it is truly a superb collection of books, and is more gritty and involving than the 'kiddy' books of Harry Potter.

[Bigjakkstaffa]

indeed - although i hate beardy weirdy as a whole, having read the hobbit (and unusually enjoyed it) and the first 100 pages of the complete LOTR collection (in one book) which bored me s**tless... i have also read the first two Potter books...

...from a pure literary point of view Tolkien kicks Rowling sensless... Potter although an enjoyable-ish read hardly challenges the intellect or engroses the reader with a thought provoking storyline, subplots or hidden contexts and meanings as IMO most good books should in at least one way... Tolkien is certainly good at streching ones intellect and as many keep telling me "engrosing the reader" (personally i fall asleep with the LOTR books)... wheras Potter left me cold... i read the first two in under a week, and although relatively enjoyable, they were nothing more than a kids book, and i was able to put them down at any time i liked, there was no calling to go back until i reach the end such as i had with The Eagle has Landed, (one of my more recent reads) and other books...

IMO the under 12's should stick to Potter, above that they will hopefully have stopped reading that fantasy trash :p, if not Tolkien should be your preference, if only for The Hobbit...

--Jakk:t

[Dave Myers]

MR Potter is very readable. Mr Frodo, well he can put you to sleep. It is rather amazing that LOTR was written so long ago, and yet is really quite timeless. I like both stories, but LOTR was my schtick long before Harry & Friends came out. Who said good books need to be easy to read?

LOTR for me!

[uncle_jimbo]

I prefer Lord of the Rings.




-- uncle_jimbo

[TARP2]

My black labrador was named Gandalf. He's been gone 20 years now. I fully expect to see him pop up again sometime.
Guess what my vote is?;)

[CompGeek01]

Tought choice.....riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. Probably not. Tolkien is the BEST fantasy writer ever (with Margaret Weis and Tracey Hickman in close proximity). One more vote for LoTR!

-B

[$1500-P4 gamer]

Margaret Weis -she writes great books. I read one about the haunted house, very good.:)