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   From: ojevind.lang@bredband.net   
      
   "Troels Forchhammer"  skrev i meddelandet   
   news:Xns9DC5F3C943101T.Forch@130.133.4.11...   
      
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   > However, even at her best I can't see Rowling as having any of the   
   > 'spirit' or 'air' of Tolkien's writing: hers are, in my opinion, a   
   > very different kind of stories from Tolkien's   
      
   Yes. Her HP books are a mixture of fantasy, schhol novels and teenage love   
   interest stories. In a way, she portends phenomena such as "Twilight".   
      
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   > More than anything I think that she needs to constrain herself. I   
   > don't think she handles long stories very well -- neither in terms   
   > of individual books, nor in terms of the series' story-arch. But   
   > this, I think, is not the place to discuss Rowling's faults and   
   > virtues ;-)   
      
   Oops! I read this too late. Of course, I could choose not to send off this   
   post, but "What I have written I have written". You can always ignore it.   
      
   Öjevind   
      
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