XPost: rec.arts.books.tolkien, alt.fan.tolkien   
   From: giles@poetic.com   
      
   Öjevind Lång wrote:   
   > "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".   
      
   Without getting into HP too much, the only real portents to the Twilight   
   nonsense is teenage romance novels.  HP doesn't touch any of those   
   nerves that a romance novel does.   
      
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