Harry Potter vs. The Lord of the Rings

[Dida]

Which series do you think is a greater achievement overall?

 

[MjM]

Lord of the Rings hands down.

 

[Evil Tyrant]

Lord of the Rings is best.

 

[GenMarshall]

Neather, I perfer Star Wars.

 

[Sophie 378]

I win!!! First I thought of posting, saying "you'll get someone saying 'what, no Star Wars?' ", then I decided to have a bet with myself: I bet the third person to post would say that. Thanks, CivGeneral!
So as not to , I quite like all of them in different ways; it depends what mood I'm in.

 

[Fetus4188]

Lord of the Rings is the better series but Harry Potter is more "fun"

 

[Dida]

Neather, I perfer Star Wars.

No no, I can understand that you prefer Star Wars. However, the question is to decide between either Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings. No third choice.

 

[RoboPig]

i hate LOTR. Harry Potter for its gazillion faults was far better.

 

[Zarn]

LOTR is great. Harry Potter is as awful as Martin Luther. I bet you that Potter is a heretic.

 

[Elrohir]

Lord of the Rings is awesome.

Harry Potter isn't.

'Nuff said.

 

[blackheart]

Well, Harry Potter did make JK Rowling a billionaire...

 

[Hundegesicht]

The Lord of the Rings, most definately. Harry Potter is pretty good for cheesy kids books... but it's a wading pool compared to the literary ocean that is Tolkien.

 

[DBear]

The Narnia Chronicles beat Harry Potter....

 

[Fifty]

I most definitely prefer LotR

 

[slip79]

LOTR. Groundbreaking work that.
Potter is more fun in some ways, but as a teen I couldn't keep my hands off of LOTR. Way awesome books.

 

[GenMarshall]

No no, I can understand that you prefer Star Wars. However, the question is to decide between either Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings. No third choice.

Neather, Star Wars for me . You should have added, "neather, I am not inerested in eather films".

 

[Zarn]

Neather, Star Wars for me . You should have added, "neather, I am not inerested in eather films".

Wouldn't that be both equally bad?

 

[Yuri2356]

In terms of my personal enjoyment of them, LotR any day. For, though I generally dislike the fantasy genre, I especialy dislike any fantasy series who's setting runs paralell to a modern, futuristic, or otherwise technological setting and places all things 'magical' as inherantly better than technology by default. At the very least they should try to rationalise and place limits on their 'magic' if they try to place it into a technological context. Those that are set entirely in a fatasy realm can get away with more hand-waving 'magic' powers without getting on my nerves. Also, LotR has the whole epic war thing going for it, while Potter is more focussed on being 'fun'. (At least, early on in the series. I've heard it gets progressively darker as it goes on)

 

[SuperSloth]

aragorn would kill harry potter in fight.

 

[Riesstiu IV]

Are we talking about as books or as movies?

As movies, Harry Potter films tend to be more fun and interesting compared to the LOTR trilogy. The amount of gay hobbit emotional scenes between Sam and Frodo was too much.

As books, I've enjoyed LOTR more. Though I haven't read either series in much depth, I find the writing style and general story of LOTR to be superior.