Article: Magic imagined.(film versions of Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings)(Brief Article)

`A kind of crime against the imagination." That's what a recent editorial in Canada's Globe and Mail called the upcoming film adaptations of J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy and J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. Strong words to describe the two most anticipated films of the year. But as they fast approach--Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone opens November 16, The Fellowship of the Ring December 19--apprehension lurks, albeit alongside great excitement.

Leah, 13, can't wait to see Harry, but she's nervous, too. "I have [the characters] totally down to their wrinkles in my mind," she says. (She asked that her real name not be used.) "I just hope ...

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