Article: More on Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings. (Letters to Editor).(Letter to the Editor)

I enjoyed your film review of The Fellowship of the Ring ("Rings Runs Circles Around Rowling" by Steve Bonta, January 28th issue). After seven or eight readings, I am convinced that The Lord of the Rings is the finest work of fantasy in 20th-century English literature. The same issue of THE NEW AMERICAN reviewed The Sorcerer's Stone. Although I did not see the film of the first of the J.K. Rowling series, I disagree with some of your observations.

At age 61, my enthusiasm for juvenile fiction is somewhat limited, but I was able to finish the first, and read part of the second "Potter," and I found that, rather than a handbook for the occult, as your several ...

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