Rowling and Tolkien

 

Philip Nel on Tolkien and Rowling

August 7th, 2008 — , Hogwarts School of Literature, Philip Nel, Rowling and Tolkien, comparing Tolkien and Rowling  from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head

by Travis
Philip Nel, author of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Novels: A Reader’s Guide, contributed an excellent article to The Lion and the Unicorn in 2005.  In “Is There a Text in this Advertising Campaign,” Nel argues effectively in favor of the series’ literary merits (contra the position of John Pennington, in particular, and A.S. Byatt [...]

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