Flaming eye vs. Noseless unmentionable
In The Lord of the Rings the whole world is in peril: if Sauron wins, all the races of Middle Earth and particularly men will be enslaved. In Harry Potter if Voldemort wins, there will be a change of management at Hogwarts school. (At least that is what I have gleaned from the movies, which are said to be inferior to the books.) It will probably be bad for regular people too, but in the movies a kind of apartheid exists between the wizards and ordinary humans (“mugglesâ€). Occasionally we witness the casual destruction by dark forces of some famous London landmark, but few in the wizard dimension seem too perturbed. Since we are left in the dark about what’s at stake (Do we lose all our noses?) the war between good and evil has all the urgency of a battle for control of the high school drama guild…
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July 28th, 2009 at 00:27
I don’t thing anything comes close to the complexity of LOTR. But then again, I’ll take Mr. Potter anyday over Twilight…gives me shingles that one.
July 29th, 2009 at 03:02
oh my God I’m a huge fan of Twilight… NOT! I think Sauron is a scarier villain than Voldemort who appeared more of like a Wrong Turn cast than an evil sorcerer