Gotta disagree with you there, she has repeatedly said it was never intended to be a "Children's Book", that's the way Bloomsbury chose to market it. It has always just been written for herself, and was always intended to flow from the juvenile to what we now see in the last few books. Many parents started having a problem with GoF, because they had their 8 year olds reading the books, and they were complaining about how can she make a Children's series so dark, and she responded by reiterating in the manner I mentioned above.storm wrote:You confuse adults with kids. I would not let my child read SRD. Tolkien wrote in a style that could only be comprehended by the most intelligent kids. Dune, another series that is brilliant, but not something your average 12 year old can sink their teeth into.
...what's with all the high society snobbishness, i havn't seen that much on this forum. If you want to compare apples to apples, maybe compare Chronicles of Narnia to Harry Potter. The great works of fantasy fiction are not children's books, adults may like Harry Potter, but the bottom line is that she still started it out as a book for children.
Completely agree with you that most kids can't handle Tolkien's writing, though.
Stephen King and JJ Abrams are both very big HP fans. And hasn't Donaldson himself praised her work?