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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 3017936" data-attributes="member: 22779">Heh, and probably 39.5 million of those copies were sold to schools.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Compare that to the almost 7 million copies sold on the first day for Half Blood Prince.&nbsp; Worldwide, she's flogged almost 270 million books.&nbsp; Somehow I think she's likely more read than Tolkien.Don't get me wrong.&nbsp; I love Tolkien.&nbsp; I really do.&nbsp; I've read the Hobbit and the LOTR many, many times.&nbsp; Read the Lost Tales and the Simirallion more than a few times as well.&nbsp; However, let's not get too carried away in personal preferences here.&nbsp; I 100% agree that LOTR is a better book than Harry Potter.&nbsp; But, that doesn't mean that it's the best fantasy book out there.I'm still stunned by the idea that we should limit our inspirations to a small subset of the genre when there are absolutely fantastic sources outside of Tolkien and Howard.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 3017936, member: 22779"] Heh, and probably 39.5 million of those copies were sold to schools. :) Compare that to the almost 7 million copies sold on the first day for Half Blood Prince. Worldwide, she's flogged almost 270 million books. Somehow I think she's likely more read than Tolkien. Don't get me wrong. I love Tolkien. I really do. I've read the Hobbit and the LOTR many, many times. Read the Lost Tales and the Simirallion more than a few times as well. However, let's not get too carried away in personal preferences here. I 100% agree that LOTR is a better book than Harry Potter. But, that doesn't mean that it's the best fantasy book out there. I'm still stunned by the idea that we should limit our inspirations to a small subset of the genre when there are absolutely fantastic sources outside of Tolkien and Howard. [/QUOTE]

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