LOTR or Harry Potter?

[mihuta]

I've read LOTR, The Hobbit and Silmarillion and on the other side all 6 volums of Harry Potter.
I think you could rather compare The Hobbit to Harry Potter since they are both targeting a certain age category ( young - although people of all ages appreciate them ) and therefor focus more on adventure and humour.
LOTR was written more like an epic (let's say an "odyssey" of fiction) and deals more in mithology and folklore than the other books mentioned above (except Silmarillion that basically is just mithology and folklore)

[Erised]

I've read LOTR, The Hobbit and Silmarillion and on the other side all 6 volums of Harry Potter.
I think you could rather compare The Hobbit to Harry Potter since they are both targeting a certain age category ( young - although people of all ages appreciate them ) and therefor focus more on adventure and humour.
LOTR was written more like an epic (let's say an "odyssey" of fiction) and deals more in mithology and folklore than the other books mentioned above (except Silmarillion that basically is just mithology and folklore)

Exactly
Though I hardly find a book that has horrible killings in it for kids.
And descriptions of curses and pain

And fourth Harry Potter movie was rated PG-13, so that's saying something.

[Ses]

I'm gonna have to go with Harry on this one.
I was incredibly bored by LOTR, but Harry Potter was fun to watch and come on: Alan Rickman!

[Anubis69]

And Gary Oldman! He was so great in "Leon" and "The Fifth Element"! even then, when it comes right down to it, i'd rather watch epic battles, gandalf with his big white beard, a crazy talkin' scotsman and Scaramanga getting beaten with a stick!

[Simonthefurling]

For movies id say lotr, i dont know about books since iv not read lotr, though id certainly say hp are fantastic books.

[Col.Foley]

gandalf with his big white beard, a crazy talkin' scotsman and Scaramanga getting beaten with a stick!

LOL.
Personally for me it is a toss up.