Okay this may sound like a stupid question (and it’s going to be followed by a stupid story) but I was just wondering what people generally prefer: Harry Potter or Lord of the rings. I used to be lotr fan (mostly because my whole family are and I’d have been disowned at nine years old if I wasn’t) but then something happened to me when I was sixteen to make me kinda dislike lotr. I and the rest of my classmates at school went to see the stage version of lotr. I’ll admit that I’m not a fan of the theatre but I was blown away by this show. The costumes, the sets, the stunts, the singing, even the lighting blew me away – or it did until the curtain call when guys dressed as orcs started roaming through the audience trying to bug them. One of the orcs moved along the row (which was empty) in front of me. He stopped at the seat in front of me and crouched down with his head hung low and his back arched. He didn’t move for a while. It began to make me feel slightly nervous. Finally I couldn’t take it anymore so I stood up and leaned forward to see if he was alright. In hindsight I realize how naïve of me but at the time I didn’t think ahead. I stared at him for a bit before he whipped his head toward me and growled. The movement was so sudden and (to me) shocking that I shrieked as I fell back into my seat. I know I walked straight into that one. Afterwards let’s just say it was a long time before I heard the end of it. Anyway getting back to the point, I recently started getting into the harry potter series the way I didn’t as a kid. Every kid I knew though loved the HP series. Which series does everyone else prefer?