Dave, Please look at Decentfilms.com and add Stephan Greydanus's commentary on Harry Potter compared to LotR. It is a very intellegent.
As for me and mine. My children are free to read Harry Potter, after they turn 21.
Is it pro or con? Could you just give us the link for this combox? Thanks!
Coincidentally, I received via e-mail recommendations of several "anti-Harry Potter" articles:
"Harry Potter and the Great Divide", by Mark Mallett
http://www.markmallett.com/blog/?p=504
Pope Benedict XVI's comments in 2005:
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005...l/
05071301.html
Vatican's Chief Exorcist Repeats Condemnation of Harry Potter Novels
http://www.freerepublic.com/focu...n/1694152/
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See also:
" Pope Benedict XVI and Harry Potter" [Against the Grain blog]
http://www.ratzingerfanclub.com/...rry-
potter.html
"Catholic church stands up for Harry Potter"
(Tuesday February 4, 2003
Guardian Unlimited)
http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/
...,888638,00.html
"Harry Potter: The archetype of an abortion survivor," Marie Peeters-Ney, MD and Philip G. Ney, MD [Catholic Insight]
Issue: December 2003
http://catholicinsight.com/
onlin...ticle_746.shtml
"Judging Harry Potter," Fr. Alfonso Aguilar, LC
September 2-8, 2007 Issue [National Catholic Register]
http://ncregister.com/site/article/3663/
"No Catholic Consensus," Tim Ryland [This Rock], July-August 2001
http://www.catholic.com/thisrock.../
0107fea1sb.asp
On-Line article links [Our Sunday Visitor]
http://www.osv.com/BooksNav/TheM...89/
Default.aspx
"Harry Potter film harbours Christian themes" Peggy Weber, Catholic News Service
Thursday, 12 July 2007 [The Catholic register]
http://www.catholicregister.org/...t/view/926/854/
"Religious debates over the Harry Potter series" [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Rel...y_Potter_series
Church approval of Harry Potter [EWTN: 8-23-07]
http://ewtn.com/vexperts/showmes...9&
number=509451
"Harry Potter Is Harmless"
[St. Anthony Messenger]
http://www.americancatholic.org/...1/
editorial.asp
I saved Martin the trouble looking this up:
"Harry Potter vs. Gandalf: An in-depth analysis of the literary use of magic in the works of J. K. Rowling, J. R. R. Tolkien, and C. S. Lewis", Steven D. Greydanus [Decent Films Guide]
http://www.decentfilms.com/secti...cles/
magic.html
See related article (same author):
"Faith and Fantasy: Tolkien the Catholic, The Lord of the Rings, and Peter Jackson’s Film Trilogy"
http://www.decentfilms.com/
secti...andfantasy.html
Thanks.
SDG, w/out condemning HP, points out that there are real differeces between LotR and HP magic. He outlines (7?) "hedges" that protect the reader of LotR from becomming magic obsessed.
Nevertheless, I cannot imagine a more influencial text in the modern D&D, elfin, magic world. At least til HP.
I haven't read more than the 1st book of HP so my op matters little but, from the 1st page of LotR I found good and evil clearly delineated. I must only wonder about the rest of HP.
I just used all of todays tme off to write this (from myphone) so reading the balance of HP is not in my near future. meanwhile my children will go "potterless" for the forceable future.
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