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Good points, but I don't think "geek" is quite the right word, since Harry Potter appeals to a much younger audience. It will be interesting to see what happens when the Harry Potter generation grows up. Will they pass on the book to their children and will the children read it themselves? Or will it be forgotten? About the Hobbit: do kids and young people still read that stuff, or is it just Seventies relics reliving their own younger days?

[John Farson]

I first read the books in middle school in the early 1990s. My parents did not introduce me to Tolkien -- it was another kid.