Harry Potter vs. Lord of the Rings

In the world of entertainment getting the audience's attention is key, while both of these books later turned movies effectively hook the audience they each do them in very differently. Harry Potter written by J.K. Rowling uses immature prose style that allows the predominantly younger readers to connection with the main characters, as if they were in the story themselves. On the other hand, Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien used his mastery of literature and style to create a novel that hooked the older and more mature readers through a complex plot line and rhetorical strategies. The story lines for each book are both different but at the same similar because they each start using basic trite ideas, magic and fantasy adventure. Both have a single main character that has a group of companions that have to face adversity to defeat the ultimate evil. But Tolkien advances his story creating multiple races and territories; when Rowling's story is very focused on Hogwarts and the small magical community. The argument between which story is better is all in the eye of the beholder, but Harry Potter is obviously more focused on younger readers while Lord of the Rings is focused on more mature readers, thus I personally believe that Lord of the Rings is a better novel, movie, and overall more entertaining.