Teacher's Bad Rowling Advice

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Originally Posted by Lalwendë

The public image of Tolkien doesn't exactly make a big deal out of the fact that he loved a lot of popular fiction himself (Asimov and H Rider Haggard, for example); instead it focuses on the more 'high-brow' stuff he liked. So his public image is that he spent his hours in reading sagas and the Eddas and Beowulf and the like...

The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein loved the cinema, especially Hollywood action-films (in thirties and fourties)! And he was the most grim and gritty one indeed, more serious than an apocalyptic.

Hitler loved the popular movies as well, but that's going to require another explanation... or does it?

The popular image of these two are also kind if edited...