I'm also a LoTR buff.
Never played Dragonlance, or Shadowrun, but I played a few sessions of Dungeons and Dragons real late in the diner. ( Dragonlance and Shadowrun are spin offs of the original D&D, am I right..? ) Also Vampire the Masquerade, Werewolf the Apocalypse. (Whitewolf stuff.) I've heard that Shadowrun is macabre, and Dragonlance is a more violent game. I may be wrong. I played a few sessions of D&D awhile back. Played a goddamn monk. I was forced to be 5th level because I joining mid game and everyone else had leveled up. No one wanted me in the group initially. I have now become a 7th level nerd and everyone has free reign to make fun of me from now on. I am a dork. Sue me. Took me hours to do my stats because I suck at that part. I'd rather just role play. But those kids and their dice... I don't need a perfect twenty to tell me how much I rock.
I can't wait to see the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe.
On Harry Potter:
The first book, and the first movie or so will indicate that the series is for children. Then you read book 4, and how bizarre it begins to get. You see movie 4, The Goblet of Fire, and it's gruesome to children. Voldemort comes off as some sort of insane weirdo played by Ralph Fiennes who leans up near Potter and says, " I couldn't touch you then... but I can touch you now.." And presses his fingers against his forehead while leaning really close to the kid and looking very... psychotic. ( And also really hot. But I am sick in the head, so pay me no mind.)
And, yes, when I saw the DeathEaters in the movie I thought they were the KKK of the Wizarding World.
