Lord of the Rings Trilogy is Better than the Harry Potter Trilogy

ARGUMENT 1 - Stats, Characters, & Uniqueness Combined the 3 books of the LotR sold 150 million, while the Philosopher's Stone sold 107. Factor in a ratio disproportion of sells, PS sold more books than any single LotR book including the Hobbit (100 million). Thus more individual persons have read PS than individuals have read all four original LotR books. Concluding there was more appealing in a preteen geeky boy destined to kick the butt of the biggest baddest schizophrenic villain in his universe than midgets, super-midgets, barbarians, and octogenarians battling an evil ball of fire in their universe. Harry Potter's HBP & DH both sold 11 million copies in 24 hours. No such feat exist for any LotR books. As of November 2012, the HP franchise has made $24 billion dollars. http://appliedunificationism.com... According to author Sammi Vanderstok, "The Harry Potter books are the number one selling book series ever published. The Harry Potter movies are the highest grossing film series of all time." Above Link. HP has Quidditch, an in-universe sport, to which no other fantasy story on paper can claim such a unique concept--a fully multidimensional sporting event that occurs several times throughout the story No, not even LotR. HP has been translated into 67+ languages. http://news.bbc.co.uk... LotR, umm, 38. Almost half of the Boy Who Lived series. https://web.archive.org... HP films combined $4.5 billion. LotR combined. $2.9 billion. Let's not argue LotR only has 3 to HP's 7. Even if we measure financial success per film, then HP still Avada Kedavra's LotR in the butt! PS $974; CoS $878; PoA $796; GoF $896; OotP $939; HBP $934; DH1 $960; DH2 $1.3 FotR $871; TT $926; RotK $1.1 ARGUMENT 2 - Cultural Influence In July 2012, The Department of Sociology and the Interaction Design Centre at Limerick University called "for papers for the above international academic conference exploring the cultural Influence of the Harry Potter books and films." Educationalists have credited HP books in Western countries as well as in India & South African to increasing the literacy of children in those regions more than "a year's worth of school reading texts. This greatly improves children's skills and their motivation to read." "In Defense of Harry Potter: An Apologia" LotR, well, no such benefit to children's literacy is documented. We must admit that anything the directly benefits the education of children (HP) is "better" than something that doesn't (LotR). Joyce Fields wrote that the books illustrate four of the five main topics in a typical first-year sociology class: "sociological concepts including culture, society, and socialization; stratification and social inequality; social institutions; and social theory"."Harry Potter, Benjamin Bloom, and the Sociological Imagination" The only cultural influence LotR is significantly documented to have popularized is "Frodo Lives!" and "Gandalf for President". Carpenter, Humphrey (2000). J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography. "Harry Potter has reached out to an estimate of 200 countries, spoke out in over 69 languages and has touched the lives of more than 400 million people. It is the phenomenon that ignores race, age, gender or religion and it has brought us together despite all our differences. We are the Harry Potter Generation." http://www.teenink.com...