My English teacher believes Tolkien has no literary merit....

[Vampyr]

My english teacher thinks the EXACT SAME THING. She LOVES Lord of the Rings, but she claims that it doesn't have "literary merit". I hate people like that, who think that the only literature that can be deep and symbolic is the kind about people killing each other or going to war or about some black family who was mistreated. I am so god damn tired of reading about mistreated minorities.

Anyway, just to prove you're teacher wrong: A good friend of mine took the AP English test a few years ago, and on the essay question asking about a book with "Literary Merit" he chose to write about Ender's Game.

The english teacher I was talking about nearly choked him for it.

He got a 4 on his test.

So screw all the people who say fantasy and sci-fi don't have literary merit.