DroneRights [it/its]@lemm.ee to Shower Thoughts@kbin.socialEnglish · edit-21 year agoThe Hobbit is YAmessage-squaremessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
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minus-squarestarbreaker@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·11 months ago I don’t recall the story having explicit or otherwise harmful material for kids. Of course not; The Hobbit started out as bedtime stories Tolkien made up for his kids. But, to paraphrase the proverb, what happens in Rivendell stays in Rivendell. (Likewise for Lothlorien.)
minus-squareDamaskox@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·11 months agoYeah. I just don’t know what justifies a story to be rather an young adult story, if it would (otherwise?) fit (better) in a child’s story section 🤔 I mean - what makes The Hobbit an young adult story rather than a child’s? Violence? Sexual material?
minus-squarestarbreaker@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·11 months agoMarketing. YA is a marketing category, not a genre.
minus-squareDamaskox@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·11 months agoSo they use…a non-logical marketing category? Or there’s something I don’t understand 😅
minus-squarestarbreaker@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·11 months agoDon’t ask me, man. If I understood marketing or was any good at it I wouldn’t be fucking around with computers for a living.
Of course not; The Hobbit started out as bedtime stories Tolkien made up for his kids.
But, to paraphrase the proverb, what happens in Rivendell stays in Rivendell. (Likewise for Lothlorien.)
Yeah.
I just don’t know what justifies a story to be rather an young adult story, if it would (otherwise?) fit (better) in a child’s story section 🤔
I mean - what makes The Hobbit an young adult story rather than a child’s? Violence? Sexual material?
Marketing. YA is a marketing category, not a genre.
So they use…a non-logical marketing category?
Or there’s something I don’t understand 😅
Don’t ask me, man. If I understood marketing or was any good at it I wouldn’t be fucking around with computers for a living.