Potter slays Dark Lord in Readers’ Top 100 Books poll

The search to find the Top 100 books threw up some surprises when our readers responded, but the magic of ‘Harry Potter’ won out in the battle with ‘The Lord of the Rings’, writes Mark Evans.

HOW’s this for fantastic fiction mash-ups — Frodo Baggins tries desperately to defeat the Dark Lord, Voldemort, as he searches for the One Ring to rule the Muggle and wizarding worlds; and, Harry Potter tries desperately to defeat the Dark Lord, Sauron, as he exerts his evil to rule the inhabitants of Middle-earth.

Such fantasies may have only occurred to fans of both The Lord of the Rings and the Harry Potter series. And yet, the quest to find Ireland’s Top 100 books of all time featured a battle between those two epic tales in a bid to come out on top.