Warlock SM Ruin <| sep |> Something like Harry Potter is written with the intent of being young adult literature . That ' s WHY you teach Shakespeare you know , to break the comfort zone and LEARN ? There ' s nothing to learn from HP , it ' s pure escapism written at an upper elementary school level . Tolkien is at least somewhat linguistically artful and has some creative vision , so I won ' t argue him for middle school . made up by the author . One or two famous examples the others were little more than loans from French or Latin which are now part of the English language and which students should learn some of . Shakespeare ' s language is barely out of date , it ' s just dense because , you know , it ' s poetry . A few apostrophe ' d words and an occasional rarer french loan word is easily overcome . Have you ever read any Shakespeare or did you zone off in class ? And people wonder why schools produce lame results ?