A brief introduction about my hobby Hello, everyone, this is my first post. My name is Cherie, a student are now studying in UK. I am a native speaker of Mandarin. I wish one day I can speak and write fluent English because I want to study English literature for MA. I love literature and history. Now I am reading LOTR and Harry Potter, and some classics. Before I started to read English version of Harry Potter, I have done the Chinese version. I didn't think the series are very attractive for me. When I started the original version, I have totally different reading experience about HP. The original version showed me many marvellous images about western magical world. I got many knowledges about western legendary and mythical creatures. The original version and translated ones are very different, for example JK wrote a creature in HP, goblin, an legendary creature who run Gringotts Wizarding Bank. In Chinese version, they translated goblin for “妖精” in Chinese. This is an obscure concept in Chinese means "elf". If I read English verison, it very easy to figure out an image about goblin, a mythical creature with spiky ears, and they love money。 However the translated verison just not make any sense about the real image about goblin. Now I think HP is very wonderful story. It told me a lot knowledge about mythical creature and folklore in the concept of western tradition. As for J.R.R Tolkien, I have to say the English of LOTR is really difficult, I can't read it as fast as I read HP, but the coverage of myths and folklore are more extensive.