Rowling’s dream setting beats off Skyrim, Alice’s Wonderland, Gotham City and Narnia in listings
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HARRY Potter’s Hogwarts has been crowned the “most beautiful fictional world of all time”.
The magical setting, imagined by Edinburgh-based author JK Rowling, came top in a study which analysed online posts and searches.
It beat Skyrim from the roleplaying video game and Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland in the rankings, with Gotham City, home to Batman, and C.S. Lewis’s Narnia, completing the top five. Researchers analysed the visual allure of the fictional worlds to find the most inspiring.
Each world was awarded a score out of 100 based on average monthly Google searches, Instagram hashtags and Pinterest posts. Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, often said to have been inspired by George Heriot’s School in Edinburgh, was crowned top with a score of 97.83, after boasting 8,504,357
Insta posts and over 3129 monthly Google searches.
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Skyrim, the frostbitten realm of the Nords, scored 86.5 out of 100, boasting 3835 monthly Google searches and 1,931,112 hashtags on Instagram. A central part of the Elder Scrolls saga, Skyrim was fantaStiC the original
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Gotham City ( 61.4/ 100) was hailed as “a living, breathing character, depicted vividly across comics, movies, and television series”, while Narnia ( 54.4 / 100) enchanted fans with its tales of magic, myth, and monarchy.
The top 10 fictional worlds also included Baldur’s Gate, Zion, Middle Earth, Atlantis and Equestria.
A spokesman for entertainment site CSGO Luck, which did the research, said: “The study not only unveils the most enchanting fictional settings of our time but also offers a deeper understanding of what draws people into these worlds.”