Those are all things that I would write down in regards to Tolkien and his effect on society. This is kind of a hard question because this is about all I could think about. Though I did look at a Time article from a little while ago that was very negative about all fantasy writing, and one of the major things that they bring up is that the stories could cause trouble because they cause people to instead of facing the troubles in the future run towards the past. They talk about mainly how the world of Middle Earth can be too simple for todays complicated society, and that the story does not prepare young people for today's world. Everything is either evil or good, there is no grey area in between.
It can basically be said that Middle Earth is too simple, bad influence on today's society, the enemies that we face are not so simple, makes us run away from current issues.
The person who wrote this thinks it is a negative.
EDIT: that is kind of the same as backward thinking, but it kind of goes into more detail.
[ June 09, 2003: Message edited by: Gorwingel ]
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