[Kalimac]

Bill Ferny, you took the words out of my mouth and furthermore said it about a hundred times better than I could have [Hands Bill a virtual apple in appreciation]. In terms of "greeniness" I'm not really tremendously into it or against it, but I have to say that when you can tell what conclusions the special will draw after 10 minutes of watching, well, we've got a bit of a problem. And while it's doubtless true that seeing the brutal form industrialization took in WWI influenced Tolkien heavily (whether he was consciously thinking of it while writing LOTR is another matter), leaving out his Catholicism was just stupid; though there is no specific religion mentioned in the books, they are heavily infused with a very religious sense of things. (The scenes where Sam and Frodo are trekking across Mordor - yes, Mordor has been blasted by Sauron and his unnatural creations, but what gets Sam and Frodo THROUGH? Faith and hope, that's what). And as you say Bill, at least we can be assured that Tolkien has been enshrined in the same pantheon as Annan and Carter. I wonder what JRRT would have thought of that? (Ignore that rolling sound in his grave, please).