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Birdland · 05-10-2002, 11:31 AM

I think when those tragic events were still very fresh in our minds, and we were all still feeling raw emotions to the horrors of the attack, then people were over-sensitive to anything that seemed to be even a vague reminder of those painful images. <P>Time has put those feeling in perspective for most of us (though I can't speak for people who lost loved ones in the attack.) For myself, when I here The Two Towers, I think of Tolkien, and that his title represents two cultures across vast distances, and the conflicts that they represent in the book. <P>When I hear "The Twin Towers", the images are very different. The two phrases are distinct in my mind. One does not conjure up images of the other. <P>Funny that this petition should be started on the Net, because I've seen far more tackier "homages" to September 11th there, and question the wisdom of the people responsible. But I would not include Tolkien or Peter Jackson in that group.

05-10-2002, 11:31 AM	#7
Birdland Ghastly Neekerbreeker Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: the banks of the mighty Scioto Posts: 1,751	I think when those tragic events were still very fresh in our minds, and we were all still feeling raw emotions to the horrors of the attack, then people were over-sensitive to anything that seemed to be even a vague reminder of those painful images. <P>Time has put those feeling in perspective for most of us (though I can't speak for people who lost loved ones in the attack.) For myself, when I here The Two Towers, I think of Tolkien, and that his title represents two cultures across vast distances, and the conflicts that they represent in the book. <P>When I hear "The Twin Towers", the images are very different. The two phrases are distinct in my mind. One does not conjure up images of the other. <P>Funny that this petition should be started on the Net, because I've seen far more tackier "homages" to September 11th there, and question the wisdom of the people responsible. But I would not include Tolkien or Peter Jackson in that group.