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But that's the point. Why should you 'respect' Tolkien if you don't like his work? He isn't a God, or the head of a religion, he's an author. Saying you don't like his works, even if you express yourself very forcefully as this journo has done, is fair comment, not blasphemy or libel, as some of you seem to be implying.
As Saucepan Man points out, there are a fair few articles like this around at the moment, and I think the reasons are as follows:
Firstly, Tolkien and LotR are *everywhere* right now. If you really don't like Tolkien, that would be pretty annoying.
Secondly - journalism prefers 'man bites dog', to 'dog bites man.'
So articles going, "hey, everyone seems to like Tolkien at the moment and guess what, so do I," would not be considered particularly interesting. Hence the plethora of 'oh God I can't stand this Tolkien mania' articles in the papers.
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