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And what a bang you come in with!
Estelyn , may I humbly reccomend you move this to the books for a perhaps broader ranging discussion?
Well in biref [ as I need to run out the door] He is right in that no one should loose their job as a critic or editor or whatever for disliking Tolkien [ although it certainly might effect future hirings [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] ] as to his review of LotR as recycled Norse myths with bad grammar and also 'escapism', he needs to read Author of the Century by Shippey, it blows this facile charge into it's constituent atoms where they can be profitably recylced.
As for the bit about the movies, he was prob accurate in assesing the motives for attendence. I have a fair bit of that in me.
Of course who wouldn't after having read it too many times!
Fundamentalist's of Tolkien though, it is true, do no one any good, least of all themselves.
[ March 24, 2003: Message edited by: lindil ]
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The dwindling Men of the West would often sit up late into the night exchanging lore & wisdom such as they still possessed that they should not fall back into the mean estate of those who never knew or indeed rebelled against the Light.
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