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I always wonder why people attach the label to things like Tolkien or Star Wars that they are 'dangerous' because they attract devoted followings of fans who get really into the whole 'world' created. I've met few fans who really do go too far, and those for the most part are just eccentric anyway. And we never say the same things about football fans who have the same devotion, who will not have a red car or wear a blue shirt for example if it is representative of a team they hate. When you listen in to blokes talking through the minutiae of the weekend's footie results on a Monday morning at work, you don't think "Tch! Geeks!" but really they are just as 'geeky' as a bunch of Tolkien fans arguing about Balrog wings.
As for people who think Tolkien is sinister 'devil worship' and then suddenly take an interest because someone tells them he was a Catholic, well, that's a little worrying to me. Makes you wonder how much control their 'leaders' have over them! Likewise the people who make up the largest group of 'disapprovers' that I know, namely the type who think they are snootily 'above such things' as Tolkien, the cod-Intelligentsia.
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