Are these the fifty you would have chosen?

[Gorwingel]

Interesting list, interesting order, and I have to agree that it is way too movie-centric.

I have to admit though that I really am not familiar with many of the names on the list. Mainly just the writers and scholars of Tolkien's works. I think though that he tried to come up with a list of the people who would have been mentioned the most times in a Biography of Tolkien and LOTR. And I think that if you look at it from that angle then many of the choices make sense.

But, even though PJ would have been talked about a lot, and I guess that he is the one who I should owe my Tolkien fandom too because of the films, I still don't think that he belongs at number one.