Why is it so difficult?

[Morthoron]

FlimFlamSam types, FlimFlamSam opines, but FlimFlamSam seems incapable of using the quote button at the bottom right-hand corner of each post, thus irritating other posters by taking their quotations out of context and jumbling his hyperbole in with their points. Here's an example for FlimFlamSam to follow:

Originally Posted by FlimFlamSam

I've already said I was deeply immersed in it on both a reading level and scholarly level for nearly 30 years. Now--get it away from me!
Almost like a bad marriage that was once good.

How odd it is for someone to have allegedly studied an author's corpus on a "scholarly" level for three decades, but then suddenly become jaded on the subject or, rather, the foundational aspects of the material (which act as cosmological underpinnings for a grandly epochal subcreated mythos). One might think, on a strictly cynical level, that using the term "flim flam" as a nom de guerre is far too apt in this case to be coincidental.

[Nerwen]

Originally Posted by Morthoron

How odd it is for someone to have allegedly studied an author's corpus on a "scholarly" level for three decades, but then suddenly become jaded on the subject or, rather, the foundational aspects of the material (which act as cosmological underpinnings for a grandly epochal subcreated mythos). One might think, on a strictly cynical level, that using the term "flim flam" as a nom de guerre is far too apt in this case to be coincidental.

Originally Posted by Lady Brooke

I've heard of slow readers, but really? It took you 30 years to realize you didn't like a book? Wow. You must have read a word a day.

Indeed. I don't like to accuse anyone of outright lying, but I must say that I too am finding this "30 years of meticulous scholarship" business very hard to believe. I mean, all this sounds to me much more like somebody who has only recently dipped into Tolkien's non–LotR writings, and become infuriated that they didn't fit whatever his preconceptions were.

EDIT:X'd with Mr FlimFlam himself.

[Nerwen]

Originally Posted by FlimFlam

Morthoron spoke: [but then suddenly become jaded on the subject or, rather, the foundational aspects of the material.]
Suddenly? Nope.
Nor am I new here. Well, I haven't posted for about 10-12 years here or thereabouts, so I guess that does make me new or a newcomer in a manner of speaking.
The people who knew me best back then; HerenIstarion, Mithadan, Tar-Elenion, Lindil and a few others are most likely no longer here and I have not checked on their status as of yet.

The first two mentioned are still around. Perhaps they can shed some light on this.

Originally Posted by FlimFlam

I have done some criticism of Mr Tolkien and his work. That seems to upset some people--in some cases deeply. Oh well.

Once again– it was not the bare fact of your criticising Tolkien's work, which you are welcome to do, it was the manner in which you did it.

[FlimFlamSam]

Nerwen spoke: [The first two mentioned are still around. Perhaps they can shed some light on this.]
Thank you for the information.

I have passed through fire and Tolkien internet death and have come back at the turn of the tide.
If it matters that much to you, grab your phial and call out "A Elbereth Gilthoniel!"

[Nerwen]

Originally Posted by FlimFlam

Since then, my gag-reflex towards those materials, including UT, and everything else not strictly Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit has taken irreversible hold.

Then there's not much point your posting about it on a discussion forum, is there?

Originally Posted by FlimFlam

I have summarized my views in appropriate threads and paraphrased some letters and posted on fairly recent topics in others

Oh yes. I was actually about to ask if you were, er, let's say acquainted with a certain other recent member who showed much the same strange pattern of simultaneous trolling on some threads and "scholarly" posting on others. But then I remembered he was amenable to using the quote button.

[Nerwen]

Btw., I should have should have said "the first three"– lindil is also still active.

[Galin]

Saulotus

[Nerwen]

Originally Posted by Galin

Saulotus

Yeppers.

[Inziladun]

Originally Posted by FlimFlamSam

The people who knew me best back then; HerenIstarion, Mithadan, Tar-Elenion, Lindil and a few others are most likely no longer here and I have not checked on their status as of yet. They knew The Silmarillion had burned me out back then, and one of the reasons I left.

And they might know you still, if you were posting under your original account. By the way, what was your forum handle then?

Originally Posted by Galin

Saulotus

I'd wondered about that. But I'd thought he was gone for good, for another reason having nothing to do with the forum.