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Carannillion · 01-30-2002, 05:55 PM

And besides, it's written by a professor of philology at Oxford, one of the most popular books ever, and so on, and so on. How acn it possibly be a crappy book if it is?

And you know, the article is so one-sided and simple-minded that it makes me want to puke...

I can agree to some critisism of LotR - a little critisism never really hurt anybody - but this guy is simply banging the book in his own head; he is perhaps jealous, or maybe his parents made him eat its pages when he was little? I don't know, I just can't see how he can hack at this literary work as if it was crap?

01-30-2002, 05:55 PM	#1
Carannillion Wight Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Mici Firya Posts: 135	And besides, it's written by a professor of philology at Oxford, one of the most popular books ever, and so on, and so on. How acn it possibly be a crappy book if it is? And you know, the article is so one-sided and simple-minded that it makes me want to puke... I can agree to some critisism of LotR - a little critisism never really hurt anybody - but this guy is simply banging the book in his own head; he is perhaps jealous, or maybe his parents made him eat its pages when he was little? I don't know, I just can't see how he can hack at this literary work as if it was crap? __________________ A cry for the people, but there's noone there to hear...