Banning Tolkien, some questions

[Lalaith]

Iarwain, for what it's worth, you and I have the same opinions on capital punishment...
As for your other points, juries do judge, they have to judge whether someone is innocent or guilty. But your own position of not judging others is an admirable one.
As for these schools not forcing others, the people who run them are of course not in a position of authority over anyone but their students. But what if they were...
I wonder what Tolkien himself would have made of all this. He was, like a lot of mid 20th century writers, preoccupied with tyranny, but unlike writers such as Orwell, did not as far as I remember make literary links between tyranny and censorship. Unlike Big Brother, I don't think Morgoth, Sauron or Saruman ever practiced censorship - the visible evidence of their tyranny was environmental ruin and enslavement.