Christopher Tolkien at it again.... - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

davem · 05-29-2011, 01:29 AM

Bit by bit every element of our culture is being taken into private hands - even our shared history, which is effectively an attempt to stake a claim to our memories & what has made us what we are. History could then be re-written to suit the owners of the Copyright on it.

Still, as long as it stops some obscure Texan author being able to put JRR Tolkien in a novel that a few hundred people will read its worth it.....

(Puts on Helen Lovejoy voice: 'Won't somebody pleeease think of the Tolkien children!")

05-29-2011, 01:29 AM	#28
davem Illustrious Ulair Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: In the home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names,and impossible loyalties Posts: 4,240	Bit by bit every element of our culture is being taken into private hands - even our shared history, which is effectively an attempt to stake a claim to our memories & what has made us what we are. History could then be re-written to suit the owners of the Copyright on it. Still, as long as it stops some obscure Texan author being able to put JRR Tolkien in a novel that a few hundred people will read its worth it..... (Puts on Helen Lovejoy voice: 'Won't somebody pleeease think of the Tolkien children!") __________________ “Everything was an object. If you killed a dwarf you could use it as a weapon – it was no different to other large heavy objects."