[Child of the 7th Age]

Nenya,<P>You are more kind hearted than I am! No, I'm not losing any sleep over this, but I still think there's something in what I say. There's an awful lot of oversimplification going on right now. Of course, that makes the insightful pieces of journalism stand out all the more. <P>To me, that journalist's comments on how PJ turned fantasy into history shows that he had never really read the original. Yes, PJ could have messed up, and he didn't. But there's no question that Tolkien's writings clearly have the flavor of history, and he said many times that M-E is our own world. I think that someone who does a feature article of this sort should know something basic like this. <P>And Frodo as Michael Corleone? His whole point is that Frodo failed and so did Corleone. But so did all the other tragic heroes in the entire body of world literature. By that standard, Frodo could be King Arthur or any of the heroes of the ancient Greek theater. These make as much or more sense than a modern mobster! <P>sharon