[The Squatter of Amon Rûdh]

Of course, criticism is almost always deserved and healthy

Not when I'm the critic. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

I see criticism as being like the little girl of the nursery rhyme: when it's good it's very, very good and when it's bad it's horrid. Poor Professor Tolkien does seem to provoke a lot of bad criticism. Even his lecturing style was panned by some people (there's an oblique and modestly sarcastic reference to this in his Valedictory Address).