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I like Tolkien, you like Tolkien, but some people don't like Tolkien and they are entitled to their opinions, and indeed to voice those opinions in print - what with living in a free society and all that.
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Absolutely right, Lalaith. I am the first to the barricades when it comes to defending free speech.
I was more interested in considering why the Oscar win seems to have brought forth a plethora of anti-LotR sentiment. I deem that it is because people who have a particular dislike for something feel a need to make a stand when it acheives such acclaim.
But I see little point in railing againt this journalist. We all (here) feel outraged when we read things like this because we vehemently disagree with the sentiments expressed. Particularly so when they are expressed so crudley. But, really, what does it matter? People have their opinions (and this particular opinon stops short of the libellous, however badly expressed and offensive it may be). And they are entitled to them. We can't change them, so there is little point expending the effort trying to do so.
As you say, some people (like us) enjoy Tolkien's works. Others (like this journalist) dislike them. That will never change. By my final point in my last post, I meant to say that there seem to be an awful lot more people that share our opinion (albeit, in most cases, a little less passionately) than that of this journalist.