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Old 09-08-2007, 08:26 AM   #12
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Originally Posted by Aiwendil View Post
True enough, I suppose. On the other hand, I'm a leftist, humanist, anti-religious, pro-science, social democrat and LotR is my favorite book. And unless I'm quite mistaken a sizeable fraction of Tolkien fandom is similarly leftist. So either we're quite irrational or the conflict that people like Brin and Pullman see between liberal secularism and Tolkien's works is not quite as severe as they think it is.
Perhaps the difference is best explained in that you, Aiwendil, accept Tolkien's myth for what it is, whereas your like-minded counterparts fail to understand that "Tolkien wasn't writing a political book", to quote Mr. W.C. Hickli.
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