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So I think that Brin and friends are not wrong merely in that they read LotR as a political work.~Aiwendil
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Well said, and why did Tolkien write the Lord of the Rings? Well, let's see what he says:
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'I hope that you have enjoyed The Lord of the Rings? Enjoyed is the key-word. For it was written to amuse (in the highest sense): to be readable.'~Letter 181
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Then you get people like Brin and Birzer (someone else I'm not too fond of) who like to attach their own personal agendas to the story, which starts to ruin the fun for readers...as I took from
tumhalad's original post.
But with those people such as Brin who interestingly enough (and you can tell just by reading the article) admits to not really 'reading' the story:
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"All right, I read Tolkien's epic trilogy a bit unconventionally, starting with The Two Towers and backfilling as I went along."
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who do a shoddy job of research and just start attaching their own agendas to the story to push their point.