The author sounds so extremeist with his far-fetched ideas and excessive use of the word "occult" that I'd almost be tempted to think it was supposed to be a satire, or something. It wouldn't be terribly hard to turn it into one - it almost mocks itself. But the fact that it's true...that's just sad, and a bit frightening.
But you know what I noticed...he never really specificed exactly why these books are representative of the "occult". He just says that they are, and if you read them you're the spawn of the devil, and so on and so forth. The only arguement why that I can see is that they both contain characters who are referred to as wizards and who practice what is referred to as magic. Is that it? Is that his only reasoning? Has he even read just a few pages, a chapter, of anything? If you're going to try to make an arguement, you're not going to get any where if you don't supply any kind of reasoning behind that argument.
I, for one, although I am sure they would be just as ridiculous as the rest of the writing, would like to know his exact reasons why these things are evil. Pick something from one of the books, from LotR maybe, some kind of specific event involving the "occult", and have him explain exactly why it is evil. I would like to know his reasons. Because, I'll bet, if we somehow were able to get him to do that, there wouldn't actually be any reasons there. Because it doesn't make sense.
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