I was just thinking (forgive me if this has been said, I've only been able to skim the latest posts in this thread) that perhaps my problem with Tolkien parodies is that too many of them seem not to be poking fun at the books but at the readers, which I suppose I take seriously - we're just sad geeks, only fit for these 'sophisticates' to laugh at. Perhaps its 'mockeries', not parodies or satires, I have a problem with.
(Paranioid? Who me? Why are you saying that????
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