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Old 08-30-2011, 09:21 PM   #22
Galadriel55
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Originally Posted by Inziladun View Post
If only the political sorts would take the lessons from LOTR to heart the world might be a better place, or at least a more pleasant one.
Professor@Uni: Now students, since you're all going to be polititians in the years to come, the first thing that I have to warn you about is one dreadfully tricky political situation: we call it the Saruman's Noose.



Seriously though, I couldn't agree more.

I think what puts LOTR below Mockingbird in a polititian's eyes is that LOTR is a "long ago" story, with hardly any practical use today. And it's fantasy. "More serious novels" are probably those that are more relevant to today's life.

But I still strongly protest against classifying it as "just an adventure book".
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