A new anti-Tolkien critique - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

tumhalad2 · 09-21-2012, 01:45 AM

This is an apparently comical (though serious in intent) "takedown" of Tolkien. Why anyone feels the need to write an entire ebook taking Tolkien down is beyond me but each to their own. As I can't access it (it's a kindle ebook), it'd be cool if someone downloaded it, read it and posted their thoughts here. I'd be keen to know what he says.

How Tolkien Sucks

***quite by accident I posted this in the wrong forum, I was obviously aiming for "The Books" section. Be great if this could be moved over, thanks.

Mithalwen · 09-21-2012, 03:55 AM

I have a train journey today I will read, digest and report later ... it is only 35 pages but you do wonder what market he is aiming at.. laters..

Mithalwen · 09-21-2012, 04:19 AM

Right have finished it..save your seventy seven pences. He hates Tolkien, he hates the history, the geography, the languages, the songs, makes various factual errors, claim you can't tell who is speaking when virtually every character has their own ideolect. Basically he hates middle earth and just wants an action movie. Seemingly involving drunken Lesbian gunslingers.

Draw your own conclusions. It is just a smart alecky rant.

Inziladun · 09-21-2012, 05:44 AM

I don't have access to a Kindle either, so thanks for biting the bullet there, Mith. Does that guy think he's the only person in the world to ever dislike Tolkien's works? Sounds like a total waste of time.

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Originally Posted by Mithalwen

Basically he hates middle earth and just wants an action movie. Seemingly involving drunken Lesbian gunslingers.

Don't give PJ any ideas!

William Cloud Hicklin · 09-21-2012, 11:23 AM

What sort of person can be moved to compose 35 pages just to prove to the world he's a sloped-forehead retard? This is the sort of 'argumentation' we remember from the high school dunderhead who called everything beyond the tiny reach of his comprehension "stoopid."

Dilettante · 09-22-2012, 12:28 PM

I do have a Kindle, but I don't really feel like throwing myself on an Orc-spear in the name of research. (Thank you Mithalwen for saving us all the pain.)

I do wonder at times about people like this. They think that deconstructing everything they encounter somehow makes them superior to the rest of us. In reality, it shows them for the "sloped-forehead retard" (very apt description) they are.

09-21-2012, 01:45 AM	#1
tumhalad2 Haunting Spirit Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 95	A new anti-Tolkien critique This is an apparently comical (though serious in intent) "takedown" of Tolkien. Why anyone feels the need to write an entire ebook taking Tolkien down is beyond me but each to their own. As I can't access it (it's a kindle ebook), it'd be cool if someone downloaded it, read it and posted their thoughts here. I'd be keen to know what he says. How Tolkien Sucks ***quite by accident I posted this in the wrong forum, I was obviously aiming for "The Books" section. Be great if this could be moved over, thanks.

09-21-2012, 03:55 AM	#2
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,449	Your wish is my command... I have a train journey today I will read, digest and report later ... it is only 35 pages but you do wonder what market he is aiming at.. laters.. __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace

09-21-2012, 04:19 AM	#3
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,449	Right have finished it..save your seventy seven pences. He hates Tolkien, he hates the history, the geography, the languages, the songs, makes various factual errors, claim you can't tell who is speaking when virtually every character has their own ideolect. Basically he hates middle earth and just wants an action movie. Seemingly involving drunken Lesbian gunslingers. Draw your own conclusions. It is just a smart alecky rant. __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace

09-21-2012, 11:23 AM	#5
William Cloud Hicklin Loremaster of Annúminas Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 2,305	What sort of person can be moved to compose 35 pages just to prove to the world he's a sloped-forehead retard? This is the sort of 'argumentation' we remember from the high school dunderhead who called everything beyond the tiny reach of his comprehension "stoopid." __________________ The entire plot of The Lord of the Rings could be said to turn on what Sauron didn’t know, and when he didn’t know it.

09-22-2012, 12:28 PM	#6
Dilettante Animated Skeleton Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: As my whimsey takes me. Posts: 43	I do have a Kindle, but I don't really feel like throwing myself on an Orc-spear in the name of research. (Thank you Mithalwen for saving us all the pain.) I do wonder at times about people like this. They think that deconstructing everything they encounter somehow makes them superior to the rest of us. In reality, it shows them for the "sloped-forehead retard" (very apt description) they are. __________________ "One equal temper of heroic hearts,Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will. To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. " Tennyson, Ulysses