LotR, an Edwardian Adventure Story?

[davem]

Originally Posted by Formendacil

For Davem it concerns. The thought occurred to me, reading the idea herein that "Preachiness is Englishness" that Davem, one of the most "English" of 'Downers from my point of view, certainly fits this narrow vision of what is English. For, from my point of view, Davem's mode of posting is rather... preachy.

As an impartial observer, can I just say that I feel it would be more accurate to describe davem's approach as argumentative, rather than preachy, as he has no interest in converting anybody (& probably if he did 'convert' anybody he'd start arguing with them). He has always come across to me as someone who wanted to get people to think for themselves & not just blindly accept other's opinions. I think he's probably the closeset thing to a modern Socrates one could find.

(He also gets bored easily, & as a result posts a lot of dubious stuff - luckily there's no harm in him