POLL: LotR, Tolkien and You

[Fingolfin of the Noldor]

Please answer these question to the best of your abilities. I am not looking for "right" answers simply your thoughts off-hand. Thank you for participating in my first and most important poll [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

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1. What is the theme of Lotr?
a. Power and its vices
b. Good and Evil
c. Death and Immortality
d. Power of the Small and Weak
e. War and Friendship

2. Is there as secondry theme? If so what is it?
a. Power and its vices
b. Good and Evil
c. Death and Immortality
d. Power of the Small and Weak
e. War and Friendship

3. Are there any contemporary references? If so please post your thoughts in the thread
Yes
No

4. What type of work is lotr?
a. Nostalgic
b. Contemporary
c. Forward-looking

5. How does lotr provide truths on the human condidtion?
a. Through metaphor
b. Through allegory
c. Through mythological icons
d. Through realism(exemplars)
e. Through pure fantasy

6. Which of the following moved you when you first read lotr?
(please check all that apply)

a. the sound of the horses of the Rohirrim at cockcrow
b. Gollum's faliure (just) to repentwhen interupted by Sam
c. Sam's disquisistion on the seamless web of story
d. the general sense of endless untold stories
e. the general heart racking sense of the vanishing past(best expressed by Gandlaf's words about the Plantiri)

7. Which of the following would you choose to characterized lotr?
(please choose all that apply)

a. exciting
b. generally enjoyable
c. moving
d. realistic
e. of deeper relevence imbeded in the stroy

8. How old were you when you first read lotr?


9. Do you feel you appriciation and understanding of of lotr increases with time?
Yes
No