Will people still like LotR in 3000 years???

[Lord of Angmar]

I really doubt that it will be remembered at all in 5003, or if it is, it will be as well known as Caedmon's poem.

Good, idea, Iarwain, comparing Professor Tolkien to Caedmon. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] I think that whatever the state of humanity may be in 3000 years, Tolkien's work will be obscure, although there is a chance that it could be remembered and studied as an epic just as the Odyssey and the Iliad are today.

The ideal (for the book itself) will be that it will be considered as mythology

I have also considered how wonderful it would be for a future race or civilization, be it humanity in the future or an alien civilization, to translate Tolkien's books and take them for a complex mythology or even some sort of skewed history of the world.

[ September 10, 2003: Message edited by: Lord of Angmar ]