POLL: LotR, Tolkien and You

[Elven-Maiden]

1. What is the theme of Lotr?
b. Good and Evil

2. Is there as secondry theme? If so what is it?
a. Power and its vices

3. Are there any contemporary references? If so please post your thoughts in the thread
Yes, but I can't think of any at the moment

4. What type of work is lotr?
c. Forward-looking

5. How does lotr provide truths on the human condidtion?
e. Through pure fantasy

6. Which of the following moved you when you first read lotr?
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?
b. generally enjoyable
c. moving
e. of deeper relevence imbeded in the story

8. How old were you when you first read lotr?
16

9. Do you feel you appriciation and understanding of of lotr increases with time?
oh yes!