LOTR Survivor

[The Saucepan Man]

Originally Posted by Ang

But if you make up a case from scratch and carefully selected, dubious evidence, from threads and patches, from politicised conjecture tailored to suit your cause, and parade and trumpet it as the truth...

That's called distortion!

No. It's just another way of looking at things. And how much more fun it is than simply accepting the spoon-fed "traditional" view.

How interesting would this thread be if everyone just toed the line, unanimously voted off all the baddies and mutually enthused about how wonderful people like Sam, Aragorn, Faramir and Eomer were ...?