> Bob, do i dare ask the reason(s) behind your dislike of tolkien? I've never read anything by him, or seen any of the movies, and I never will. This is pure prejudice.
Whimsical twee kitsch. Stupid made-up names. Complete absence of irony. Overblown self-regarding pomposity (describing his scribblings as 'legendarium', for feck's sake!). Guilt by association with so many of the dickheads who used to rave about the stuff and take it seriously - generally the sort of prat who danced along with Ian Anderson's crappy flute solos like pissed-up pixies with chillies on their 'roids. Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of S J > Sent: 16 August 2008 10:38 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: When is a little Photoshoppery too much Photoshoppery? > > On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > *although personally I would imprison all writers of > fantasy & science > > fiction, and if he were still alive I would have Tolkien cut into > > small pieces and fed to dwarves. > when > i first read him (in the mid 80s, much much before the movies) it was > kind of refreshing. but then it didn't take me long understand that > (to me) he was more or less a reactionary, right-of-centre (if not > exactly right wing) writer....and being that kind of astonishing that > he became an icon of the sixties (not that i was there in the sixties, > my ideas of the 60s are purely derived ones...) > > just curious on a lazy weekend... :-)) > > regards, subash -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
