Gonz wrote:
> On 8/16/08, Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>
> What are "chillies"? Are they chilis?
>
I thought he was referring to cubes, (ice that is).
>
>> 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
>>
>>
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