[ecurbh]

Ring Ping!!

[ksen]

Thanks ecurbh, you are the King of Ring Ping! ;^)

Have a Happy New Year's.

[Mudboy Slim]

"The Lord of the Rings has sold 50 million copies in numerous languages, influencing everything from Star Wars to Led Zeppelin and single-handedly spawning the genre of fantasy fiction in the process."

IMHO, the criticism Tolkien has received over the years says more about his detractors than it does about Tolkien's literary skills.

FReegards...MUD

[SkyPilot]

But that same year, Edmund Wilson, at the time America's pre-eminent man of letters, dismissed The Lord of the Rings as "balderdash" in a review for The Nation

Edmund Wilson was a Communist. Today, Tolkien and C.S. Lewis are literary legends, and Wilson...?

Check this out:

"Edmund Wilson, the son of a railroad lawyer, was born in Red Bank, New Jersey on 8th May, 1895. After attending Princeton University (1912-1916), Wilson was briefly a reporter for the New York Sun before serving in the United States Army during the First World War. After working in an army hospital he was transferred to the Intelligence Unit at General Headquarters in Chaumont.

"After the war Wilson became managing editor of Vanity Fair. Later he became associate editor of the The New Republic (1926-1931) and a book reviewer for the New Yorker. Deeply influenced by the ideas of Karl Marx...

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