[Mudboy Slim]

"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 titled "Ooh, Those Awful Orcs."

From what I've read, Mr. Wilson was an IGNORANT RAT DOLT!!

FReegards...MUD

[ksen]

If you were to ask the "Man in the Street" who JRR Tolkien was they'd tell you he was the Lord of the Rings guy. Ask the same guy who Edmund Wilson was and you'd get "Edmund who?" ;^)