Your Daily Tolkien Ping! Coming from many sources, these articles cover many aspects of Tolkien and his literary works. If anyone would like for me to ping them directly when I post articles such as this let me know. Enjoy!
Posted on 02/19/2003 4:30:37 AM PST by JameRetief
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Your Daily Tolkien Ping! Coming from many sources, these articles cover many aspects of Tolkien and his literary works. If anyone would like for me to ping them directly when I post articles such as this let me know. Enjoy!
"Harry Potter" is make-believe, and quite entertaining. "The Illiad" and "Lord of the Rings" are mythology, and also teach us while they entertain.
As a scholar, Tolkien lamented the destruction of whatever original mythology England might have had. So he decided to create one suitable for the country he loved so much. The books are only the tip of the iceberg, which includes a cosmology, history, and complete languages.
It's monumental effort over the course of his adult life, and a tribute to his scholarship and dedication. The story-behind-the-story holds valuable lessons for us, too.
I don't feel angry, or tweaked, and I didn't attribute any ill intent toward you.
I don't consider Tolkien to be sacred scripture, but I do consider it great literature. Even Shakespeare is "make believe", but it contains much of value. Heck, even some of the Saturday cartoons have value.
The thing that concerned me were all the hippies proclaiming Tolkien's books as religious text. They must have read the Cliff's Notes version while stoned.
If you want a real firestorm, make fun of women who read romances.
umm... you guys know this is all make-believe, right...?
And, so indeed, are you, for are not trolls purely mythical? Ergo, you are make-believe, and don't exist, either.
Maybe you are one of those philistines who thinks that Shakespeare is nothing more than ink on paper, that Mozart is just a bunch of musical notes, that a Stradivarius is merely wood and varnish, etc...
A troll, and a philistine, who thinks he is "funny", and who endlessly spams the Hobbit Holes threads with the same post.
There are two theories about trolls..."don't feed the troll" posits the idea that if you ignore them, they will go away; the opposite theory is that if exposed to sunlight, they will turn into stone...
Indeed, this is classic troll behavior, and the mental self-justifications, self-righteous moral preenings, and the "aw shucks, I were just joshing; you folks need to lighten up" attitude are all very troll-like, predictable, and boring. All trolls act like this, and they are always perfectly convinced of their own "sincerity".
Not that I care; I enjoy tweaking fools and trolls just as much, sometimes, as they enjoy bothering people who have no interest in their boorish and allegedly "humorous" opinions.
Mr. K., I've met trolls, and you are no troll...right? ;^)
Despite my reading all the Tolkien threads I can find, I haven't come across this particular person before. Maybe he's a troll, maybe he isn't. All I saw was an opionion that I thought needed some comment. I didn't want a lurker to come by, and see it unanswered. I've said just about all I can reasonably say on the matter, so I won't be posting any more here, except for this, as an explanation.
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Well, he has posted the exact same stupid comment on a couple other threads recently. He's like a child that thinks it is hilarious to recite the same joke over and over.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/841455/posts?page=5#5
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/845818/posts?page=3#3
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