[300winmag]

Yes, I know- I enjoy them all very much- but I posted a similar reply in another thread and YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE the anger I got in reply! (it was just an attempt to tweak people for fun)

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.

[Vast Buffalo Wing Conspiracy]

Don't waste your time talking to this troll (unless you enjoy it!). See the previous Hobbit Hole thread; he keeps posting the same thing, then he pretends to be "shocked" and "surprised" when he gets a negative reaction. In reality, he is getting precisely the kind of reaction he wants, else he wouldn't keep doing it over and over.

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.