To: grey_whiskers
Are Americans HobbitsNo, no, and no. Tolkien was addressing the Industrial Revolution and in some ways the walk of a Christian. Quit twisting a timeless piece of literature to justify US foreign policy
13 posted on
01/01/2007 1:10:04 PM PST by
billbears
(Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. --Santayana)
To: billbears
Indeed, Tolkien explicitly stated he loathed allegory in all of its forms--I was only pointing out that the "Americans are soft" crowd have it all wrong, and using Hobbits as an analogy people could relate to.
Cheers!
18 posted on
01/01/2007 3:03:35 PM PST by
grey_whiskers
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