[Paul Atreides]

First of all, the author of this article would do well to realize that Tolkien did not write LOTR as a "fairy tale," but as a mythology for England.

[Snuffington]

First of all, the author of this article would do well to realize that Tolkien did not write LOTR as a "fairy tale," but as a mythology for England.

For a modern press writer to find value in a "fairy tale" is surprising enough. Expecting one to recognize the difference between fairy tale and myth, and find value in both, is pushing it. Tolkein had trouble himself in this within his own department of philology at Oxford.