Nothing says IDIOT like an Unearned Political Pulpit.
I tick off SO MANY people by saying that! There are some on a non-Freeper LOTR forum who ignore me now because i have that as a tag line...they were such good friends before!!
I dont care if an actor wants to support the other side. They just need to understand the consequences. JRD KNOWS there are people who will hate him for speaking up, and he is quite willing to face those consequences. Mortenson, however, wants to have his cake and eat it too by mouthing off the Marxist/Stalinist tripe he supports in ANSWER, but then gets all fluttered when he becomes aware that it doesnt make him quite as popular as he had hoped. On top of that JRD is EXTREMELY intelligent and learned, whereas Mortenson has flopped around this planet by exerting no more than his hormones will allow. He didnt get where he is now because of his political position. He got there because people thought he was a good actor. I was solidly convinced BY HIM in FOTR tat Aragorn was a neat character...but then he had to open his trap and spoil the picture. He should have at least waited until all three movies were out. But there again, hormones speaking.
Mr. Rhys-Davies is SO correct in his statements about Western Civilization. I think Tolkien would agree with him the most out of all the punditry that has come about because of these films.