Trust me, I have debated this point with him till I'm blue in the face. We have never been close, he never read and he doesn't trust me much. He didn't realize FOTR would scare his younger children and saw Nazgul as demons, wizardry and scorcery etc. He just needs to read the books in order to understand.... if he ever would.
=== He just needs to read the books in order to understand.... i
Or read them to his kids.
I think that's the thing I"ll miss the most about never having kids: reading stories to them. I loved that as a child. My Mom read to us quite a bit.
My Dad was more famous (or infamous) for scaring the bejeezus out of us as little Irish kids by reading stuff like "A Modest Proposal" at dinner. =)