[2sheep]

>Perhaps you should read it before condemning it.

I don't have to visit a whorehouse, a drug house or a porn movie house to know they are evil.  The Bible says I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple [innocent] concerning evil.  It says to set nothing wicked before one's eyes and describes sorcery and enchantment in detail in Deut. 18 and condemns it.  Have you read the Bible?  If not, try it...and google:

 Google Search: "Lord of the rings" occult OR satanic - 11,300 hits

First site up above is a witchcraft link; try the second:

 Tolkien's Lord of the Rings: Truth, Myth or 'Discovered Reality"? -- Berit Kjos [C.S. Lewis discussed here]

 The Lord of the Rings: Paganism, Christianity or Syncretized.... -- Cutting Edge

[HairOfTheDog]

Oh - So its the number of Google hits that matter?

I can play the game!

Google Search: Christian "Lord of the Rings" - 90,100 hits.

I win!

[Liberal Classic]

I have and do read the Bible, thank you very much. I know the difference between that which is wickedness from what is a harmless children's story.

There is no sex in Lord of the Rings to speak of save a couple of political marriages, and the only drugs are alcohol and tobacco. There was magic in the Chronicles of Narnia also. Have you read Perelandra?

[stuartcr]

You can't use your own brain to determine if a movie is evil or not?

[Valin]

So I suppose you'd like to see all of the norse,Icelandic sagas, Beowulf, Greek/Roman myths, the tales of king arthur, etc.... never read or studied?
You DO understand that these are at the foundation of all western lit.?

Iconoclasts begone.