[nopardons]

Not long ago ( a few weeks back ) I saw a biography on Tolkien. He, his now elderly children, and his life long friends talked about why he had written " THE HOBBIT " and ' THE LORD OF THE RINGS ". Not a single soul, especially the author, himself, claimed what you have, as to why he wrote them. The books aren't some allegory about the West beating back the barbarians, Communists, nor even some religious thing or other. It had NOTHING to do with Wagner ( though he did use some of the same themes )and was all about two things; the first of which was something to tell his children at bedtime.

JRT was a professor. He knew mythology inside out and felt that the English people had been robbed of their early myths and legends by the invading / conquering Normans and wanted to give the Brits back some sort of mythos. OTOH, Wagner took his material from the German Medeavil " DIE NIBELUNGENLIED " ( yes, I've read it ), which in turn, heavily relies on even earlier Tutonic myths and legends.

BTW, I LIKE Wagner's music, the Ring Cycle ( which I've seen many times ) and still like Beetovhen. Your overblown prose and extrapilations are your own opinion . Please don't try to make them out to be anyone else's. Oh, and the LOTR movies aren't THE cultural highlight, or whatever else you imagine, of the last decade.

[Enemy Of The State]

hey bud, try replying to the right person. I havent contributed any comments to this thread!