Re: Article in the "Village Voice" about the Tolkien Movies
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, June 9, 2001, 15:05 |
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At 12:00 2001-06-07 -0700, J Matthew Pearson wrote:
>I was also a bit offended at the author's patronising tone, and I think his
>sociology is a tad oversimplified: Not everybody who likes Tolkien is a
>role-playing SF/fantasy-reading Trekkie computer programmer. Tolkien is
>one of my
>favourite writers, but I'm generally completely indifferent to most of the
>rest of
>fantasy literature (Ursula le Guin's "Earthsea" books and Susan Cooper's
>"The Dark
>is Rising" being notable exceptions), and even most of science
>fiction. And--with
>all due respect to other members of this list--I detest role-playing games,
>especially those of the Dungeons & Dragons variety.
Good to hear that I'm not as atypical as I thought, tho of course my
exceptions to the rule are not the same as yours! :-)
/BP 8^)>
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