Re: Article in the "Village Voice" about the Tolkien Movies

En réponse à Adam Walker <dreamertwo@...>:

> Hmm.  As some one who studied and wrote a paper on LoTR in gradschool,
> I
> find his rather off-handed dismissals rather more indicative of his
> own
> mental development that that of Tolkien's fans.  I think the main
> problem is
> that Tolkien is hard for the great masses to understand because it
> deals
> with the truely elemental parts of life.  Therefore it is only the
> "children" and the truely wise who can really grasp what he is saying.
> Those who fall in between fail to get the point.  I'm probably one of
> the
> "children" but sometimes it is hard to tell the difference between a
> child
> and a wise one.  They have more in common with each other than either
> has
> with the middle.
>
> Adam
>
Amen. If only the ones in the middle could at least understand that... (note
that I consider myself part of the "children", though I'm usely wiser than most
of the people I know...)

Christophe.

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