NP? "the formerly colonised coming back to haunt us"

[CyrusGeo at netscape.net]

thomas kyhn rovsing hjørnet<tkrh at worldonline.dk> wrote:

>Being Œa form of entertainment¹ does not imply innocence or absence of
>ideology.

By "a form of entertainment" I was referring to the "burning of witches". Sorry I wasn't clear enough. Now, as to the core of your argument, you are of course right (look at Disney, for example), but I don't see anything like that in Tolkien. We should always be very careful not to confuse fiction with reality. For many years, critics believed (some still do, apparently), that "the Lord of the Rings" was really about the World War and the general international political situation at the time. Tolkien has repeatedly denied that. Why not take his word for it? After all, the themes of his trilogy are universal and timeless, which is why (in my opinion) it had such a huge success in so many countries. It's not great literature, but it's quite catchy.

Cyrus

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