NP "racist" Tolkien?

[Dave Monroe]

Having too much fun now NOT to risk proving your
point.  Though a good hat'd cover that right up for
you ... no, sorry, got that one from one o' those
Tolkien sites, had to use it SOMEWHERE ...

--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> Well, with your 150-odd posts this month to my 45

Now who's "obsessive"?  The guy posting or the guy
actually COUNTING the posts?  Sheesh ...

> I'd say the odds are it's you who can't let a post
> of mine (or anybody else's) go by without a
> rejoinder of some sort. 

No, you'll note that I let the vast majority of go by
without comment.  Simply not motivated, is all ...

> You're less obsessive and rancourous with everyone
> else, of course, and it's my own fault for letting
> myself be drawn into your web of nastiness again

No, it's yr own fault for bickering with me simply for
the sake of it, is all.  Though of course you satrted
in on one of Doug's posts.  I'd fogotten that 'til I
traced this back ...

> but .... Seriously, it is beginning to sound as if
> you need to take a break.

Today?  So get up and get away ...?  Well, they could
use the business, but I've largely kicked the red meat
'n' grease habit, so ...

> I think I've made my points.

Now lie in them ...

> Michael Moorcock (!)

With a name like that, he oughtta be in showbiz ...

> notwithstanding, the case against _TLOTR_ as
> a "racist" text

Not my claim, of course ...

> relies on an interpretation of the text which
> doesn't match up with the actual substance of
> the text

Which I don't recall you claiming, much less
demonstrating, any real familiarity with, but ...

> the circumstances of Tolkien's biography or his
> stated attitudes towards racism.

And this of course was never in question ...

> And it's not "'about'" World War Two either.

It's not ALL about WWII, of course, any more than this
List is all about you, delsuions of grandeur aside,
not "about" in yr stronger senses of the word, but in
several senses of it nonetheless ...   

http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary?define=about

... again, I've no doubt the War after the War to End
all Wars left its traces in those texts.  Hold on
while I read through 'em all again, be right back ...


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