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[Tim Strzechowski]

Can't speak for why others put it on their list, but for me the novel is a
wonderful "retelling" of every possible myth that has come down the pike up
to this time, from Genesis to the Arthur legends to western epic poetry and
eastern philosophy.

With Tolkien it's not the destination that matters, it's the journey itself.

Om . . .


(For what it's worth, though, I abhor The Hobbit.)


> I'm not carping or attempting to flame here, just asking a sincere
question.
>
> I've seen LORD OF THE RINGS on a couple of lists now, and I'm wondering
how
> folks on the list approach this work.  I've been reading the books (first
> THE HOBBIT, then LOTR -- now on the last book) aloud to my ten year-old
son
> for the better part of a year (in small, bedtime increments), and I just
> want to kill myself just about every night -- with the endless allusions
to
> other parts of the history of Middle Earth, long numbing asides exploring
> characters we'll never see again, etc.
>
> Surely it's all an elaborate and brilliant metaphor for World War One or
> something, right?
>
> How can I look at this differently to improve the coming months I will be
> spending, between 9:30 and 10:00 PM Eastern, in places like "Minus
Morgel"?
>
> He'p me!
>
> Will "The Tolkien Wary" Layman
>