A poll on copyright/IP and recasting

[Bob the nice Frother]

[Marquis]

Miéville is alright, if a little overblown. I liked Perdido Street Station, except for the fact that he never knows when to stop bloody describing things.

I just think it was funny to cite the Socialist Review on ANYTHING, let alone literary value.
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[Rev Nice]

That address of that reviewer is :
1, Up His Own Arse
Pretentionville
Dogma

[Duff]

I think that is the most spot on review of LotR I've ever read.

Rev, your post is bollocks! The review was balanced and intelligent, giving credit where credit was due while all of the criticism was, IMO, totaly justified. Tolkein WAS a reactionary old fart. It's there for the world to see on every fucking page of the book.

The forces of evil in LotR are industrial powers, I got that the first time I read the book as a teenager fer christs sake.
I don't think LotR was intended as metaphor by Tolkein, he was famous for detesting it, but that doesn't mean that the book would not be full of his own political or social preferences.

Roy
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Gailbraithe wrote:

I actually do know better than the dictionary.

[Rev Nice]

NO! NO! NO! AND NO!

It's all commie bullshit.

I won't put up with left wing shite anymore than I will put up with right wing shite.
It's a review of LOTR for people who don't like LOTR and want to put the boot into an old professor for the sake of a bit of street cred.
I bet he's just really pissed off that when he tells the birds that he writes fantasy, they say 'What, like the Hobbit?'
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[caryn]

A little of this, a little of that. Certainly what Tolkien began with, as he convelesced from wounds suffered in the trenches of the Great War (not exactly an Nobles' role, there), was much less Catholic and much more paganistic. Certainly the product of the learned professor, the LoTR, was much more constrained, and far more uncomplicated, than what the young soldier began.

The review was in no way balanced---tossing out a few unintended consequences as being of benefit to the Proletariet is hardly "credit".

One may not like the way in which Professor Tolkien chose to write his novels---it is , to be sure, a High fantasy style. Certainly a soldier, who has lost friends and comrades in battle, longs to create a world in which all death is not in vain; that evil, greedy men who waste the lives of young men in battles of no consequence to them, or their families, should not have the power to do so. That is an escapism any soldier understands. If this offends the Comintern, too fucking bad. The Soviets discovered they, too, needed heroes---despite having railed against such "madness" and "exploitation of the workers and peasants".

Who wouldn't want to live in a world where one's friends died defending something meaningful, instead of Dick Cheny's bruised ego, or Ian Smith's intransigence? Where men and women who have great power are not always subverted by it? And Micheal Moorcock as a "great" writer and socialist? Since when?

Oh, and Duff....you're supposed to cough while the nice nurse is checking you for a hernia
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