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   XPost: alt.fan.tolkien, rec.arts.books.tolkien   
   From: hayesmstw@hotmail.com   
      
   On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 18:19:29 -0800 (PST), hengels@swirve.com wrote:   
      
   >Tolkien knew both sides of life, but he chose to write only about one   
   >side. He knew the stern realities, the immorality, and the seamy,   
   >disgusting sidelights of life. But why write about them? Every one has   
   >his own trouble and heartache, so why not give the world something   
   >happy to read, and make them see visions of idealised life? Surely   
   >this does more good than sordid tales of sex filth that only lead to   
   >morbid and diseased thinking. What we need is clean, virile, genius-   
   >bearing blood, streamig down the ages through the unerring action of   
   >heredity.   
      
   I dunno.   
      
   The orcs seemed to represent the seamy side of life, and if Sauron et al had   
   their way, everyone in the whole world would have been like that.   
      
   That's the essence of the plot.   
      
      
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