From: le@top.put.com   
      
   snowfleck  wrote:   
   > On Sun, 3 Oct 2021 03:05:29 -0000 (UTC), Louis Epstein   
   >  wrote:   
   >> Disturbing to hear that the UK's longstanding Tolkien Society   
   >> has decided to embrace modernistic mentalities anathema to the   
   >> traditionalist ethos the reverent reader should imbibe from the   
   >> Arda canon.   
   >   
   > It might be an odd point to make on usenet but why shouldn't the   
   > tolkien society move with the times?   
      
   Because doing so is intrinsically indefensible.   
      
   > The old guard won't live forever   
      
   Let the Thrones of the Valar endure!!   
      
   > so reaching out to an alternative fan base is a necessity.   
      
   I am a strong believer in the tale told once,"set out fair and square   
   without contradictions",and want the narrative to bring those who   
   need to be cured of their tendencies to be "an alternative fan base"   
   into the fold of the permanently-sole fan base.If reading TLotR   
   doesn't mold you toward monarchism you're not getting what you should   
   out of it.   
      
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   at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.   
      
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