From: le@top.put.com   
      
   At Wikipedia,a user known as "Chiswick Chap" has taken it upon   
   itself to enforce that site's ludicrous rules on articles affecting   
   Tolkien,claiming to have "scoured and renewed",with a link to their   
   article on the chapter "The Scouring of the Shire",much of the   
   Tolkien coverage.   
      
   In the furtherance of their pathetic "Must Not be Invented Here Syndrome"   
   (obsessed with publishing only things regurgitated from elsewhere rather   
   than anything of independent value),he refuses to allow simple observations   
   of obvious differences between the Bakshi film and the books,such as   
   Legolas being the Elf the hobbits meet en route to Rivendell rather   
   than Glorfindel,or Saruman being intermittently called "Aruman" and   
   robed in red,in a section ostensibly listing differences between the   
   book and film...immediately deleting an edit as "unsourced" (the film   
   and book themselves are the best sources possible) and deleting a   
   remonstration on his talk page as "abuse of his talk page".   
      
   Scouring of the Shire,indeed.   
   "If I hear 'Not Allowed' much oftener..."   
      
   Well,I'm now on a TEN YEAR ban from there,given my defiance of   
   other biases and policies...and Tolkien-specific wikis have been   
   intermittent on accepting my contributions...but I am considering   
   creating a proper fork for sane editing.   
      
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   at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.   
      
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