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   Message 70,104 of 70,346   
   Jeff Urs to Louis Epstein   
   Re: Tolkien Censorship at Wikipedia   
   07 Feb 22 03:04:00   
   
   XPost: rec.arts.books.tolkien   
   From: jeff.urs@gmail.com   
      
   Louis Epstein  wrote:   
   > 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".   
      
   Well, then, find a source. Here's one a 30-second search turned up:   
      
   https://www.tor.com/2020/01/31/ralph-bakshis-the-lord-of-the-rin   
   s-brought-tolkien-from-counterculture-to-the-mainstream/   
      
   --   
   Jeff   
      
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