Why the Lord Of The Rings should be banned as hate literature. [modified]

[Lost User]

http://www.rediff.com/news/2003/jan/08lord.htm[^] -- modified at 21:38 Thursday 14th December, 2006

[Ryan Binns]

What a load of rubbish :mad:

Ryan

"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"

[MatrixCoder]

I hate it when people try to ruin a good thing.

[Guffa]

Re-iterated by someone who doesn't even know how to close a quote...

--- It's amazing to see how much work some people will go through just to avoid a little bit of work.

[Lost User]

MatrixCoder wrote:

I hate it when people try to ruin a good thing.

You think hate literature is a good thing? :wtf:

[Steve Echols]

Of course, if you look hard enough at many great epics, you can extrapolate what you like, particularly if you have academic kudos behind you. Or even if you don't have kudos, apparently.

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- S 50 cups of coffee and you know it's on!

[Paul Conrad]

What a totally stupid article. It is just a fucking movie...

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If you try to write that in English, I might be able to understand more than a fraction of it. - Guffa

[Steve Echols]

Yeah, when I read the books, I didn't see anything racial at all, more spec-ial. Of course, I was only 12 when I read them...

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- S 50 cups of coffee and you know it's on!

[Paul Conrad]

Steve Echols wrote:

didn't see anything racial at all

I tend not to look for bullshit things like that in movies...

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If you try to write that in English, I might be able to understand more than a fraction of it. - Guffa

[hairy_hats]

I reckon that there are more white people looking for things to take offense at, than there are black people who actually do take offense. This analysis of LotR is utter bollocks.

[ednrgc]

People that can't distinguish between Fiction/Fantasy and reality should be banned.

[ednrgc]

If you're offended by Fantasy movies/novels, you need to get a life.

[Matt Gerrans]

Yup. The one thing Tolkien tried to get into the heads of all the idiot "analysts" was that the Lord of the Rings was not an allegory for anything. I think it even says that in the preface.

Matt Gerrans