(urth) travelling north

[Jerry Friedman]

From: Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com>


>>And Tolkien would weep a silent tear to see his work called "allegorical."

>Hmph, then he shouldn't have had created all those bad guys as
>dark-skinned guys from south and east riding elephants.

Only the guys from the south ride elephants.  The humans from the east aren't described as dark-skinned, as I recall.  Maybe you're talking about the orcs, though.

>Nor should
>he have allowed "eagles" to save the day at the end of his two big
>(hobbit-involved) wars.                           

If people have suggested that the eagles represent the United States, that's just horrible.  I'm not going to dispute that the eagles might have led people into such interpretations, though.

Jerry Friedman