Sunday, March 26, 2006

Rings in the ring ...

A difference of opinion over the value of The Lord of the Rings: Now we're Tolkien. ( Tolkien's name, I notice, is misspelt in the headline.)

2 comments:

  1. I read this one in the actual "paper". I am on the pro side, of course, but even so I thought the second (pro) article of a completely different class to the first, which was risible. (Sorry to be rude -- but it was one of those "slagging off" pieces of journalism where you felt the writer had not even bothered to read the book).

    I wondered at the time why the Times chose to run that piece at this time. I guess it was becuase of the new musical, just opened in Canada. Seemed a bit of a space-filler to me, as we have all been there, done that, got the T shirt with pro- and anti- LOTR over the past few years as the movies and DVDs have been released and journalists scrabble around for copy. No new arguments here, is my take.

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  2. Right on both counts, Maxine: Nothing new here, though the pro piece at least had substance. The con piece was simply splenetic.

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