The classic attack on Tolkien remains Michael Moorcocks essay
Epic Pooh, though
quotable quote
> The Lord of the Rings is much more deep-rooted in its infantilism
>than a good many of the more obviously juvenile books it influenced.
>It is Winnie-the-Pooh posing as an epic. If the Shire is a suburban
>garden, Sauron and his henchmen are that old bourgeois bugaboo, the
>Mob - mindless football supporters throwing their beer-bottles over
>the fence
Cheers David
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