Yeah.. seems to have become fashionable of late,
to add JRR to the deconstruction list. Razing edifices is ever so much easier than erecting; and the timed explosives give us a new form of explotainment too :-)
Maybe it's the EngLit equivalent of DieHard XXII, or the attempt to remake Sabrina - without an Audrey Hepburn, a Bogie or a William Holden (!) all for the relative absence of much resembling Original talent, amidst today's noises.
Above all.. JRR was a Master story teller! Should he have had to also invent a completely Original mythology with names never heard before? ('Course he sorta Did do some of that, though our friend the Gollum can conjure ideas of a Golem? Yesssss indeed.)
OTOH for those lookin fer egalitarian philosophies executed flawlessly.. well, wouldn't that just be (a rather more entertaining presentation of) Agit-Prop? and soon devolve to preaching: to unrecalcitrant humanity..which Likes behavin like assholes and rationalizin that behavior - Often (?)
And yes - reading JRR at different stages in your life - Is a different appreciation (or not, as the case may be). Hmmm might be time for me to haul out the Rings again.. My Precioussssss.
Ashton the Unbiased
