David Brin On LOTR

hprotagonist0 writes "Salon has posted an article by sci-fi author, scientist, and essayist David Brin (The two Uplift trilogies, The Transparent Society) with his thoughts about LotR. A technophillic optimist, he warns against waxing too Romantic about feudal, good vs. evil fantasy. Instead, he says, we should look ahead to the future. Thought-provoking."

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Re:Why I never cared much for LOTR

[Oakey]

You didn't think of that off the top of your head. You ripped it from some site with "50 Reasons Why LOTR Sucked"

And it's not even meant to be taken seriously. It was a joke.

The level of stupidness on that site could only mean it's meant as a joke and not to be taken seriously.

One of the points is (or along the lines of this);

"We see the hobbits asleep in their beds and stabbed with swords by the wraiths (?) yet in the next scene they're all perfectly okay"

We all know they weren't even in the same building during that scene.