Tolkien Vs. The Critics In 1954

meganthom writes "The BBC is running a story about how the critics viewed The Fellowship of the Ring, which is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its publication... One critic's view: 'To have created so enthralling an epic-romance, with its own mythology, with such diversity of scene and character, such imaginative largess in invention and description, and such supernatural meaning underlying the wealth of incident is a most remarkable feat.' One of the most insightful of all the comments at the time was provided by the Spectator's Mr. Hughes, who said, 'I think we should be well advised to remember that what we have before us now is the first volume of a larger work... and be willing to suspend judgement... until we have seen the whole... The pleasure to be derived from this first volume is a pleasure not to be missed.'"

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The Two Towers

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Anyone else see that internet petition about renaming the two towers for "sensitivity" purposes?? I cracked up when some guy said "It's obvious this guy named it that to get under our skin..." - but, as this article says, it was written in 1954 ya shmuck!