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My apologies for getting your point of origin wrong.

Somewhere along the line I got the distinct impression that you were French; no offense was intended and I sincerely mean that.

The fact that you live in Germany may explain, at least in some small part, your sensitivity to issues of anti-semitism; in any case, I respect that. I doubt that any culture, America's included, can ever shed the stigma of mistreating some ethnic group, race and/or minority during the course of it's growth and developement. Respecting and acknowledging history is indeed important, as I've pointed out before while quoting the famous words of Georges Santayana, but so is making a concerted effort NOT to overreact.

Which brings me to your opinions of LoTR. Personally, I think you may be overreacting a bit to Tolkien's works and Jackson's filmed versions, perhaps reading things into them that just aren't present. Tolkien himself stated as much in his own lifetime when armchair philosophers were trying to extract symbolism from the texts of his work. Tolkien stated emphatically that he was simply trying to tell a good story. So, reading things into his works, whether philosophically profound or diabolical, misrepresents the man's legacy, IMHO.

Peter Jackson, I believe, was merely trying to translate a complex and theoretically unfilmable literary work loved by generations of readers into a cinematic vision accessible to a generation which had never read Tolkien while not offending the loyal legion who had read them.

AuPh


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