re: #236 Belafon

The Tolkien books aren’t mythologies.

They are, by design, faux histories.

Thing is, all the creatures, and that includes elves and dwarves, are reworks by Tolkien to put his own ideological spins on them.

Werewolves, zombies - Tolkien threw in all sorts of things. Changelings, talking trees, etc. All these things are just fantasy.

That so many young people seem to not really be willing, or able, to see that their imagination of what they read is just that - theirs - and that other people may interpret things differently, is I guess par for the course of being young.

But when older people keep up that same attitude I have to wonder what other agendas are going on under the hood.