> 
> Even so, it was a reality of Tolkein's life and times. Chances are he
> wasn't able to imagine a world without class divisions. Even if he had
> been, he didn't set out to write science fiction, he set out to write
> myths and legends, of which class divisions were a substantial
> under-structure.
> 


Oh, I agree with you, and I've read/seen bunches of work done on it in the
Tolkien literary journals.  But I've also run into some people online who are
*rabid* if you ascribe anything to Tolkien's work (not even the man) that's
'negative' - class-, race-, sex-ism.  

darkelf, who thinks those things are interesting

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