The title of the thread: Is The Lord Of The Rings Offensive to many fundamentalist Christians the same way Harry Potter seems to be?

I've loved the Lord Of The Rings for 40 years. For at least 25 or 30 of those years I've read the whole or selected parts of it each year. There are "dark lords" and "orcs" and "wizards" and magic galore in those books. This was way back before the so-called silent majority and long before fundamentalists and other minority groups learned that, like labor unions, there was power in the union of like-minded individuals who got together, stood their ground, and empowered themselves and their movement's tenets. Democracy was interprited to mean that, even if you only had one more than 50% of people on your side, you and your group got to take ALL the marbles home with you--and the gloves, bats and balls to boot. George Bush even got to take all those and more home with him EVEN THOUGH he he lost the American election. Now he is giving America away to his mega-rich supporters..

(Sorry, I've made my own thread creep even before starting the train.)

Art Thieme