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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Olive" data-source="post: 1209958" data-attributes="member: 1297">This arguement isn't going to get us anywhere, especially as I don't believe that the one I put forward is any more correct than the one you're putting forward. Needless to say there is a reason historians use primary AND secondary sources.Sure, but it's still a glorification of war. And writing stories set during a war so that your characters have a noble reason to fight is still a glorification of war. In fact it's a particularly full on glorification. Thinking that just war is a good thing that should be glorified is pretty much exactly what Meilville's talking about. Again, this is difficult to discuss without talkibng politics.I don't neccesarily think that all the things that Meiville points out about Tolkein are actually bad things myself. I just think that Tolkein DOES do all the things (to a greater or lesser degree) that Meiville says he does. Like I said originally, I'm a Tolkein fan. I'm a DnD player for ghod's sake!</blockquote>