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<blockquote data-quote="WayOfTheFourElements" data-source="post: 7727183" data-attributes="member: 6904757">No matter what he intended? Intention absolutely matters. Calling someone's work problematic for some reason that he/she did not intend is significantly more problematic than your so-called offence over the roots of western symbolism, dualism. What you're arguing against isn't Tolkien or LotR, but the Western literary tradition of reoccurring symbolism and allegory.Personally, I think Dante and Tolkien and hundred of other writers and great think calling evil out as vile and abhorrent rather than seductive and tempting is much more useful and interesting than them worrying about a standard political correctness that did not exist in their era. Expecting them to be racially sensitive is equally ridiculous as it is to expect African mythology to be filled with Anglo-Saxon and East Asia heroes, then after finding out it is not, to call African mythology racially insensitive. It's idiotic on both accounts.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="WayOfTheFourElements, post: 7727183, member: 6904757"] No matter what he intended? Intention absolutely matters. Calling someone's work problematic for some reason that he/she did not intend is significantly more problematic than your so-called offence over the roots of western symbolism, dualism. What you're arguing against isn't Tolkien or LotR, but the Western literary tradition of reoccurring symbolism and allegory. Personally, I think Dante and Tolkien and hundred of other writers and great think calling evil out as vile and abhorrent rather than seductive and tempting is much more useful and interesting than them worrying about a standard political correctness that did not exist in their era. Expecting them to be racially sensitive is equally ridiculous as it is to expect African mythology to be filled with Anglo-Saxon and East Asia heroes, then after finding out it is not, to call African mythology racially insensitive. It's idiotic on both accounts. [/QUOTE]

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