>The first two, Gondolin and Nargothrond were two great elvish cities >of Tolkien's Simarillion, the third, Moria was a ruined Dwarvish city >from LOTR. > >Some fundies actually do think that LOTR is on par with Harry Potter - >it has wizards and magic in it, THEREFORE IT IS EVIL. > I think the weirdest part of that is what a devout Christian Tolkien was (I just read a great biography about him.) And LOTR's supreme lesson, I always thought, was that relatively powerless people can overcome great evil. His works are a study in what evil can do to people -- for instance, the effects of the ring on Bilbo and Frodo over time and the taming of the Shire at the end of the Return of the King. He used fantasy and storytelling to convey his message, but it's there in everything he wrote. Tolkien was anything but a promoter of evil.
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