-----Original Message----- From: Heer, Jeet <JHeer at nationalpost.com>
>Right-wing thinkers and publishers, who introduced the Italian public to
the
>fantasy classic in the 1970s, see the 1,000-page tome by Britain's J.R.R.
>Tolkien as a celebration of their own values of physical strength,
>leadership and integrity.
IIRC, Tolkien was hardly a liberal democrat. I even seem to recall noises about fascist sympathies. He may have tree-hugging connotations today, but I'm pretty sure he had a lot more in common with Berlusconi than Ralph Nader.
Scott Martens