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I agree with Dorothy, and with Bill Oram. I should also probably add that Michael C. Drout, a principal editor of the new journal Tolkien Studies, is a very fine Anglo-Saxonist with a book coming out from MRTS and an interest in Tolkien's work on Beowulf. His many enthusiastic students here at Wheaton are more enamoured of Beowulf and Grindal than they are of Frodo and Gollum, I think. Susanne At 10:12 AM -0600 2/18/04, Dorothy Stephens wrote: > Postscript: I didn't hear a patronizing tone in most of the >comments about >Tolkien, by the way. What I read was the same sort of affectionate humor >that we all direct toward Spenser upon occasion, ramped up by our awareness >of our own complex relationships with blockbuster filmdom, television, and >the morning gym. > >Dorothy Stephens -- ******************** Susanne Woods Provost and Professor of English Wheaton College Norton, MA 02766 508-286-8212 [log in to unmask]