And the author of this article is tying himself into a pretzel trying to absolve Tolkien of this great shame.

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      And, a good one. Thank you, this makes my point perfectly. I don’t support what he did*. But, I can appreciate his art. He wasn’t doing paint-by-numbers, he was actually good, at least technically. Maybe more of an illustrator than Artiste.

      *I can’t say “obviously” here, because there are far too many who still do. But, I’m certainly not one of them. Again, making my point.

      To expand on this a bit, if there were an art gallery showing of a large collection of Hitler’s works, I’d pay $20 to see it, mostly out of curiosity. Then, in this hypothetical scenario, I’d join the protest outside against Hitler.

      My son is an adult now, but if I had a young child who wanted to read Harry Potter for the first time, I’d buy them the books. I’d be thrilled they wanted to read such long books, and encourage them to do it. I would not deny them, and lecture them about what a piece of shit the author is.

      I don’t like Tom Cruise’s movies, except for Risky Business. If my kid wanted to watch Mission Impossible movies, I’d pirate the movies for them.