"...if you really believe (as I do) that Lord of the Rings is a truly great work of art, that it deserves to stand the test of time, than the key to that is that different people from different times and places and cultures read it and see something of themselves in it. The fact that people born decades after Tolkien’s death can read his books and be deeply moved by them in ways that he couldn’t have imagined, or find them relevant to situations he never knew about, is proof of their greatness."
Lord of the Rings, Queerness, and the Nature of Great Art
Over the last month or so, there's been a bit of an ongoing meltdown over the contents of the Tolkien Society's annual Summer Seminar. Specifically, over the idea that the talks this year are too "woke", that they engage with questions of gay interpretations of Lord of the Rings and other suchlike aspects of Tolkien…
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