Tolkien article in the Telegrapgh

[wellinghall]

(Some of you might want to take your blood pressure pills before reading)
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100192299/send-these-horrid-hobbits-back-to-the-shire/

Comments

[gillo]

Nasty piece of writing. Presumably hostile Twitter followers are still better than being ignored.

Edmund Wilson said the whole thing better over 40 years ago. Even then it was sloppy, arrogant and judgemental writing.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Yes, "horrible hobbits" is a rip-off of "awful orcs"!