Interesting--and yet annoying. First, I don't think Tolkein really was a romantic. Nor was Henry James a 'romantic' in the typical sense--unless the word is defined so broadly it covers almost everything. But I've decided not to blather about L of T R or any of the movies as I adore them and hate to overanalyze that which I adore (precisely the thing he is so worried about)...His is such a dull, dull way of reading literature...At the same time I enjoyed the hyperbolic connection between all these elements...as deeply wrong as it was in almost all its details.