David Brin wrote an interesting piece on this a few years back. I think Salon picked it up then, too. http://dir.salon.com/ent/feature/2002/12/17/tolkien_brin/i

David Brin wrote an interesting piece on this a few years back. I think Salon picked it up then, too. http://dir.salon.com/ent/feature/2002/12/17/tolkien_brin/index.html http://dir.salon.com/ent/feature/2002/12/17/tolkien_brin/ind...