This article says Chris Tolkien hasn't spoken to the press in about 40 years. Consider what the hacker community was like forty years ago, and the meaning that

This article says Chris Tolkien hasn't spoken to the press in about 40 years. Consider what the hacker community was like forty years ago, and the meaning that LOTR had to this community forty years ago compared to now. I could be wrong, but maybe that could be what Chris Tolkien means by "eviscerated."