Very interesting reading a review that has to make the case that Tolkien should be taken seriously. And of course, he's quite right: not just that Tolkien shoul

Very interesting reading a review that has to make the case that Tolkien should be taken seriously. And of course, he's quite right: not just that Tolkien should be taken seriously, but that (like Hopkins and others) he should be taken seriously (at least in part) because of the aesthetic theories implicit in everything he wrote.