[silk] LOTR and Ayn Rand

[Ramakrishnan Sundaram]

Read this today:

There are two novels that can transform a bookish 14-year-kld’s life:
The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish daydream
that can lead to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood
in which large chunks of the day are spent inventing ways to make real
life more like a fantasy novel. The other is a book about orcs.