{"id":8578,"date":"2003-02-18T18:18:44","date_gmt":"2003-02-18T23:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/02\/18\/i-think-this-professor-knows-more-about-toking-then-tolkien\/"},"modified":"2003-02-18T18:18:44","modified_gmt":"2003-02-18T23:18:44","slug":"i-think-this-professor-knows-more-about-toking-then-tolkien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/02\/i-think-this-professor-knows-more-about-toking-then-tolkien\/","title":{"rendered":"I think this professor knows more about toking then Tolkien"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#3333FF\">A leading German literature professor says that reading<br \/>\nTolkein&#8217;s Lord of the Rings could help prevent war. <\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#3333FF\">Thomas Kullmann, a 42-year-old professor from the<br \/>\nUniversity of Osnabrueck, said: &quot;If adults read children&#8217;s literature more<br \/>\noften then we would probably live in a much more peaceful world.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\">Exactly what fairy tales has this guy been reading. In<br \/>\nmost that I can recall the witch\/wizard\/dragon\/etc. gets killed by the hero.<br \/>\nIf you ever read the old fairy tales and not the disneyfied version they are<br \/>\npretty violent. If the modern peaceniks were in these stories we would have<br \/>\nthings like:<\/font><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><font color=\"#000000\">Hey, Hey , Ho, Ho Prince Charming has got to go.<\/font><\/li>\n<li>Prince Charming is only trying to make his oil buddy rich.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t attack Hook, Never Neverland will become another Vietnam<\/li>\n<li>Little Red Riding is a hood, the wolf is not big and bad but misunderstood.<\/li>\n<li>Boycott glass slippers made in sweat shops<\/li>\n<li>Stop the exploitation of little people by Snow White<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><font color=\"#3333FF\">&quot;Fairy tales and other works for children may<br \/>\nnot be one-to-one with reality but they help excite the imagination. They give<br \/>\nthe reader new ideas that could even help solve political problems.<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><font color=\"#3333FF\">&quot;Children&#8217;s books can definitely help adults<br \/>\nrethink a situation and help them assess political situations on a higher and<br \/>\neven wiser level.&quot;<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><font color=\"#3333FF\">He added: &quot;Tolkien&#8217;s Lord of the Rings is a good<br \/>\nexample of a children&#8217;s book that could help.<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\">LOTR is not a children&#8217;s book, it is a book that can<br \/>\nbe read by children.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><b><font color=\"#3333FF\">&quot;It shows, in a spectacular way, how destroying<br \/>\nan object can prevent world domination from one person or side.&quot;<\/font><\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\">I must be totally dense today since I don&#8217;t understand<br \/>\nthis line at all. I seem to recall that there was a war in LOTR and that Frodo<br \/>\nand others had to kill people\/creatures in order to get to the point where the<br \/>\nring could be destroyed. They didn&#8217;t send diplomats to Saruman or impose<br \/>\nsanctions. I think the opposite lesson could be learned from LOTR, that there<br \/>\nis good and evil and that evil must be defeated. Now how the evil in Iraq is<br \/>\nto be defeated is open to question, but it will not be by everyone reading LOTR,<br \/>\nunless of course they are all really slow readers and by the time they finish<br \/>\nthe trilogy Saddam Hussien has died of old age. With the state of public education<br \/>\nmaybe that scenario is not totally far fetched.<br \/>\n<\/font>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ananova.com\/news\/story\/sm_751922.html?menu=news.quirkies\">Full<br \/>\nStory<\/a>] <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#FF3333\">Update<\/font>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bettnet.dyndns.org\/blog\/comments.php?id=P641_0_1_0\">Domenico<br \/>\nBettinelli<\/a> offers a post on &quot;Peace in Middle Earth in our time&quot; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A leading German literature professor says that reading Tolkein&#8217;s Lord of the Rings could help prevent war. Thomas Kullmann, a 42-year-old professor from the University of Osnabrueck, said: &quot;If adults&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}