j.r.r. tolkein

i watched the fellowship of the ring this past weekend with my nieces, including many of the extras, in which i was reminded that tolkein "came to think of the internal combustion engine as the greatest evil ever put upon this Earth." he also didn't like fridges, adds bill hammack, a.k.a. engineerguy. he concludes: "In many ways the great theme of the Lord of the Rings is that no one should have dominion over the world. The Lord of the Rings is an anti-quest, with its goal to destroy universal power forever." had he read tolkein's The Silmarillion , which is the backstory to the creation of middle earth, perhaps he would have amended his statement to "no one creature should have dominion over the world" for there is only one universal power in tolkein's cosmology, eru illuvatar

i myself dislike the internal combustion engine as much as i like hobbits.