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Salon creates a Tolkien topic page -- oboy! - Lord of the Rings news - J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings

December 24, 2000 at 21:24:19

Salon.Com bought out MP3Lit.Com earlier this year, thus scooping up MP3Lit's Tolkien recordings (which were Xenite.Org mentioned a few times) and suddenly the fan community has discovered Salon and Tolkien go hand in hand like Peanut Butter and Beets.

Not to be caught napping in the midst of a page-viewing bonanza which can only help their advertising revenues, Salon has now created a Tolkien topic which is a bit sparse but perhaps will eventually include every book review and retrospective that can manage to include J.R.R. Tolkien's name, no matter how glibly.

Anime fans will love the fact that a "Princess Monoke" article from October 1999 made the cut. The depth of the Tolkien reporting may not be there ("Frodo lives -- on the big screen" was simply awful) but at least we know the folks at Salon are cool: they like Tolkien (and Xena). So they can't be all bad.