It was a newsgroup in my case - might have been r.a.b.t. I might have just shown up at a bad time though.
I was a bit of a chapter and verse nut myself, although there were much worse than me about: one infamous poster at the time was obsessed with the idea that all Balrogs had actual, physical, wings and refused even to countenance the idea that Tolkien could have been at all skilled at the art of metaphor. This Tolkien bloke was only a university professor and fairly much a professional word nerd, after all...
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Date: 2008-01-05 04:59 am (UTC)I was a bit of a chapter and verse nut myself, although there were much worse than me about: one infamous poster at the time was obsessed with the idea that all Balrogs had actual, physical, wings and refused even to countenance the idea that Tolkien could have been at all skilled at the art of metaphor. This Tolkien bloke was only a university professor and fairly much a professional word nerd, after all...