While we're on the subject

The stage adaptation of His Dark Materials is delayed because of technical problems. Luckily, my tickets are for the end of February, when it will hopefully all be worked out.

And on the subject of Tolkein, check out the reaction of Landover Baptist Church when they got to be amongst the first to see Return Of The King:

Three hours into the movie, after patiently waiting for a 300-foot Jesus to descend from the clouds and begin dismembering and Kung-Fu kicking the living hell out of unsaved people, the shocking truth that the devout audience had been hoodwinked into watching pagan, Christ-hating propaganda was finally revealed.