Oh No, Not Another Fucking Elf

Amid this unharmonious convergence of forces clambering for some acreage of the Tolkien empire, there is also a literary reputation at stake. Can the words of Tolkien, the serious author, be heard above the din of Middle-earth's ravenous strip development?

So wring the hands of Ethan Gilsdorf, in the Boston Globe Magazine, reporting to you from an alternate universe where Tolkien's literary reputation is really all about the purity of the franchise and the public's well known enthusiasm for invented Saxon dialects, and not about the masses of geeks who like dwarves and swords.