Laurie Forbes
(LOL!) Well, now .... do I want everyone to think me a pommefrite? Pourquoi ? Middle-terre pas? Think about the creatures and their various portrayals. Who's "top dog," as it were, an Ent or an Elf?

Perhaps we can say, in our typically egalitarian way, that each rules in his own sphere.

is much the same with Disney, except there is more mixing and mingling and no segregated milieux. We are not supposed to see one animated character

a tall dog with alternative dentition, nor another as an oddly-shaped duck who shouldn't even be able to walk. It would be a misviewing of the

to say that mice should not command dogs, nor should a cow walk upright carrying a mem? purse and wearing too much lipstick, udder swaying seductively. Forget the particulars. These are beings who represent

"qualities" or characteristics of Life (tm). It's all allegorical, and

certain Tolkien would agree with me.