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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Well. lots of people listen to Benjamin Britten's music and he was a REAL perv. We don't believe Tolkien was a paedo, anyway.
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Britten was the patron of my school choir  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Not the author himself, but his son and the family have spent thousands trying to cover it up! "
An interesting story but I would guess if there was solid matter the filth would have clamped him in irons.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Would you still want to take your kids to see a film if you knew the writer's family were still in denial that a family member was a prolific paedophile? "
Yes.
For a few reasons :
- the film, whilst based on the writers works, has its own merits as a production
- the film is a 12A so we are not talking juniors here, we are talking high school age
- by that age, children should understand to not believe everything they are told or to rely on one source of information to make their decisions
and after all, it's not likely that the writer or any member of his family is gonna pop by for a crafty fondle whilst you are tucking into your nachos |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I agree the paedo shouldn't be allowed to have his actions covered up, but Tolkien, the writer of the hobbit and lotr wasn't himself a paedo.
It's a personal decision to boycott the film, but I would see it. |
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"Would you still want to take your kids to see a film if you knew the writer's family were still in denial that a family member was a prolific paedophile? "
Well I wasn't aware of that but it wouldn't stop me going to see the film or reread the book, just like many people still listen too and buy music by people like Michael Jackson, who at the very least was very dubious |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Would you still want to take your kids to see a film if you knew the writer's family were still in denial that a family member was a prolific paedophile? "
Alleged - the missing word is 'Alleged' because he was NOT convicted of being such as far as I recall. |
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By *efree OP Man
over a year ago
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Alleged? Tolkien's son was arrested, but not convicted because the prosecution was not pursued due to his ill health.
The Catholic Church paid out £15000 to Christopher Carrie for failing in their duty of care.
Fr Tolkien is believed to have been the most prolific paedophile within the Catholic Church. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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You know, it worries me it really does.
It seems that the latest fashion is to posthumously 'convict by vox-populi' - no actual criminal charges can be brought posthumously and the accused can never have their day in court to deny the claims.
Yet as the current trend is showing, the finger is pointed, the words are said and immediately it must be true, for the accused cannot answer the allegations. It doesn't matter if the accusers have an axe to gind, a grudge to bear or a wallet to fill - Be you a saint or the common man, you are simply 'guilty in absentia'.
Its wrong. Its McCarthy-esq 'Witch-Hunt' type wrong and its not going to stop because the genie is out of the bottle. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Alleged? Tolkien's son was arrested, but not convicted because the prosecution was not pursued due to his ill health.
The Catholic Church paid out £15000 to Christopher Carrie for failing in their duty of care.
Fr Tolkien is believed to have been the most prolific paedophile within the Catholic Church. "
Believed to be?? Alleged to be?
Not convicted in a court of law by a jury of his peers.
So, its alleged. Plain and simple. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Alleged? Tolkien's son was arrested, but not convicted because the prosecution was not pursued due to his ill health.
The Catholic Church paid out £15000 to Christopher Carrie for failing in their duty of care.
Fr Tolkien is believed to have been the most prolific paedophile within the Catholic Church.
Believed to be?? Alleged to be?
Not convicted in a court of law by a jury of his peers.
So, its alleged. Plain and simple. "
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Alleged? Tolkien's son was arrested, but not convicted because the prosecution was not pursued due to his ill health.
The Catholic Church paid out £15000 to Christopher Carrie for failing in their duty of care.
Fr Tolkien is believed to have been the most prolific paedophile within the Catholic Church. "
even murderes etc etc can be creative people..it would be different if in their 'art' they were promoting their crimes.I believe people can still buy Garry glitter music.There could be hidden messages in the art..but thet could be entirely subjective to who is looking at the work. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I absolutely hate it when people come up with statements, their when in ti a public arena and then state what they ar e saying it's the undeniable truth without any facts or substantiation 
If you have any evidence to the contrary then bring it forward, or take it to the relevant authorities ...
This forum is not a lynch mob.
There should be due process, and I'm sure that if new evidence were ti be presented then the authorities would investigate it |
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"I absolutely hate it when people come up with statements, their when in ti a public arena and then state what they ar e saying it's the undeniable truth without any facts or substantiation
If you have any evidence to the contrary then bring it forward, or take it to the relevant authorities ...
This forum is not a lynch mob.
There should be due process, and I'm sure that if new evidence were ti be presented then the authorities would investigate it "
you have yr bum out...just sayin... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Take me to court! "
I would like to see that. The more people that are convicted of defamation of character whilst hiding behind a keyboard may make people think before the type |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Take me to court!
I would like to see that. The more people that are convicted of defamation of character whilst hiding behind a keyboard may make people think before the type"
Says Fabs own Dexter  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Take me to court!
I would like to see that. The more people that are convicted of defamation of character whilst hiding behind a keyboard may make people think before the type
Says Fabs own Dexter "
Homicide and slander are very different crimes.... |
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"Take me to court!
I would like to see that. The more people that are convicted of defamation of character whilst hiding behind a keyboard may make people think before the type
Says Fabs own Dexter
Homicide and slander are very different crimes...."
Try libel - the written word. Slander is the spoken word.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Ok no problem let me say again Father JRR Tolkien (that's a Catholic priest) was a child molesting piece of crap, can I make it any clearer?
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so why would that affect whether i read his dad's book?
If your kids were paedos, would that mesn your life's work is suddenly null and void?
Stupid hysteria. Stop reading the daily mail
Even if JRR was a paedo, it's still a cracking book |
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"Ok no problem let me say again Father JRR Tolkien (that's a Catholic priest) was a child molesting piece of crap, can I make it any clearer?
so why would that affect whether i read his dad's book?
If your kids were paedos, would that mesn your life's work is suddenly null and void?
Stupid hysteria. Stop reading the daily mail
Even if JRR was a paedo, it's still a cracking book"
I'm off to watch it tonite |
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"Would you still want to take your kids to see a film if you knew the writer's family were still in denial that a family member was a prolific paedophile?
Well I wasn't aware of that but it wouldn't stop me going to see the film or reread the book, just like many people still listen too and buy music by
people like Michael Jackson, who at
the very least was very dubious"
Same here. I'm gonna go and see it. I never sing Gary Glitter songs anymore though and deleted them from my iPod a couple of years ago. |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
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Do you boycott Woody Allen films? Do you start a protest if a Michael Jackson album is released?
JRR Tolkein did not make the films. He's dead. How does boycotting a Peter Jackson film bring awareness to paedophillia in the Catholic Church except by making such a distant connection as to trivialise something so shameful and painful to many?
OP - you have shouted your point. I can see that you are angry. Please for the sake of such a serious issue use that energy to fight the real cause and not a film that most people won't even realise is based on a book. |
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"Hang on a minute, I thought you said it was christopher tolkien ...
Confused.com  "
I don't think he knows one Tolkien from another.....the rants of the Paedo Outers often end up in confusion, which is a major reason for them being sued for their rants. |
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By *entilusMan
over a year ago
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On a point of information: The not proved allegation was made against Father John Francis Reuel Tolkien 1917-2003 NOT his author father JRR [John Ronald Reuel] Tolkien 1892-1973, NOR JRR's youngest son and literary executor Christopher Tolkien who produced the Silmarillion.
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