This is a response to the previous Salon article trashing Fellowship as compared to Star Wars.

This guy seems to get it right… and the article is a howl too! For instance:

Twenty years later, I find my mind has wandered back to Cloud City; same bridge, same pit. Again, I imagine myself as Luke, only now it’s George Lucas wearing the heavy-breathing Darth mask, standing over my head. And he’s reaching out to me, holding some crappy “Pod Racing” video game, contemptuously chanting: “Who’s your daddy? Who’s your daddy?”…And so, like Luke, I decide to let go. I leap into the pit — but not to my doom, because I know there is a vent down there. And that vent’s name is Peter Jackson — director of “The Lord of the Rings.”

But the article is more than that. It delves into the monomyth as talked about by Joseph Campbell (a mythologist and consultant on Star Wars) and how both Frodo and Luke are prototypical heros.

This article is a must read.