Tolkien on Authority

Hint: He wasn't a fan.

(Taking a little break from our series on Declaring Your Independence.)

Like many of you, my life has been enriched by the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. When I was a child, my father read to me every night, and several years of this wondrous ritual were occupied with the task of reading The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy. The experience changed my l…