Ms Toynbee fantasises about them joining a militant one.

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Little did Toynbee suspect that as he was writing his premature obituary, a new generation was adopting the Lord of the Rings as its own.

BBC: Rings fellowship keeps on growing

However, the American critic Edmund Wilson famously dismissed the work as "juvenile balderdash", and Philip Toynbee wrote in 1961 that Tolkien's works had "passed into a merciful oblivion".

BBC: Rings fellowship keeps on growing

Polly Toynbee of the Guardian accused Charles Moore, editor of the Daily Telegraph, of wilful misinterpretation after he wrote a long attack on the report.

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