Louis Epstein <le@top.put.com> wrote:
> At Wikipedia,a user known as "Chiswick Chap" has taken it upon
> itself to enforce that site's ludicrous rules on articles affecting
> Tolkien,claiming to have "scoured and renewed",with a link to their
> article on the chapter "The Scouring of the Shire",much of the
> Tolkien coverage.
>
> In the furtherance of their pathetic "Must Not be Invented Here Syndrome"
> (obsessed with publishing only things regurgitated from elsewhere rather
> than anything of independent value),he refuses to allow simple observations
> of obvious differences between the Bakshi film and the books,such as
> Legolas being the Elf the hobbits meet en route to Rivendell rather
> than Glorfindel,or Saruman being intermittently called "Aruman" and
> robed in red,in a section ostensibly listing differences between the
> book and film...immediately deleting an edit as "unsourced" (the film
> and book themselves are the best sources possible) and deleting a
> remonstration on his talk page as "abuse of his talk page".

Well, then, find a source. Here's one a 30-second search turned up:

https://www.tor.com/2020/01/31/ralph-bakshis-the-lord-of-the-rings-brought-tolkien-from-counterculture-to-the-mainstream/

--
Jeff