No ides whatsoever

It is obvious that you have no idea whatsoever of narrowness in scope if you consider an article on the use of magic in 'Lord of the Rings' as narrow — or is it possible you are condemning the article about a book which you have not even read? There is much written about Tolkien and his works, but little if anything written specifically on this topic, which happens to be, in my opinion, a very important and interesting issue in 'Lord of the Rings'. Having read that such an article exists, I am, despite your assumption that it is not likely to 'interest and stimulate enough readers', already sufficiently interested to want at least to see it. Also, judging by Marty's literary excursions previously published in Salient, I would not have thought it likely that his style would degenerate into 'stuffy and academic and uninteresting' and am inclined to believe that perhaps it is your personal bias against Tolkien that matters more than anything else in assessing the worth of the article.

Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells