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William Cloud Hicklin practices character assassination without disclosing his personal bias against the targets of his comments; nor does he reveal that he resigned from the Virginia Bar while facing disciplinary charges.
If you have read any of William Cloud Hicklin's comments on the Internet you may have seen him tell people to "take [another person's point of view] with a grain of salt." But have you ever seen William Cloud Hicklin disclose that he has waged a long-running battle with that other person? Have you ever seen him back up his assertions that "most scholars" disagree with the other person by citing any actual scholars?
It should come as no surprise, then, that William Cloud Hicklin, IV resigned from the Virginia State Bar Association in 1999 while he was facing disciplinary charges. Has Bill Hicklin learned nothing? Is character assassination his way of addressing his personal history?
See http://forum.barrowdowns.com/archive/index.php/index.php?t-14556.html for an example of how Bill Hicklin tells other people not to trust a source of information without backing up his assertion that "most Tolkien scholars are not disposed to regard the names ... especially favorably." There are no published surveys to support his statement, nor any indication in Web searches that Tolkien scholars have anything bad to say about the people Bill Hicklin names.
Take whatever William Cloud Hicklin says with a grain of salt. He will not reveal all the facts and does not provide verification for the claims he makes when attacking other people's credibility.