Tail end of an internet mob or a polite and sensitive commentary – you decided, in comments on this month’s most-read Scroll. And coverage of efforts to advance J.R.R. Tolkien’s sainthood attracted enough readers to break the logjam of Scrolls and propel that post into October’s Top 10.

The most read posts last month were:

1. Pixel Scroll 10/29/17 Please Remember To Scroll Your Pixels In The Form Of A Question
2. Pixel Scroll 10/25/17 Blue, Blue Pixels Behind The Stars, Yellow Scroll On The Rise
3. Pixel Scroll 10/17/17 If I Have Scrolled Further Than Others, It Is Because I Stood On The Pixels Of Filers
4. Pixel Scroll 10/23/17 A Long Scroll To A Small Angry Pixel
5. Pixel Scroll 10/24/17 Harry Pixel And The Undeserved Scroll
6. Pixel Scroll 10/21/17 Stars in My Pocket Like Scrolls of Pixels.
7. Pixel Scroll 10/1/17 And Lockjaw The Teleporting Bulldog (Played By A Bunch Of Pixels)
8. Tolkien: An Unexpected Sainthood
9. Pixel Scroll 10/16/17 Three Times Pixel Filer Dreamed Of The Marvellous Scroll
10. Pixel Scroll 10/27/17 Dark Scroll Crashes, Pouring Pixels Into Ashes

Scroll-Free Top 10

1. Tolkien: An Unexpected Sainthood
2. Steve Davidson Counters NBC’s Announcement of Amazing Stories TV Revival
3. Atwood Wins Peace Prize of the German Book Trade
4. Dian Crayne (1942-2017)
5. Is Discovery Unloved?
6. Barkley — So Glad You (Didn’t) Ask: A Column of Unsolicited Opinions — #17
7. 2017 Recommended SF/F List
8. Milt Stevens (1942-2017)
9. Amazing and NBC Kiss and Make Up
10. The Worst Movie Golden Bracket: The Finalizeling