  The globular clusters of the LMC are found to be significantly more
elliptical than Galactic globular clusters, but very similar in virtually all
other respects. The ellipticity of the LMC globular clusters is shown not be
correlated with the age or mass of those clusters. It is proposed that the
ellipticity differences are caused by the different strengths of the tidal
fields in the LMC and the Galaxy. The strong Galactic tidal field erases
initial velocity anisotropies and removes angular momentum from globular
clusters making them more spherical. The tidal field of the LMC is not strong
enough to perform these tasks and its globular clusters remain close to their
initial states.
