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[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 9 points 1 week ago

I was recently reading that hard core right and Sociopathic Oligarchs all have a real weird thing for LotR. They give Tolkien names to lots of stuff. The article was very vague about why there is a connection ( I got the feeling that they really didn't know why it resonates with them), but it is there.

[-] thebookelf@literature.cafe 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It makes no sense because Tolkien wouldn't have agreed with most of them and would've despised how they use his legacy. I don't think these people understood the message the books were trying to send.

[-] 7toed@midwest.social 15 points 1 week ago

Nazis have always appropriated culture, since they lack the prerequisite humanity to make art of their own

[-] Niquarl@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

I remember reading that Tolkien wrote a letter or whatever lamenting that those kind of people liked his books.

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