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[-] Mzuark@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Tolkien was fucking huge on monarchies. Despite writing multiple parts in his stories where someone having absolute power was also potrayed as a bad thing, he never seemed to put 1 and 2 together.

[-] panic@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago

The original anarcho-monarchist

[-] juchebot88@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago

He actually said as much in a letter to his son: "the older I become, the more I find myself drawn to anarchism, that is, unconstitutional monarchy."

[-] DankZedong@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It wasn't problematic for Aryan-like white people to have a monarchy. Just the orcs, the dwarfs etc. who all happened to come from the barbaric east.

[-] Mzuark@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Remember how every Elf who did evil things was explicitly stated to be "dark" somehow? Whether it was hair, skin or just their "general look"?

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