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It is unfortunate FR hosts such garbage as this.

[agere_contra]

It is unfortunate FR hosts such garbage as this.

Agreed. Leave any time you like.

[Flick Lives]

It is unfortunate FR hosts such garbage as this.

In before the Orcs... Oops. I guess not.

[Alas Babylon!]

Dang! Who peed in your cornflakes this morning?

[don-o]

Hostile commentators sensed something they simply did not like in The Lord of the Rings (3 vols., 1954-5) and Tolkien’s other works: something that appealed to tradition, rightful authority and the high role of virtue as an element of lawful authority, as well as the goodness of earthy lives lived close to the soil, in close community and on ancestral holdings. It is a tale in which the corruptive nature of unlimited power is illustrated, in which ethical distinctions are made, and in which humble people take up arms to defend their land. To the liberal imagination, this is all reprehensible; and such writers as Edmund Wilson, John Le Carre, and Germaine Greer smelled the transcendent element in Tolkien’s works the way a dog smells death—and with the same response. Only they called it not the the transcendent, but craven escape and fascism—apparently believing that the taking down of weapons from the wall to defend one’s home and land is the first step on the road to becoming a goose-stepping worshipper of the total state.

[CAluvdubya]

It is unfortunate FR hosts such garbage as this.

I'll never understand the posters that think FR articles should be geared for their own personal likes and dislikes........

Did it ever occur to you to just pass the article on by if you don't want to read it?

[The_Victor]

It is unfortunate FR hosts such garbage as this.

Everyone here is free to pick and choose what we read, and what we ignore.

[Hegewisch Dupa]

clown. Grow the hell up