“It is regrettable that in conservative circles, that work is giving short shrift has some kind of liberal fantasy. “
Really? Who thinks that.
Another conservative value is recognizing what you’re fighting for. That scene at the end where they’re at the tavern, the four hobbits sitting there having been stripped of their innocence while others are celebrating a pumpkin. Those are the small moments of freedom that we take for granted.
PS - I’m a critic of those movies but only because as they moved further from the books, they changed the narrative for the worse.
I suspected they either never read it, or were forced to read it by a teacher, so I never gave that mindset much credence.
In any case, I by no means meant that to be a blanket statement, which these comments we see make obvious-I should have said (and probably meant to) "...in some conservative circles..."