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To: Arcadian Empire

Yes it is a good point, considering what LOTR and Middle Earth is intended to represent. Tolkien was a person very steeped in English culture, but saw it fading due to industrialization and modernism. He was a professor of literature at Oxford, specializing in Norse mythology and English folklore, so his purpose was to create a unique English mythology by combining the two. He was very specific about it in his authorized biography, which I have read. But Amazon wants to basically cancel Tolkien and recreate him again as something multicultural, effectively destroying all his works. Well needless to say, they won’t be getting a wooden nickel from me.


61 posted on 08/20/2022 6:13:03 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Telepathic Intruder

There is a series of books called The Dark Is Rising.

It may be the most lyrical fantasy fiction ever written.

The movie that was allegedly an adaptation of it botched it in every respect, including botching the Welsh mythology that the books were entirely based on, and making it Home Alone In Wales which had absolutely nothing in common with the books.


64 posted on 08/20/2022 6:33:35 PM PDT by Arcadian Empire (The Baric-Daszak-Fauci spike protein, by itself, is deadly.)
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