9/11 LESSONS FROM "LORD OF THE RINGS" AUTHOR: Tolkien, Hitler, and Nordic Heroism

FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | December 20, 2001 | J.P. Zmirak

[Liz]

Writing to his son, Tolkien opines: ......" I have in this War a burning
private grudge ......against that ruddy little ignoramus Adolf Hitler... "

[DManA]

What the!?!??!!? Nazis were pagans? I keep reading they were a Christian scurge.

[Liz]

One learns something new everyday.

[Alouette]

Good article. Thanks for sharing it. I've always been struck by the smiliarities between LOTR and the German epic Das Nibelungenlied which was the basis of the Wagnerian cycle of operas Der Ring des Nibelungen. I have always believed that Tolkien wrote LOTR to "ne-nazify" Wagner's "Ring."

Wagnerian hobbit:

[Liz]

On a different thread I posted: wait'll Hollyweird finds out Tolkien, who
wrote "Lord of The Rings," which won four Oscars, was a Catholic.

Seems there was a brouhaha over cut-throat Oscar campaigns with charges, countercharges and media
themes centering on Hollywood's Racism, homophobia, sexism, anti-Semitism, white-guy heterotocracy.

Thanks to HDawg's suggestionn that we read this FrontPage Magazine article
about Tolkien, a story inspired by Teutonic values of individualism and heroism.

Hollywarped may never recover.

[Liz]

...always believed that Tolkien wrote LOTR to "ne-nazify" Wagner's "Ring"....

....not implausible, knowing of his oft-spoken anti-Nazi sentiments....

[Liz]

Not C.S. Lewis but just as good.

[Liz]

Good article. Thanks for sharing it

As I said above, all thanks must extend to HDawg.

[HairOfTheDog]

Ring Ping to the One Ping King

[Valin]

Actually more of a warrior of Gondor.

[Faraday]

Very interesting article. Unfortunately, LOTR can't approach the cultural import, the moral depth of Monsters Ball. /sarcasm>

[Graewoulf]

Oscar time for the long boats!

[Brute_Force]

"Not C.S. Lewis but just as good."

A long talk with J.R.R.T., a devout Catholic, in Sept. of 1931 led Lewis to become a Christian. The Middle Earth books are regarded as Tolkien's masterwork but this one act of Christian witness to Lewis will have far more lasting consequences.

[Dialup Llama]

>Very interesting article. Unfortunately, LOTR can't approach the cultural import, the moral depth of Monsters Ball. /sarcasm>

I suspect one of these years LOTR will be up there collecting all the Oscars almost like Titanic. LOTR does have two more parts to it.

[Alouette]

Actually more of a warrior of Gondor.

OK, what would these Wagnerian babes correspond to in LOTR?

[Valin]

Talk about your babes!
I'm thinking shieldmaidens of the Rohirrim.

[KC_Conspirator]

What the!?!??!!? Nazis were pagans? I keep reading they were a Christian scurge.

Of course you have since the liberals comtinue to spread this lie in order to kill Christianity. Only a few historians or professors will acknowledge this and openly teach their classes this fact. The SS had bizarre rituals where they tried to commune with Nordic gods and ancient dead kings. You will hear Hitler and the Nazi's always refer to the Jews as a "race" and not a religion for two reasons: 1) Hitler's ideas on race and eugenics were the dominant motivators for his murderous actions, and 2) If you are a Christian you have to accept the Book of the Jews, the Old Testament, as part of the faith.

[Liz]

My post "Not C.S. Lewis but just as good" is an allusion to a series of
threads we've posted here on Lewis' master work, "The Screwtape Letters."

The threads were very popular and introduced many to the genius of Lewis
and to the designs of his diabolical characters Screwtape and Wormwood.

Proof-positive that Christian witness to Lewis has lasting consequences for the world.

[Liz]

.... can't approach the cultural import, the moral depth of Monsters Ball. /sarcasm>

Monsters Ball is arthouse......no, make that outhouse........fare......

[Alouette]

shieldmaidens of the Rohirrim.

Theme music reminds you of napalm in the morning, doesn't it?