Lord of the Rings Fans Disillusioned: Aragorn is Anti-American Peacenik Retard!

http://www.theonering.net/perl/newsview/8/1039034342 ^

[Burr5]

It would appear, based on this account of Viggo Mortensen's appearance on Charlie Rose last night, that this nascent superstar (based on his wonderful acting in the Lord of the Rings films) is actually just another America-hating imbecile- a man who plays a hero, yet fails to see the heroism of U.S. fighting men, or the justice of their cause. BTW, I didn't see the show, as I don't get Charlie Rose, but I saw a photo of Viggo in the "No More Blood For Oil" T-shirt. What a moron. Very disappointing.

[El Gato]

NO MORE BLOOD FOR ISLAM!

There will probably be lots more blood. Most of it formerly inside Islamic extremists, one may hope, but there will be more.

[John Farson]

Read the above post where Tolkien actually mentions his politics. His view of government is more libertarian than conservative.

[300winmag]

Right. he lived in a time where the rural English countryside was being transformed from agriculture to industry... he found it ugly. So do I. Was he a green? - Not in the way greens are today. But he loved rural life, and would not have enjoyed the cities and their skylines or modern lifestyle. What he saw in the 30s was only the start of it.

Tolkien also saw trench warfare in WW1. The battles in LOTR are probably an "improvement" over what he experienced. Then to come back to rural England, and the world of academe that he loved, would seem like a return to paradise. Who would want to see even one bit of that changed?

I think Tolkien knew he was seeing the end of an Age in his personal world, just as it was ending in the outside world. There would be another Age to follow, but no guarantee that anyone would like it.

[Rastus]

Thanks for the insight, guys. Tolkien sounds like a pretty complex individual, and I feel better about him thanks to this information. I need to read more of his works.