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"Lord of the Rings" meant much to me in my early adolescence, but I have not reread it since then and have no current plans to do so.
Nevertheless, this piece's claim that LOTR should not be dismissed as simplistic reaction fascinated me.
This fascination stems in part from views I already espoused regarding the political potency of fantasy and magic in the arts and literature.
For example...
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/tolkien-against-the-grain/
#LordOfTheRings #Tolkien #Fantasy #Books #Literature #GerryCanavan #BritishLiterature #EnglishLiterature
#GerryCanavan #wapo . . .and sometimes a cigar is just a cigar
If one looks long enough, everything is prejudiced
The racist literary origins of Indiana Jones https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/06/28/indiana-jones-racism-books/