Re: 'The Lord of the Rings' Is Not the Far Right's Playground
Schlomo Goldberg <[email protected]> Fri, 11 Oct 2024 18:43:06 -0000 (UTC)
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Steve Hayes <[email protected]> writes: > 'The Lord of the Rings' Is Not the Far Right's Playground (extract) Are you sure Tolkien wasn't far right? I mean, he definitely wrote how Western European-looking people were protecting their homelands from hordes of nigg... I mean, orcs. Aragorn was Dúnedain: > In J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth writings, the Dúnedain > (/ˈduːnɛdaɪn/; singular: Dúnadan, "Man of the West") were a race of > Men, also known as the Númenóreans or Men of Westernesse (translated > from the Sindarin term).