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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Jun 2019

      7. So it's been true from Frankenstein to Game of Thrones that it's fantastika that has consistently provided us with the language for talking about public life: Think of 1984, The Handmaid's Tale, Star Wars, Harry Potter.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Jun 2019

      8. The reception of Lord of the Rings offers a good example of how different political ideologies (sometimes waring ones) can find the allegorical suggestiveness of fantastika useful.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Jun 2019

      9. In the early 1960s, National Review editor Frank Meyer (the founder of what is now called fusionist conservatism) became a big Tolkien fan. He thought the orcs were a symbol of "the reds." He encouraged Guy Davenport to read, who passed along the enthusiasm to Hugh Kenner.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Jun 2019

      10. Here are some 1963 letters from Davenport to Kenner, sharing Meyer's ideas about Lord of the Rings as an anti-communist allegory. Tolkien of course was pointedly hostile to all allegorical readings.pic.twitter.com/HIv93a8rnA

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Jun 2019

      11. Kenner caught the Tolkien bug and toyed with the idea of using a quote from Lord of the Rings to open the big critical book he was working on The Pound Era. The idea being that Tolkien was a popular version of Pound's project of recuperating tradition.pic.twitter.com/NvCOoMFNNC

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Jun 2019

      12. Interesting, Kenner also notice that there was no paperback version of Lord of the Rings. He tried to push his publisher (Beacon) to do the book. If they had, they would've made millions. In actuality, the lack of paperback led to a pirated edition from Ace.

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Jun 2019

      13. But the National Review rightists weren't the only ones interested in Tolkien. The pirated Ace edition (published using a loophole in copyright law) carried an introduction by Peter Beagle which claimed Lord of the Rings for countercultural environmentalism.

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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Jun 2019

      14. The thing with allegories is that they can be read in different ways, and its easy for competing factions to repurpose them for different ends. Were orcs evil reds or rapacious industrialists?

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    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Jun 2019

      15. All of which is to say that it's natural to use fantastika to describe the world, so @paulkrugman & @mattyglesias reference Asimov's Foundation, resistance liberals Harry Potter, feminists Handmaid's Tale, Bernie supporters Dune, & NR types Tolkien.

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      Replying to @AynaE2 @paulkrugman @mattyglesias

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          Hail the Jeeternal Champion, Heero of a Thousand Burns.

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