One year before the blacklisting of the Hollywood Ten by HUAC and the election of Joe McCarthy to the Senate in 1947, six years before the execution of the Rosenbergs
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And who, therefore, although he hated Hitler deeply (as one must, to avoid going to hell) also hated the Allies and Churchill and avoided ever saying anything nice about them and got really fucking mad when people said Churchill was Gandalf or whatever
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He especially hated those Home Guards assholes like Orwell Bunch of cringey dudes too old to fight in the war for real so they had to go around cosplaying as soldiers and bullying their neighbors to feel like they were "doing their part"
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Actually been in the trenches and losing childhood friends to it is a very understandable reason to be anti-war!
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Orwell fought too, but he went to volunteer in someone else's war (the Spanish Civil War) rather than being drafted, and that's a very different mindset
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It would be cheap to say this is because Tolkien had fought in WWI, but I think there's a fundamental truth to it. Orwell was an idealist to his bones, he really did need some grand cause to fight for. Tolkien was burnt out on crusades, imo.
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And there's some things where each of them had extremely valuable points and fears! But I feel like Orwell always was unable to free himself from the belief that the glorious war for justice was coming, and that victory was assured so it was about what kind of victory.
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