but they don't get that it was mostly written due to Tolkien's overwhelming disgust with the World Wars
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and they most closely resemble all the petty shitty bad guys Tolkien gives voice to
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Yeah if Tolkien could come back he would give the Wachowskis a mild conservative side eye >
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> and then join them in punching Nazis who use their work as a guide
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I'm pretty amused that pretty much all artists including conservatives like Tolkien hate Nazis.
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Everybody hates Nazis they're the fucking worst
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Tolkien at his worst was a chauvinist who still saw that angry violent chauvinism is weakness
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Like The Paranoid Style says, this contradictory view of enemies as powerless yet omnipotent
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Exterminating "inferior" cultures bc you're actually terrified of them outcompeting you
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Lewis and Tolkien agreed on that point Lewis made in The Four Loves, about patriotism
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Loving your country because it's the best most powerful country is the opposite of patriotism
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It's not loving your country, it's loving status and power
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and implies that if your country should weaken you will jump ship for the next big empire
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