Turns out techno-fascists sure love naming their companies after Tolkien shit.
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Around the time the Return of the King film came out, a friend raised concerns about the trilogy's glorifying of whiteness, its othering and erasure of people of color, Aragorn saying "men of the West," etc.
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Because I loved Tolkien and was still ignorant about how media actually shapes our cultural values, I reacted with some defensiveness. I was so wrong.
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If an asshole like Palmer Luckey thinks Anduril (Aragorn's sword, "Flame of the West"
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