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    1. Selesbian Guildtrans‏ @ladygolem 6 Jan 2015

      lotr: dwarves = jews, elves = christians, gondor = rome, hobbits = good ol' english folk, orcs = anyone who isn't white

      4 replies 3 retweets 2 likes
    2.  🏔 ⛰ 🌋 🗻‏ @endlesstunnels 6 Jan 2015
      Replying to @ladygolem

      @ladygolem tolkien hated allegory

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    3. Chaos‏ @chaosprime 6 Jan 2015
      Replying to @endlesstunnels

      @endlesstunnels …so he just constructed a setting according to how it seemed natural to him for matters to be arranged. @ladygolem

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    4. Chaos‏ @chaosprime 6 Jan 2015
      Replying to @chaosprime

      @endlesstunnels if he'd been doing intentional allegory, he might've noticed all the racism sooner. (he did, much too late.) @ladygolem

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    5.  🏔 ⛰ 🌋 🗻‏ @endlesstunnels 6 Jan 2015
      Replying to @chaosprime

      @chaosprime @ladygolem his intention was to explore linguistics/explore the narrative style of historic texts, not build metaphor

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    6. Chaos‏ @chaosprime 6 Jan 2015
      Replying to @endlesstunnels

      @endlesstunnels oh, well, obviously authorial intent is a surefire prophylaxis against accidentally creating any metaphors. @ladygolem

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    7.  🏔 ⛰ 🌋 🗻‏ @endlesstunnels 6 Jan 2015
      Replying to @chaosprime

      @chaosprime it is if we're explicitly talking about the author's intentions @ladygolem

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    8. Chaos‏ @chaosprime 6 Jan 2015
      Replying to @endlesstunnels

      @endlesstunnels you're literally the only one doing that. the rest of us are talking about his text. @ladygolem

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    9.  🏔 ⛰ 🌋 🗻‏ @endlesstunnels 6 Jan 2015
      Replying to @chaosprime

       🏔 ⛰ 🌋 🗻 Retweeted Selesbian Guildtrans

      @chaosprime https://twitter.com/ladygolem/status/552534499461193729 … @ladygolem

       🏔 ⛰ 🌋 🗻 added,

      Selesbian Guildtrans @ladygolem
      tolkien's antisemitism is particularly infuriating bc he thought he was being an ally in the most patronising way
      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      Chaos‏ @chaosprime 6 Jan 2015
      Replying to @endlesstunnels

      @endlesstunnels (detagging @​ladygolem) this asserts that he *did* write a book encoding that allegory, not that he *intended* to. text.

      11:22 AM - 6 Jan 2015
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        2.  🏔 ⛰ 🌋 🗻‏ @endlesstunnels 6 Jan 2015
          Replying to @chaosprime

          @chaosprime it asserts he was a patronizing ally (when that was the only kind of ally the persecuted european jews could hope for). author.

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        3. Chaos‏ @chaosprime 6 Jan 2015
          Replying to @endlesstunnels

          @endlesstunnels right. so yes, that other thread, separate from this thread about the semantics of LotR, discusses the author.

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        4. Chaos‏ @chaosprime 6 Jan 2015
          Replying to @chaosprime

          @endlesstunnels caring nothing for his intentions. nobody cares whether somebody *intended* to patronize.

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        5. Chaos‏ @chaosprime 6 Jan 2015
          Replying to @chaosprime

          @endlesstunnels i hope you have some recognition of what nonsense this "european jews could only hope for patronizing allies" line is.

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        6.  🏔 ⛰ 🌋 🗻‏ @endlesstunnels 6 Jan 2015
          Replying to @chaosprime

          @chaosprime i hope you're willing to tell a 1930s european jew to reject an english ally for being too "patronizing"

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        7. Chaos‏ @chaosprime 6 Jan 2015
          Replying to @endlesstunnels

          .@endlesstunnels oh look, Big Ally logic. don't criticize or you might not get helped from on high any more, and *then* where would you be?

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        8.  🏔 ⛰ 🌋 🗻‏ @endlesstunnels 6 Jan 2015
          Replying to @chaosprime

          @chaosprime oh look: i'm stripping a philologist born in 1892 of historical context so i can pillory him on social media for an afternoon

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        9. Chaos‏ @chaosprime 6 Jan 2015
          Replying to @endlesstunnels

          @endlesstunnels right, it's not like my life's work is inextricably operationally entwined with his legacy or nothin'.

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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